White Barrow

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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. ()

Coordinates: 51°13'15"N, 1°57'16"W

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White Barrow – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

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

6 miSE
Archaeological site
Stonehenge Cursus, Stonehenge
154 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.
4.3 miW
Church
St Giles' Church
110 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.
6.2 miSE
Archaeological site
Bush Barrow, Stonehenge
159 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.
6.4 miSE
Archaeological site
Normanton Down Barrows, Stonehenge
164 min walk • Normanton Down is a Neolithic and Bronze Age barrow cemetery located about 0.6 miles south of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England.
6.2 miSE
Archaeological site
Stonehenge Landscape, Stonehenge
158 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.
6.6 miNE
Archaeological site
Casterley Camp
169 min walk • Casterley Camp is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort in Wiltshire, England, about 1+1⁄2 miles southwest of the village of Upavon. The site comprises a large Iron Age/Romano-British enclosure, possibly non-defensive in function, and incomplete. It was partially excavated in the 19th century.
4 miS
Archaeological site
Yarnbury Castle
103 min walk • Yarnbury Castle is the site of a multiphase, multivallate Iron Age hillfort near the village of Steeple Langford, Wiltshire, England.
5.3 miNW
Hiking, Hiking trail
Wessex Ridgeway
136 min walk • The Wessex Ridgeway is a long-distance footpath in southwest England. It runs 136 miles from Marlborough in Wiltshire to Lyme Regis in Dorset, via the northern edge of Salisbury Plain and across Cranborne Chase AONB. The footpath was opened in 1994.
4.8 miW
Archaeological site
Knook Castle
124 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.
5.7 miSE
Archaeological site
Cursus Barrows, Stonehenge
146 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.
6.3 miSE
Observatories and planetariums
Archaeoastronomy and Stonehenge, Stonehenge
160 min walk • The prehistoric monument of Stonehenge has long been studied for its possible connections with ancient astronomy. The site is aligned in the direction of the sunrise of the summer solstice and the sunset of the winter solstice.