Fonthill Lake

#3799 among destinations in the United Kingdom

Nature, Natural attraction, Lake

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Fonthill Lake is a lake in southwest Wiltshire, England. It lies just to the south of the village of Fonthill Bishop, east of the village of Fonthill Gifford, and northeast of Fonthill Abbey. The lake is 1.6 km long and approximately 100 m wide at its maximum breadth. ()

Length: 4265 ftWidth: 328 ftElevation: 417 ft a.s.l.Coordinates: 51°5'12"N, 2°5'20"W

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Fonthill Lake – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Old Wardour Castle, Fovant Badges, Vale of Wardour, Philipps House.

3.5 miS
Historical place, Forts and castles, History museum
Old Wardour Castle, Tisbury
89 min walk • Wardour Castle is a ruined 14th-century castle at Wardour, on the boundaries of the civil parishes of Tisbury and Donhead St Andrew in the English county of Wiltshire, about 15 miles west of Salisbury.
5.3 miSE
Memorial
Fovant Badges
136 min walk • The Fovant Badges are a set of regimental badges cut into a chalk hill, Fovant Down, near Fovant, in southwest Wiltshire, England. They are located between Salisbury and Shaftesbury on the A30 road in the Nadder valley; or approximately 1⁄2 mile southeast of Fovant.
2.2 miS
Valley
Vale of Wardour, Tisbury
57 min walk • The Vale of Wardour encompasses the valley of the River Nadder in the county of Wiltshire, England.
4.5 miE
Museum, History museum
Philipps House
116 min walk • Philipps House is an early nineteenth-century Neo-Grecian country house at Dinton, overlooking the Nadder valley about 8 miles west of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.
7.2 miSE
Village
Bowerchalke
183 min walk • Bowerchalke is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 9 miles southwest of Salisbury. It is in the south of the county, about 1 mile from the boundary with Dorset and 2 miles from that with Hampshire.
6.3 miSE
Sport, Sport venue
Gurston Down Motorsport Hillclimb
162 min walk • The Gurston Down Speed Hill Climb is a hillclimb in Broad Chalke, Wiltshire, England, organised by the South Western Centre of the British Automobile Racing Club.