W. H. Laverton's Ground, Westbury

Name: W. H. Laverton's Ground
Address: Westbury, United Kingdom

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W. H. Laverton's Ground is a historic cricket ground in Westbury, Wiltshire. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1888, when W. H. Laverton's XI played O. G. Radcliffe's XI. The ground hosted a single first-class match in 1890, which saw W. H. Laverton's XI playing the touring Australians. ()

Coordinates: 51°15'14"N, 2°10'59"W

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Westbury United Kingdom

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W. H. Laverton's Ground – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Westbury White Horse, Warminster Town Park, Edington Priory, St Denys' Church.

1.6 miE
Hill figure originally cut in the 1600s
Westbury White Horse, Westbury
42 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.
3.4 miS
City hall
Warminster Town Park, Warminster
87 min walk • Warminster Town Hall is a former municipal building in the Market Place of Warminster, Wiltshire, England. The structure, which served as the headquarters of Warminster Urban District Council, is a Grade II listed building.
3.7 miNE
Monastery, Church
Edington Priory
95 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.
3.1 miS
Church
St Denys' Church, Warminster
80 min walk • St Denys' Church is the parish church of the town of Warminster, Wiltshire, England, and is the town's oldest church. Begun in the 11th century, rebuilt in the 14th and restored in the 19th, it is a Grade II* listed building.
3.3 miS
Concerts and shows, Theater
Warminster Athenaeum, Warminster
86 min walk • Warminster Athenaeum is a Victorian theatre in Warminster, Wiltshire, England, and a Grade II listed building. Built in Jacobean style in 1857/8 to designs by William Jervis Stent, it is held in trust on behalf of the residents of Warminster by a charitable trust and is Wiltshire’s oldest working theatre.
1.9 miE
Archaeological site
Bratton Castle
48 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.
4.1 miSW
Forts and castles
Cley Hill
105 min walk • Cley Hill is a prominent hill to the west of Warminster in Wiltshire, England. Its summit has a commanding view of the Wiltshire / Somerset county boundary, at 244 metres elevation. The land is in Corsley parish and is owned by the National Trust.
1.3 miSW
Church
St. Mary's Church
34 min walk • St Mary's Church in Old Dilton, Wiltshire, England was built in the 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 26 April 1973, and was vested in the Trust on 6 September 1974.
4.5 miW
Church
Church of St George
115 min walk • The Church of St George is a Church of England parish church in Beckington, Somerset, England. It is a Norman church, dating from the 14th century. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.
3.4 miSE
Archaeological site
Battlesbury Camp
87 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.
3.6 miSW
Church
St Margaret's
93 min walk • St Margaret's, Corsley, is the Church of England parish church of Corsley in Wiltshire, England. In 1968 the church was designated as Grade II listed. The church was built in 1833 by John Leachman on the site of an earlier church. The previous church had been dedicated to St James from the 16th to 18th century.