St Mary's Church, Shrewton

Name: St Mary's Church
Address: Shrewton, United Kingdom

#2 among attractions in Shrewton

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St Mary's Church in the Maddington area of Shrewton, Wiltshire, in the west of England, was built in the late 12th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. It was declared redundant on 29 December 1975, and was vested in the Trust on 26 July 1979. ()

Built: XII centuryCoordinates: 51°11'36"N, 1°54'20"W

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Shrewton United Kingdom

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

Nearby attractions include: Stonehenge Cursus, Bush Barrow, Normanton Down Barrows, Stonehenge Landscape.

3.5 miE
Archaeological site
Stonehenge Cursus, Stonehenge
89 min walk • The Stonehenge Cursus is a large Neolithic cursus monument on Salisbury plain, near to Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England. It is roughly 3 kilometres long and between 100 metres and 150 metres wide.
3.4 miSE
Archaeological site
Bush Barrow, Stonehenge
88 min walk • Bush Barrow is a site of the early British Bronze Age, at the western end of the Normanton Down Barrows cemetery. It is among the most important sites of the Stonehenge complex, having produced some of the most spectacular grave goods in Britain.
3.6 miSE
Archaeological site
Normanton Down Barrows, Stonehenge
93 min walk • Normanton Down is a Neolithic and Bronze Age barrow cemetery located about 0.6 miles south of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England.
3.5 miE
Archaeological site
Stonehenge Landscape, Stonehenge
90 min walk • The Stonehenge Landscape is a property of The National Trust, located on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. The estate covers 2,100 acres surrounding the neolithic monument of Stonehenge, which is administered by English Heritage.
3.6 miE
Ruins, Mysterious site, Historical place
Stonehenge, Amesbury
93 min walk • Stonehenge Avenue is an ancient avenue on Salisbury plain, Wiltshire, England. It is part of the Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites UNESCO World Heritage Site.
2.8 miNW
Archaeological site
White Barrow
73 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.
2.9 miSW
Archaeological site
Yarnbury Castle
74 min walk • Yarnbury Castle is the site of a multiphase, multivallate Iron Age hillfort near the village of Steeple Langford, Wiltshire, England.
3 miE
Archaeological site
Cursus Barrows, Stonehenge
78 min walk • The Cursus Barrows is the name given to a Neolithic and Bronze Age round barrow cemetery located mostly south of the western end of the Stonehenge Cursus. The cemetery contains around 18 round barrows scattered along an east-to-west ridge, although some of the mounds are no longer visible.
4.8 miE
Archaeological site
Vespasian's Camp, Stonehenge
123 min walk • Vespasian's Camp is an Iron Age hillfort just west of the town of Amesbury, Wiltshire, England. The hillfort is less than 3 kilometres from the Neolithic and Bronze Age site of Stonehenge, and was built on a hill next to the Stonehenge Avenue; it has the River Avon on its southern side and the A303 road on its northern edge.
3.8 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
North Wessex Downs, Stonehenge
97 min walk • The North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty is located in the English counties of Berkshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire.
3.6 miE
Observatories and planetariums
Archaeoastronomy and Stonehenge, Stonehenge
92 min walk • The prehistoric monument of Stonehenge has long been studied for its possible connections with ancient astronomy. The site is aligned in the direction of the sunrise of the summer solstice and the sunset of the winter solstice.