St Nicholas's Church, Avebury

Name: St Nicholas's Church
Address: Avebury, United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 117 929 1766

#7 among attractions in Avebury

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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. Services continue to be held at the church a few times a year. ()

Built: XV centuryCoordinates: 51°27'39"N, 1°51'34"W

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Avebury United Kingdom

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+44 117 929 1766

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Nearby attractions include: West Kennet Long Barrow, Silbury Hill, Kennet Avenue, Barbury Castle.

3.6 miS
Large neolithic chambered tomb remains
West Kennet Long Barrow, Avebury
93 min walk • Nestled within the lush, rolling hills of Wiltshire, England, the West Kennet Long Barrow stands as a silent witness to prehistoric times. This ancient Neolithic tomb, one of the largest and most well-preserved in Britain, offers a rare glimpse into the distant past...
3.1 miS
Manmade mound from prehistoric times
Silbury Hill, Avebury
80 min walk • Silbury Hill is a prehistoric artificial chalk mound near Avebury in the English county of Wiltshire. It is part of the Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites UNESCO World Heritage Site.
2.6 miS
Avenue of prehistoric standing stones
Kennet Avenue, Avebury
68 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.
3.7 miNE
Archaeological site, Forts and castles
Barbury Castle
94 min walk • Barbury Castle is a scheduled hill fort situated in Wiltshire, England. It is one of several such forts found along the ancient Ridgeway route.
2.2 miS
Historical place, Garden, Museum
Avebury Manor, Avebury
57 min walk • Avebury Manor & Garden is a National Trust property consisting of a Grade I listed early-16th-century manor house and its surrounding garden.
2 miNE
Memorial
Hackpen White Horse
51 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.
3.6 miS
Archaeological site
The Sanctuary, Avebury
93 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.
4.1 miSW
Memorial
Lansdowne Monument
105 min walk • The Lansdowne Monument, also known as the Cherhill Monument, near Cherhill in Wiltshire, England, is a 38-metre stone obelisk erected in 1845 by the 3rd Marquis of Lansdowne to the designs of Sir Charles Barry to commemorate his ancestor, Sir William Petty.
1.5 miSW
Archaeological site, View point, Historical place
Windmill Hill, Avebury
40 min walk • Windmill Hill is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure in the English county of Wiltshire, part of the Avebury World Heritage Site, about 1 mile northwest of Avebury. Enclosing an area of 21 acres, it is the largest known causewayed enclosure in Britain.
2.2 miS
, Archaeological site
Stonehenge, Avebury
56 min walk • Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Wiltshire, England. The WHS covers two large areas of land separated by about 15 miles, rather than a specific monument or building.
2.7 miS
Archaeological site
Falkner's Circle, Avebury
70 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.