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Located in Edington, Wiltshire, South West England, England
Less than a mile away.
Founded by the Bishop of Winchester, William Edington, in 1332. Edington Priory was built between 1352 to 1361. Every August a festival of church music is held there. Edington Priory is a short walk from the battlefield...
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Located in Westbury, Wiltshire, South West England, England
Approximately 1.8 miles away.
Hillfort above Westbury White Horse and overlooking the town of Westbury. Built over 2000 years ago. In the middle of the hillfort is a 5000 year old long barrow. On the edge of Salisbury Plain with spectacular views acr...
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Located in Westbury, Wiltshire, South West England, England
Approximately 2.0 miles away.
On the edge of Salisbury Plain in the North Wessex Downs AONB. Horse we see today dates from eighteenth century. Possibly on the site of a much older horse. One of many white horses carved into the Wiltshire chalk downla...
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Located in Devizes, Wiltshire, South West England, England
Approximately 6.3 miles away.
The world's steepest flight of locks. Part of the Kennet and Avon Canal by Devizes. Owing to the steepness of the land along this strecth of the Kennet and Avon Canal, the engineer John Rennie was unable to use standard...
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Located in Devizes, Wiltshire, South West England, England
Approximately 7.0 miles away.
Dismantled by the Parliamentarians during the English Civil War. Devizes Castle was rebuilt in the nineteenth century by the Leach family. Today, it's privately owned and [b]not open to the public[/b]. The satellite imag...
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Located in Devizes, Wiltshire, South West England, England
Approximately 7.0 miles away.
By Devizes Market Cross and Marketplace and Wiltshire Heritage Museum. Across the road from Devizes Town Hall. Pevsner wrote of St John's Church: 'a major Norman chruch, dominated by a mighty crossing tower with round st...
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Located in Devizes, Wiltshire, South West England, England
Approximately 7.0 miles away.
The Wiltshire Heritage Museum, together with its associated Library and Art Gallery, holds collections covering the archaeology, recent history, natural history and art of Wiltshire. Includes what are arguably some of th...
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Located in Devizes, Wiltshire, South West England, England
Approximately 7.1 miles away.
Located in the historic market town of Devizes in Wiltshire. Wadworth Brewery was founded in 1875. Every day shire horses and dray men deliver casks to local pubs. The brewery also boasts its own cooper, one of only eigh...
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Located in Devizes, Wiltshire, South West England, England
Approximately 7.1 miles away.
Devizes Marketplace is the largest in the west of England. Formed from the outer bailey of Devizes Castle (now a private residence). It contains the Market Cross, built in 1814 by a former Prime Minister and on its east...
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Located in Tilshead, Wiltshire, South West England, England
Approximately 7.2 miles away.
About 300 square miles (780 square km) of chalk plateau in Wiltshire and Hampshire. Sandwiched between two Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. North Wiltshire Downs AONB to the north and Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshi...
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Located in South West England, England
Approximately 7.2 miles away.
Canal built to connect Bristol City to Reading (and via Reading up the River Thames to London). The world's steepest flight of locks at Caen Hill are part of the Kennet and Avon Canal. Canal linking the River Avon (Glouc...
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Located in Devizes, Wiltshire, South West England, England
Approximately 7.3 miles away.
Excellent small museum exploring the history of the Kennet and Avon Canal. Takes visitor from the eighteenth century to the modern day. Describes how the canal was conceived, built, used. Outlines its decline with the co...
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Located in Rode, Somerset, South West England, England
Approximately 7.4 miles away.
Situated close to the Somerset/Wiltshire border. Dates from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Restored in Victorian times. Rode Church once the centre of a wealthy community based on the wool trade. Rode had up to...
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Located in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, South West England, England
Approximately 7.9 miles away.
Bradford on Avon Tithe Barn has one of the largest stone roofs in Europe. Part of the estate of Shaftesbury Abbey in Dorset. Built in the fourteenth century. The Bradford on Avon Tithe Barn was used to collect 'tithes' o...
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Located in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, South West England, England
Approximately 7.9 miles away.
Grange of the Abbess of Shaftesbury. Abbess given the land in 1001AD by King Ethelred. Working farm until the early 1970s. Yard bought and restored by the Bradford on Avon Preservation Trust in 2000. Part of Barton Farm...
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Located in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, South West England, England
Approximately 7.9 miles away.
Crosses the River Avon (Gloucestershire to Bristol) in the centre of town. Originally a medieval packhorse bridge. Two thirteenth century arches still survive. Widened in the seventeenth century. Lock up or jail added at...
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Located in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, South West England, England
Approximately 7.9 miles away.
A short walk from the centre of Bradford-on-Avon. Country Park contains Barton Grange Farm buildings and the fourteenth century tithe barn. Country walks along the the River Avon (Gloucestershire to Bristol) and the Kenn...
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