Alton Priors
Alton Priors is a Village in the county of Wiltshire.
Alton Priors postcode: SN8 4JX
There are great places to visit near Alton Priors including some great historic monuments, ancient sites, historic buildings, country parks, lakes, parks and villages.
The area around Alton Priors boasts some of the best historic monuments including Lansdowne Monument, Cherhill White Horse, and Avebury.
The area around Alton Priors boasts some of the best ancient sites including Avebury, West Kennet Long Barrow, The Sanctuary, Silbury Hill, and Barbury Castle.
Avebury Manor is a great place to visit close to Alton Priors if you like historic buildings.
Alton Priors has some unmissable country parks nearby like Coate Water Country Park, Barbury Castle Country Park, and Lydiard Park.
There are a number of lakes near to Alton Priors including Coate Water.
The area around Alton Priors's best parks can be found at Lydiard Park.
There are a several good villages in the area around Alton Priors like Ashton Keynes.
Alton Priors History
There are some historic monuments around Alton Priors:
- Field system 275yds (250m) N of Field Barn
- Group of small enclosures on Horton Down, 910m north east of Easton Down long barrow
- Bowl barrow forming part of a cemetery 800m east of Kitchen Barrow
- Two bowl barrows 670m south east of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton Down
- All Cannings Cross, an Early Iron Age settlement site
- Cross dyke 230m south west of Cherhill Monument
- Site of an oval stone circle and part of an adjacent field system 700m SW of West Kennet long barrow.
- Four bowl barrows forming part of a cemetery 270m east of long barrow on Roughridge Hill
- Barrow S of Wansdyke
- Withy Copse ditch
- Group of three bowl barrows 250m north east of Shepherds' Shore
- Enclosure east of Baden Down Farm
- Rybury camp
- Bowl barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery situated 120m NNW of Down Barn on North Down
- Bowl barrow immediately west of the Ridgeway, 400m north east of its junction with Green Street
- The Sanctuary, Overton Hill
- Section of the Wansdyke
- Bowl barrow 950m SSW of Beckhampton Plantation, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton Down
- Bowl barrow in The Belt, 350m north east of Hill Barn
- Bowl barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery 120m north of the Devizes to Beckhampton road on North Down
- Bowl barrow 880m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Lidbury Camp, associated trackways and bowl barrow, on Littlecott Down
- Barrow on Avebury Down, S of track from Avebury
- Bowl barrow 800m south-east of Tanhill Penning
- Pair of round barrows 400m west of the Ridgeway, forming part of a round barrow cemetery situated on Avebury Down
- Saucer barrow 600m west of Beckhampton Buildings
- Pair of bell barrows and a pair of bowl barrows forming part of a barrow cemetery at Baltic Farm
- Bowl barrow 190m north east of Nolands Farm, Yatesbury
- Boundary earthwork on Upavon Down
- Field system north-east of Chisenbury Field Barn
- Bowl barrow 70m north of Green Street and east of the Avebury henge monument
- Knap Hill camp near Alton Priors
- Green Bank bowl barrow, 230m east of the Avebury henge monument
- Four earthwork enclosures on All Cannings Down
- Bowl barrow 400m west of Cooks Plantation
- Bowl barrow 750m south-west of Manor Farm: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery
- Bowl barrow east of the Ridgeway forming part of the Overton Hill Bronze Age round barrow cemetery.
- Pair of bowl barrows forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Allington Down
- Pair of round barrows 200m SSE of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Linear boundary earthwork and associated field system on Cherhill Down
- Bowl barrow 690m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Enclosure on Black Heath Down
- Round barrow cemetery 400m south of Avebury henge monument on Waden Hill
- Pair of bowl barrows 150m north of the Wansdyke on All Cannings Down
- Bowl barrow on Kitchen Barrow Hill
- Remains of `Falkner's Circle', a Neolithic stone circle 180m east of the West Kennet Avenue
- Eleven round barrows 1000m north of Baltic Farm forming part of a barrow cemetery, and a probable enclosed Iron Age farmstead on North Down
- Martinsell Hill camp
- Pair of round barrows forming part of the Bronze Age round barrow cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm
- Langdean stone circle
- Bowl barrow 1km north-east of Baltic Farm
- Bowl barrow 50m south of The Sanctuary on Overton Hill, forming part of the Seven Barrow Hill round barrow cemetery
- Bowl barrow 750m south-east of Windmill Hill
- Saucer barrow 620m north of New Barn: Part of a barrow cemetery on Monkton Down
- Bowl barrow 50m south-east of the `Sanctuary' forming part of the Overton Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Penning bell barrow 600m east of Avebury Down Barn
- Bowl barrow 750m south west of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a round barrow cemetery on North Down
- Thornham Down prehistoric and medieval landscapes
- Bell barrow 75m west of Red Shore
- Bowl barrow situated 60m west of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a round barrow cemetery on North Down
- Linear barrow cemetery on Hackpen Hill
- Square enclosure 350m north of Wansdyke on Bishop's Cannings Down
- Compton Farm Romano-British and Early Medieval occupation sites and associated cultivation earthworks
- Enclosure on Ogbourne Down
- Bowl barrow 770m south west of the junction of the Ridgeway and Green Street, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- South Street long barrow, 70m south east of the Long Stones
- Two round barrows W of New Town Farm
- Bowl barrow forming part of a linear round barrow cemetery on Allington Down
- Silbury Hill: a monumental Neolithic mound west of the River Kennet and south of Avebury village
- Two saucer barrows and a pair of bowl barrows 750m SSW of Beckhampton Plantation, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton Down
- Bowl barrow 200m south of Green Street and 1100m east of the Avebury henge monument, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Bowl barrow 230m west of The Grange, Beckhampton
- Pair of bowl barrows situated on the south east of Bishop's Cannings Down
- Two bowl barrows 820m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Bowl barrow 300m south of Fox Covert forming part of the Fox Covert round barrow cemetery on West Down
- Group of five round barrows north-east of the Sanctuary: part of the Overton Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Bowl barrow on Longstreet Down
- Boundary earthworks on Wilsford Down
- Bowl barrow 1km west of Tan Hill
- Enclosed Iron Age farmstead 450m south of Down Barn on Bishop's Cannings Down
- West Kennet bell barrow, 160m north-west of West Kennet long barrow
- Strip lynchets north-east of East Chisenbury
- Enclosure on Horton Down
- Bowl barrow 1150m north-east of Baltic Farm
- Saucer barrow on North Down
- Round barrow in the grounds of RAF Upavon
- Two bell barrows and a bowl barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery adjacent to the Devizes to Beckhampton road on North Down
- Horslip long barrow, 450m north-west of Horslip Bridge.
- Bowl barrow 550m north-east of Baltic Farm
- Bowl barrow north of Jenner's Firs
- Bowl barrow 40m north west of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- Two boundary earthworks on the west of Rushall Down
- Earthwork W of New Town Farm
- Avebury henge and stone circles
- Long barrow in Barrow Copse
- Barrow north-west of Weatherhill Scrub
- Devil's Den long barrow, 600m east of White Acre
- 'The Spectacles'
- Bowl barrow 50m north east of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- Bowl barrow forming part of a Bronze Age cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm on Overton Hill
- Enclosure north of Chirton Gorse
- Bell barrow 660m south east of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton Down
- Round barrow south-west of Compton Farm
- Earthwork NW of New Town Farm
- Ten barrows forming part of Fox Covert round barrow cemetery, West Down.
- Bowl barrow 640m south west of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a round barrow cemetery on North Down
- Bell barrow 200m north of Rockley Plantation
- Avebury Long Stones 380m east of The Grange Stables, Beckhampton
- Bowl barrow 750m east of New Barn
- Round barrow cemetery and part of a field system 200m south of Beckhampton Penning
- Bell barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery 135m ENE of Baltic Farm
- Bowl barrow 70m north of Rockley Plantation
- Bowl barrow 200m east of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Bowl barrow 500m west of The Row
- Three confluent round barrows 580m west of the Ridgeway, forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Bowl barrow five hundred metres north-west of Baden Down Farm
- Enclosure on Marden Down
- Prehistoric to post-medieval settlement, cultivation, industrial and funerary remains on Fyfield, Overton and Manton Downs
- East Kennett long barrow, 600m south of East Kennett church
- Earthwork enclosure 950m SSE of Manor Farm
- Cross dyke 450m west of Cherhill Monument
- Trackway, ditch and bell barrow on Longstreet Down
- Bowl barrow 900m SSE of Green Bank
- Bell barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery on North Down
- Bowl barrow 300m east of Ivy House Farm
- Swanborough Tump
- Adam's Grave: a long barrow on Walker's Hill
- Bowl barrow situated 500m SSW of Shepherds' Shore
- Medieval settlement remains immediately west of The Vicarage
- Square earthwork enclosure 450m north west of Baltic Farm on Morgan's Hill
- Section of Wansdyke and associated monuments from east of The Firs to the eastern side of Tan Hill
- Group of round barrows on Rough Hill
- Long Stones long barrow 150m north of Beckhampton House
- Three Roman burial mounds, a Bronze Age bowl barrow, a pagan Saxon inhumation cemetery and a short length of Roman road on Overton Hill.
- West Kennett Farm palisaded enclosures
- Grange Stables bell barrow
- The Hatfield Earthwork: a henge enclosure, henge and remains of monumental mound at Marden
- Two bowl barrows 320m south-east of Little London
- Earthwork enclosure N of Wansdyke
- Bowl barrow 610m south east of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton Down
- Earthwork enclosure on Allington Down
- Pair of Bronze Age bowl barrows 200m WSW of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a barrow cemetery situated on North Down
- Bowl barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Allington Down
- Iron Age enclosure on Overton Hill, 600m north west of North Farm
- Beckhampton round barrow cemetery 150m north east of the `Waggon and Horses'
- Casterley Camp and associated monuments
- Bowl barrow 870m ESE of New Barn on Monkton Down
- Round barrow near Charlton Clumps
- Wick Down Farm earthwork
- Cross dyke 520m north east of Cherhill Monument
- Village settlement on Barton Down
- Earthwork enclosure on Milk Hill
- Bowl barrow and a saucer barrow 200m north of Rockley Plantation
- Section of Roman Road 560m north east of Beckhampton Buildings
- Harepit Way linear boundary
- Linear earthworks forming part of a field system on Bishop's Cannings Down
- Oldbury Camp hillfort, bowl barrow and cross dyke on Cherhill Down
- Bowl barrow 700m south-east of Windmill Hill
- Bell barrow 600m west of Beckhampton Buildings
- Pair of bowl barrows 650m south west of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on North Down
- Bowl barrow 200m south of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery
- Bowl barrow 200m north of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- Pair of bowl barrows on West Down, 550m east of Witch Plantation
- Bowl barrow 120m west of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- Long barrow on Horton Down
- Group of four round barrows 500m south-east of Avebury Down Barn, forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Six bowl barrows 560m north of New Barn: part of a barrow cemetery on Monkton Down
- Bell barrow 300m south-east of Avebury Down Barn forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- A causewayed enclosure, the core of a round barrow cemetery, part of a prehistoric field system and an associated mortuary enclosure on Windmill Hill
- Group of four round barrows 300m north west of the junction between the Ridgeway and Green Street on Avebury Down
- Earth Burgh (or Eorth Burh) NW of New Town Farm
- Bowl barrow 650m ESE of New Barn, between Avebury Down and Monkton Down
- Bell barrow on Easton Down
- Enclosure and boundary earthwork west of Scraggy Copse
- Bowl barrow 130m SSW of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a barrow cemetery situated on North Down
- Bowl barrow 800m south of Hemp Knoll
- Boundary feature, western section of Long Ditch across Wilsford Down
- Long barrow and abutting bowl barrow 700m WSW of Beckhampton Buildings, forming the focus of a barrow cemetery on North Down
- Three sections of a linear earthwork south west of New Barn
- Five round barrows 1040m NNE of Baltic Farm forming part of a barrow cemetery on North Down
- Bell barrow situated between Bishop's Cannings Down and Easton Down
- Medieval village site
- Group of six round barrows forming part of a Bronze Age cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm
- Three bell barrows and a pillow mound 400m south-west of Knap Cottage
- Multiple trackway between and north of Round Clump and Dogtail Plantation
- Bowl barrow 840m north-east of Baltic Farm
- Bowl barrow forming part of a linear round barrow cemetery on Allington Down
- Three bowl barrows 600m south-west of Knap Cottage
- Bowl barrow 150m north of the Alton White Horse
- Bowl barrow on Calstone Down, 500m south of Witch Plantation
- Round barrow 1260m NNE of Baltic Farm, 75m south of Roman Road, forming part of a barrow cemetery situated on North Down
- Two bowl barrows 400m south of Tanhill Penning
- Bowl barrow 800m north-east of Hackpen Barn
- Bowl barrow 750m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Shrunken medieval village site E of Avebury Trusloe
- Barrow east of Chirton Landing Strip
- Strip lynchet system north of Chisman's Cleeve
- Giant's Grave (Martinsell Hill)
- Bowl barrow 1km north-east of Avebury and 70m north of Green Street
- Bowl barrow 900m south west of the junction of the Ridgeway and Green Street, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Bowl barrow 620m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Field system on Penning Down
- Bowl barrow 350m north-east of White Horse Plantation
- Three Bronze Age barrows 200m NNW of Down Barn forming part of a barrow cemetery situated on North Down
- Deserted medieval village E of Manor Farm
- Bowl barrow 375m east of Wick Bottom Barn
- Saucer barrow 250m east of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery
- Grange bowl barrow 130m north west of The Grange Stables bell barrow, Beckhampton
- Ditch W of Tanhill Fair
- Linear round barrow cemetery 200m ENE of West Kennett long barrow
- A henge, four Bronze Age barrows and part of a Roman road 500m south west of Fox Covert
- Group of barrows on Draycott Hill
- Wansdyke: section from S of Furze Hill to Marlborough-Pewsey road
- Bohune Down round barrow
- Bowl barrow 50m north of Barrow Farm
- Bowl barrow 200m east of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a barrow cemetery
- Round barrow forming part of the Fox Covert round barrow cemetery on West Down
- West Chisenbury Settlement
- Four round barrows 740m east of Kitchen Barrow, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on All Cannings Down
- Long barrow 85m west of Cherhill Monument
- Enford Roman villa
- Kitchen Barrow: a long barrow on Kitchen Barrow Hill
- Long barrow on Easton Down
- West Kennet Avenue and an earthwork bank east of West Kennett Farm
- Pair of round barrows and section of linear earthwork NE of the gallops on West Down
- Two bowl barrows 350m south east of Baden Down Farm
- Pair of Bronze Age bowl barrows 400m south west of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a cemetery on North Down
- Field system E of Kitchen Barrow Hill
- Chisenbury Warren Romano-British settlement and associated trackway
- Ell Barrow, long barrow
- West Kennet long barrow, 800m south-east of Silbury Hill
- Bell barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm on Overton Hill
