Yarnbury Castle

#3362 among destinations in the United Kingdom

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Yarnbury Castle is the site of a multiphase, multivallate Iron Age hillfort near the village of Steeple Langford, Wiltshire, England. The site covers an area of 28.5 acres, and was extensively surveyed and investigated by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England in 1991, with finds of Iron Age and Romano-British pottery, Iron Age and Roman coins, and burials of human remains. There is much evidence of prolonged and extensive settlement of the site, including evidence of around 130 structures of various sizes, most probably representing a mix of round houses, pits, and other features. ()

Alternative names: Height: 548 ftCoordinates: 51°9'46"N, 1°57'3"W

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Yarnbury Castle – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Stonehenge Cursus, St Giles' Church, Bush Barrow, Normanton Down Barrows.

5.6 miE
Archaeological site
Stonehenge Cursus, Stonehenge
144 min walk • The Stonehenge Cursus is a large Neolithic cursus monument on Salisbury plain, near to Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England. It is roughly 3 kilometres long and between 100 metres and 150 metres wide.
6.6 miNW
Church
St Giles' Church
169 min walk • St Giles' Church in the deserted village of Imber, Wiltshire, England, was built in the late 13th or early 14th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade I listed building, and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
5 miE
Archaeological site
Bush Barrow, Stonehenge
129 min walk • Bush Barrow is a site of the early British Bronze Age, at the western end of the Normanton Down Barrows cemetery. It is among the most important sites of the Stonehenge complex, having produced some of the most spectacular grave goods in Britain.
5.3 miE
Archaeological site
Normanton Down Barrows, Stonehenge
134 min walk • Normanton Down is a Neolithic and Bronze Age barrow cemetery located about 0.6 miles south of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England.
5.4 miE
Archaeological site
Stonehenge Landscape, Stonehenge
139 min walk • The Stonehenge Landscape is a property of The National Trust, located on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. The estate covers 2,100 acres surrounding the neolithic monument of Stonehenge, which is administered by English Heritage.
5.6 miE
Ruins, Mysterious site, Historical place
Stonehenge, Amesbury
143 min walk • Stonehenge Avenue is an ancient avenue on Salisbury plain, Wiltshire, England. It is part of the Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites UNESCO World Heritage Site.
4 miN
Archaeological site
White Barrow
103 min walk • White Barrow is a large Neolithic long barrow just below the crest of Copehill Down on Salisbury Plain, just south of the village of Tilshead in Wiltshire, England. It is a scheduled monument, and is owned by the National Trust. It was the first ancient monument to be purchased by the National Trust.
3.9 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Forest
Grovely Wood
101 min walk • Grovely Wood is one of the largest woodlands in southern Wiltshire, England. It stands on a chalk ridge above the River Wylye in Barford St Martin parish, to the southwest of the village of Great Wishford, within the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
5.2 miNW
Archaeological site
Knook Castle
132 min walk • Knook Castle is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort on Knook Down, near the village of Knook in Wiltshire, England, but within the civil parish of Upton Lovell.
5.1 miE
Archaeological site
Cursus Barrows, Stonehenge
131 min walk • The Cursus Barrows is the name given to a Neolithic and Bronze Age round barrow cemetery located mostly south of the western end of the Stonehenge Cursus. The cemetery contains around 18 round barrows scattered along an east-to-west ridge, although some of the mounds are no longer visible.
5.5 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
North Wessex Downs, Stonehenge
140 min walk • The North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty is located in the English counties of Berkshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire.