Marlborough College, Marlborough

Name: Marlborough College
Address: Marlborough, United Kingdom

#8 among attractions in Marlborough

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Marlborough College is a public school for pupils aged 13 to 18 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England. Founded in 1843 for the sons of Church of England clergy, it is now co-educational. For the academic year 2015/16, Marlborough charged £9,610 per term for day pupils, making it the most expensive day school in the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference – the association of British independent schools. Fees for full boarders are up to £12,985 per term, the 28th most expensive HMC boarding school. ()

Alternative names: Coordinates: 51°24'60"N, 1°44'14"W

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Nearby attractions include: St Mary's Church, Kennet Avenue, Savernake Forest, West Woods.

0.5 miNE
Church
St Mary's Church, Marlborough
13 min walk • St Mary's Church is the Church of England parish church in the town of Marlborough, Wiltshire, England. The church stands at the east end of the town's High Street.
4.8 miW
Avenue of prehistoric standing stones
Kennet Avenue, Avebury
123 min walk • Kennet Avenue or West Kennet Avenue is a prehistoric site in the English county of Wiltshire. It was an avenue of two parallel lines of stones 25m wide and 2.5 km in length, which ran between the Neolithic sites of Avebury and The Sanctuary.
2.7 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Forest
Savernake Forest
70 min walk • Savernake Forest stands on a Cretaceous chalk plateau between Marlborough and Great Bedwyn in Wiltshire, England. Its area is approximately 4,500 acres. Most of the forest lies within the civil parish of Savernake.
2.4 miSW
Archaeological site
West Woods, Marlborough
61 min walk • West Woods is a wood about 2 ¹⁄₂ miles southwest of the market town of Marlborough in the English county of Wiltshire, United Kingdom. Its area is approximately 957 acres. It is open to the public, and is popular with visitors in the Spring, when bluebells cover the forest floor.
4.1 miW
Archaeological site
The Sanctuary, Avebury
104 min walk • The Sanctuary was a stone and timber circle near the village of Avebury in the south-western English county of Wiltshire. Excavation has revealed the location of the 58 stone sockets and 62 post-holes.
4.7 miSE
Canal
Bruce Tunnel, Marlborough
119 min walk • The Bruce Tunnel is on the summit pound of the Kennet and Avon Canal between Wootton Top Lock and Crofton Locks in Wiltshire, England. The tunnel is 502 yards long.
3.7 miS
Canal
Wootton Rivers Lock
94 min walk • Wootton Rivers Lock, also called Wootton Rivers Bottom Lock, is a lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal at Wootton Rivers, Wiltshire, England. Wootton Rivers Bottom Lock was built during the canal's construction between 1794 and 1810. The lock has a rise/fall of 8 ft 0 in.
4.7 miS
Canal
Jones's Mill, Pewsey
119 min walk • Jones's Mill is an 11.6 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Pewsey in Wiltshire, notified in 1975. The site is managed as a nature reserve by Wiltshire Wildlife Trust.
4.6 miW
Archaeological site
Falkner's Circle, Avebury
118 min walk • Falkner's Circle was a stone circle near the village of Avebury in the south-western English county of Wiltshire. Built from twelve sarsen megaliths, it measured about 37 metres in diameter, although only one of these stones remains standing.
2.1 miW
Archaeological site
The Devil's Den, Marlborough
53 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.
3.7 miSE
Canal
Wootton Top Lock
94 min walk • Wootton Top Lock is a lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal at Wootton Rivers, Wiltshire, England. The lock has a rise/fall of 8 ft 0 in. East of this lock is the summit of the canal at 450 ft above sea level. Downstream in the same parish are the locks of Brimslade, Heathy Close, and Wootton Rivers Bottom. It is a Grade II listed structure.