St Giles' Church

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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. It was declared redundant on 1 November 2002, and was vested in the Trust on 14 September 2005. ()

Built: XIII centuryCoordinates: 51°14'4"N, 2°3'5"W

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St Giles' Church – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Westbury White Horse, Edington Priory, Bratton Castle, Church of St Peter and St Paul.

4.6 miNW
Hill figure originally cut in the 1600s
Westbury White Horse, Westbury
117 min walk • Westbury or Bratton White Horse is a hill figure on the escarpment of Salisbury Plain, approximately 1.5 mi east of Westbury in Wiltshire, England.
3.9 miNW
Monastery, Church
Edington Priory
100 min walk • Edington Priory in Wiltshire, England, was founded by William Edington, the bishop of Winchester, in 1351 in his home village of Edington, about 3+3⁄4 miles east of the town of Westbury. The priory church was consecrated in 1361 and continues in use as the parish church of Saint Mary, Saint Katharine and All Saints.
4.4 miNW
Archaeological site
Bratton Castle
113 min walk • Bratton Castle is a bivallate Iron Age built hill fort on Bratton Down, at the western edge of the Salisbury Plain escarpment. The hill fort comprises two circuits of ditch and bank which together enclose a pentagonal area of 9.3 hectares.
4.4 miSW
Church
Church of St Peter and St Paul
112 min walk • The Church of St Peter and St Paul, Heytesbury is the Church of England parish church for the parish of Heytesbury with Tytherington and Knook, Wiltshire, England. It was a collegiate church from the 12th century until 1840. The present building is largely 13th-century and is designated as Grade I listed.
4.5 miSW
Archaeological site
Battlesbury Camp
115 min walk • Battlesbury Camp is the site of an Iron Age bivallate hill fort on Battlesbury Hill near the town of Warminster in Wiltshire, South West England. Excavations and surveys at the site have uncovered various finds and archaeological evidence.
4.2 miSW
Archaeological site
Scratchbury Camp
107 min walk • Scratchbury Camp is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort on Scratchbury Hill, overlooking the Wylye valley about 1 km northeast of the village of Norton Bavant in Wiltshire, England.
4 miNW
Park
Bratton House
103 min walk • Bratton House is a grade II* listed country house in Melbourne Street, Bratton, Wiltshire, England. The house dates from 1715 and was built for Philip Ballard. It was enlarged in 1826 for the Seagram family with additional alterations in 1915 and the 1930s.
4.3 miE
Archaeological site
White Barrow
110 min walk • 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.
6.6 miSE
Archaeological site
Yarnbury Castle
169 min walk • Yarnbury Castle is the site of a multiphase, multivallate Iron Age hillfort near the village of Steeple Langford, Wiltshire, England.
2.2 miN
Hiking, Hiking trail
Wessex Ridgeway
57 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.
2.7 miS
Archaeological site
Knook Castle
70 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.