Segsbury Camp

#1421 among destinations in the United Kingdom

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Segsbury Camp or Segsbury Castle is an Iron Age hill fort on the crest of the Berkshire Downs, near the Ridgeway above Wantage, in the Vale of White Horse district of Oxfordshire, England. It is in Letcombe Regis civil parish and is also called Letcombe Castle. ()

Coordinates: 51°33'28"N, 1°26'46"W

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Segsbury Camp – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Uffington White Horse, Vale and Downland Museum, West Berkshire Golf Club, Uffington Castle.

5.3 miW
Famous hill figure and castle remains
Uffington White Horse
137 min walk • Carved into the rolling chalk hills of Oxfordshire, the Uffington White Horse is a prehistoric enigma that captivates the imagination of visitors and historians alike. This ancient hill figure, etched into the landscape over 3,000 years ago during the late Bronze Age...
2.2 miN
Specialty museum, Museum, History museum
Vale and Downland Museum, Wantage
57 min walk • The Vale and Downland Museum is a local museum in the market town of Wantage, Oxfordshire, England. Its galleries present the cultural heritage of the Vale of White Horse region around Wantage. A Victorian kitchen, Iron Age skeleton and a bust of Sir John Betjeman are amongst its attractions, along with a cafe serving home-made food.
5.4 miS
Golf
West Berkshire Golf Club
137 min walk • West Berkshire Golf Club is a golf club, located in Chaddleworth, Berkshire, England. It is located about 3 miles from Woodlands St Mary. It was established in 1975. The course was designed by Robin Stagg and Paul Simpson.
5.4 miW
Archaeological site, Forts and castles, Mysterious site
Uffington Castle
139 min walk • Uffington Castle is an early Iron Age univallate hillfort in Oxfordshire, England. It covers about 32,000 square metres and is surrounded by two earth banks separated by a ditch with an entrance in the western end.
5.4 miW
Archaeological site, View point
Dragon Hill
139 min walk • Dragon Hill is a small hillock immediately below the Uffington White Horse on the border of the civil parishes of Uffington and Woolstone in the English county of Oxfordshire. In 1974 it was transferred from Berkshire.
2.3 miN
Church
Church of St Peter and St Paul, Wantage
58 min walk • The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a Church of England parish church in Wantage, Oxfordshire. The church is a grade I listed building.
5.4 miNE
Museum
Champs Chapel Museum of East Hendred
139 min walk • The Champs Chapel Museum of East Hendred is a local village museum housed in the former Chapel of Jesus of Bethlehem, built in 1453 by Carthusian monks and now commonly called Champs Chapel, at East Hendred in the English county of Oxfordshire.
2.3 miN
Monuments and statues
Statue of Alfred the Great, Wantage
59 min walk • The statue of Alfred the Great, in the Wantage market place, was sculpted by Count Gleichen, a relative of Queen Victoria's, and unveiled on 14 July 1877 by the Prince and Princess of Wales.
6 miSE
Memorial
Leckhampstead War Memorial, Newbury and Thatcham
154 min walk • Leckhampstead War Memorial is a Grade II listed war memorial in Leckhampstead, Berkshire, which commemorates 89 local men who served in the First World War, including 17 war dead. The names of two more war casualties were added after the Second World War.
3.6 miW
Archaeological site
Seven Barrows
93 min walk • Seven Barrows is a Bronze Age bowl barrow cemetery, 4-hectare of which are designated a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest, at Upper Lambourn in the civil parish of Lambourn in the English county of Berkshire.
4.1 miE
Archaeological site
The Ridgeway
106 min walk • The Ridgeway is a ridgeway or ancient trackway described as Britain's oldest road. The section clearly identified as an ancient trackway extends from Wiltshire along the chalk ridge of the Berkshire Downs to the River Thames at the Goring Gap, part of the Icknield Way which ran...