Winterbourne Bassett Stone Circle, Avebury

#12 among attractions in Avebury

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Winterbourne Bassett Stone Circle is the remains of a stone circle near the village of Winterbourne Bassett in Wiltshire, South West England. Investigations in the 18th and 19th centuries found evidence of an outer and inner ring, and a single central stone; today six stones are visible although none remain upright. ()

Coordinates: 51°28'43"N, 1°51'59"W

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Avebury United Kingdom

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Winterbourne Bassett Stone Circle – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Silbury Hill, Kennet Avenue, Barbury Castle, Avebury Manor.

4.4 miS
Manmade mound from prehistoric times
Silbury Hill, Avebury
111 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.
3.9 miS
Avenue of prehistoric standing stones
Kennet Avenue, Avebury
100 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.
3.6 miE
Archaeological site, Forts and castles
Barbury Castle
92 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.
3.4 miS
Historical place, Garden, Museum
Avebury Manor, Avebury
88 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.
2.1 miE
Memorial
Hackpen White Horse
55 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.
4.8 miSW
Memorial
Lansdowne Monument
123 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.
2.6 miS
Archaeological site, View point, Historical place
Windmill Hill, Avebury
67 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.
1.3 miS
Church
St Nicholas's Church, Avebury
33 min walk • 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.
3.4 miS
, Archaeological site
Stonehenge, Avebury
88 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.
4 miS
Archaeological site
Falkner's Circle, Avebury
102 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.
2.2 miS
Church
Church of St Mary Magdalene, Avebury
57 min walk • The Church of St Mary Magdalene is the Anglican church in the village of Winterbourne Monkton, Wiltshire, England. It is a 19th-century rebuilding of a structure dating from the 14th century.