Barbury Castle

#637 among destinations in the United Kingdom

Archaeological site, Forts and castles

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Barbury Castle is a scheduled hill fort situated in Wiltshire, England. It is one of several such forts found along the ancient Ridgeway route. The site, which lies within the Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, has been managed as a country park by Swindon Borough Council since 1971. It is situated on Barbury Hill, a local vantage point, which, under ideal weather conditions, commands a view across to the Cotswolds and the River Severn. It has two deep defensive ditches and ramparts. The Old Ridgeway runs close by and the modern Ridgeway crosses through the castle. In the surrounding area are to be found round barrows, Celtic field systems and 18th-19th Century flint workings. ()

Coordinates: 51°29'7"N, 1°47'2"W

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

Nearby attractions include: Coate Water, Liddington Castle, Hackpen White Horse, St Nicholas's Church.

4.3 miN
Park, Nature and wildlife, Body of water
Coate Water, Swindon
110 min walk • Coate Water is a country park situated 5 km to the southeast of central Swindon, England, near junction 15 of the M4. It takes its name from its main feature, a reservoir originally built to provide water for the Wilts & Berks Canal.
4.2 miNE
Forts and castles
Liddington Castle
107 min walk • Liddington Castle, locally called Liddington Camp, is a late Bronze Age and early Iron Age univallate hill fort in the English county of Wiltshire. At 277 metres, it is the highest point in the Borough of Swindon. It is sited on a commanding high point close to the Ridgeway and covers an area of 3 hectares.
1.7 miSW
Memorial
Hackpen White Horse
44 min walk • Hackpen White Horse is a chalk hill figure of a white horse on Hackpen Hill, located below The Ridgeway on the edge of the Marlborough Downs, two miles south east of Broad Hinton, Wiltshire, England. It is one of nine white horse hill figures located in Wiltshire.
3.7 miSW
Church
St Nicholas's Church, Avebury
94 min walk • St Nicholas's Church in Berwick Bassett, Wiltshire, England dates from the early 13th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade II* listed building, and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. It was declared redundant in 1972, and was vested in the Trust the next year.
4.2 miSW
Church
Church of St Mary Magdalene, Avebury
109 min walk • The Church of St Mary Magdalene is the Anglican church in the village of Winterbourne Monkton, Wiltshire, England. It is a 19th-century rebuilding of a structure dating from the 14th century.
4.1 miS
Archaeological site
The Devil's Den, Marlborough
105 min walk • The Devil's Den or Devil's Den is a dolmen burial chamber on Fyfield Hill near Marlborough, Wiltshire, England. The chamber is part of a neolithic passage grave on Fyfield Down.
4.6 miN
Concerts and shows, Theater
Swindon Arts Centre, Swindon
117 min walk • Swindon Arts Centre is a 212-seat entertainment venue located in the Old Town area of Swindon, Wiltshire, England. It opened in 1956. The Swindon Arts Centre is situated at the heart of Swindon's Old Town on Devizes Road.
2.7 miN
Village, Area
Wroughton, Swindon
70 min walk • Wroughton is a large village and civil parish in northeast Wiltshire, England. It is part of the Borough of Swindon and lies along the A4361 road between Swindon and Avebury; the road into Swindon crosses the M4 motorway between junctions 15 and 16.
2.2 miNW
Park
Clout's Wood, Swindon
57 min walk • Clout's Wood is an 11.78 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, notified in 1951. The site is managed as a nature reserve by Wiltshire Wildlife Trust.
4.2 miNE
Archaeological site
Day House Lane Stone Circle, Swindon
109 min walk • Day House Lane Stone Circle, also known as Coate Stone Circle, is a stone circle near the hamlet of Coate, now on the southeastern edge of Swindon, in the English county of Wiltshire. Five partly buried stones remain at the site.
3.6 miW
Archaeological site
Winterbourne Bassett Stone Circle, Avebury
92 min walk • Winterbourne Bassett Stone Circle is the remains of a stone circle near the village of Winterbourne Bassett in Wiltshire, South West England.