Bishops Cannings
Bishops Cannings is a Town in the county of Wiltshire.
There are great places to visit near Bishops Cannings including some great historic monuments, ancient sites, historic buildings, country parks, lakes and villages.
Bishops Cannings has some unmissable historic monuments nearby like Lansdowne Monument, Cherhill White Horse, and Avebury.
Bishops Cannings's best nearby ancient sites can be found at Avebury, West Kennet Long Barrow, The Sanctuary, and Silbury Hill.
Avebury Manor is one of Bishops Cannings's best, nearby historic buildings to visit in Bishops Cannings.
Coate Water Country Park is a great place to visit close to Bishops Cannings if you like country parks.
Don't miss Coate Water's lakes if visiting the area around Bishops Cannings.
Don't miss Ashton Keynes's villages if visiting the area around Bishops Cannings.
Bishops Cannings History
There are some historic monuments around Bishops Cannings:
- Pair of bell barrows and a pair of bowl barrows forming part of a barrow cemetery at Baltic Farm
- Devizes Castle
- Bowl barrow 750m south-east of Windmill Hill
- Medieval settlement 520m north east of Lower Beversbrook Farm
- Medieval cross 30m north east of St Martin's Church
- West Kennet long barrow, 800m south-east of Silbury Hill
- Field system 275yds (250m) N of Field Barn
- Bowl barrow 60m east of Roundway Hill Covert
- Enclosed Iron Age farmstead 450m south of Down Barn on Bishop's Cannings Down
- Eleven round barrows 1000m north of Baltic Farm forming part of a barrow cemetery, and a probable enclosed Iron Age farmstead on North Down
- Bowl barrow 1070m NNW of Baltic Farm forming part of a barrow cemetery on North Down
- Horslip long barrow, 450m north-west of Horslip Bridge.
- Boundary feature, western section of Long Ditch across Wilsford Down
- Moated site and fishpond north-west of Pinhills Farm
- Medieval village cross 100m north east of St Martin's Church
- Bowl barrow on Calstone Down, 500m south of Witch Plantation
- Bowl barrow 750m south-west of Manor Farm: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery
- Linear earthworks forming part of a field system on Bishop's Cannings Down
- Pair of round barrows and section of linear earthwork NE of the gallops on West Down
- Oldbury Camp hillfort, bowl barrow and cross dyke on Cherhill Down
- Long barrow 85m west of Cherhill Monument
- Bowl barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery 120m north of the Devizes to Beckhampton road on North Down
- Avebury henge and stone circles
- Two bowl barrows 670m south east of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton Down
- The Long Monument
- Medieval rural settlement at Quemerford
- Bowl barrow 130m SSW of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a barrow cemetery situated on North Down
- Nuthills Roman villa
- Bell barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery on North Down
- Bowl barrow 840m north-east of Baltic Farm
- Barrow north-west of Weatherhill Scrub
- Boundary earthworks on Wilsford Down
- Kitchen Barrow: a long barrow on Kitchen Barrow Hill
- Earthwork enclosure on Allington Down
- Bowl barrow 400m west of Cooks Plantation
- Silbury Hill: a monumental Neolithic mound west of the River Kennet and south of Avebury village
- Bowl barrow 230m west of The Grange, Beckhampton
- Section of Roman Road 560m north east of Beckhampton Buildings
- Four round barrows 740m east of Kitchen Barrow, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on All Cannings Down
- Pair of Bronze Age bowl barrows 400m south west of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a cemetery on North Down
- Pair of Bronze Age bowl barrows 200m WSW of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a barrow cemetery situated on North Down
- Long barrow on Easton Down
- Bowl barrow 800m south of Hemp Knoll
- Round barrow cemetery 400m south of Avebury henge monument on Waden Hill
- Bowl barrow 930m west of Cherhill Monument, Cherhill Down.
- Bowl barrow 200m east of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Bowl barrow 840m west of Cherhill Monument, Cherhill Down.
- Bell barrow 660m south east of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton Down
- Cross dyke 450m west of Cherhill Monument
- Bell barrow situated between Bishop's Cannings Down and Easton Down
- Five round barrows 1040m NNE of Baltic Farm forming part of a barrow cemetery on North Down
- Richardson medieval settlement
- Remains of watermill 500m east of Freeth Farm
- Bowl barrow on Kitchen Barrow Hill
- A henge, four Bronze Age barrows and part of a Roman road 500m south west of Fox Covert
- Pair of bowl barrows situated on the south east of Bishop's Cannings Down
- Bowl barrow 610m south east of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton Down
- Long barrow on King's Play Hill, 430m north west of Hill Cottage
- The Hatfield Earthwork: a henge enclosure, henge and remains of monumental mound at Marden
- Grange Stables bell barrow
- Cross dyke 520m north east of Cherhill Monument
- Bowl barrow forming part of a cemetery 800m east of Kitchen Barrow
- Enclosure north of Chirton Gorse
- Bowl barrow 1km north-east of Baltic Farm
- Two bowl barrows 320m south-east of Little London
- Bowl barrow 200m south of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery
- Cross ridge dyke on Morgan's Hill
- Bowl barrow 750m south west of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a round barrow cemetery on North Down
- Bowl barrow situated 60m west of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a round barrow cemetery on North Down
- Moated site 300m north-east of Potterne Park Farm
- Ditch W of Tanhill Fair
- Long barrow 650m WSW of Shepherds' Shore
- Bowl barrow on King's Play Hill, 420m north of Hill Cottage
- Long barrow and abutting bowl barrow 700m WSW of Beckhampton Buildings, forming the focus of a barrow cemetery on North Down
- Section of Wansdyke and associated monuments from east of The Firs to the eastern side of Tan Hill
- Deserted medieval village E of Manor Farm
- Square enclosure 350m north of Wansdyke on Bishop's Cannings Down
- Winterbourne Bassett mound
- Bowl barrow 640m south west of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a round barrow cemetery on North Down
- Bowl barrow 350m north-east of White Horse Plantation
- West Kennet bell barrow, 160m north-west of West Kennet long barrow
- Shrunken medieval village site E of Avebury Trusloe
- Field system E of Kitchen Barrow Hill
- Bell barrow on Easton 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
- Enclosure on Horton Down
- Rybury camp
- Ten barrows forming part of Fox Covert round barrow cemetery, West Down.
- Two saucer barrows and a pair of bowl barrows 750m SSW of Beckhampton Plantation, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton Down
- Cross dyke 230m south west of Cherhill Monument
- Four earthwork enclosures on All Cannings Down
- Avebury Long Stones 380m east of The Grange Stables, Beckhampton
- Bowl barrow 1km west of Tan Hill
- Round barrow cemetery and part of a field system 200m south of Beckhampton Penning
- Pair of bowl barrows forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Allington Down
- Pair of bowl barrows 150m north of the Wansdyke on All Cannings Down
- Group of small enclosures on Horton Down, 910m north east of Easton Down long barrow
- Bowl barrow 190m north east of Nolands Farm, Yatesbury
- Caen Hill locks
- Two bell barrows and a bowl barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery adjacent to the Devizes to Beckhampton road on North Down
- Bowl barrow at east end of Morgan's Hill
- Roundway Hill Farm round barrows
- Linear boundary earthwork and associated field system on Cherhill Down
- Beckhampton round barrow cemetery 150m north east of the `Waggon and Horses'
- Bell barrow 600m west of Beckhampton Buildings
- Bowl barrow 800m south-east of Tanhill Penning
- Bowl barrow forming part of a linear round barrow cemetery on Allington Down
- Pair of bowl barrows on West Down, 550m east of Witch Plantation
- Four bowl barrows forming part of a cemetery 270m east of long barrow on Roughridge Hill
- Square earthwork enclosure 450m north west of Baltic Farm on Morgan's Hill
- Grange bowl barrow 130m north west of The Grange Stables bell barrow, Beckhampton
- Bowl barrow 300m east of Furze Knoll
- Bowl barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery situated 120m NNW of Down Barn on North Down
- Round barrow near Charlton Clumps
- Bell barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery 135m ENE of Baltic Farm
- Saucer barrow 250m east of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery
- Bowl barrow on King's Play Hill 510m north of Hill Cottage
- Earthwork enclosure N of Wansdyke
- Barrow east of Chirton Landing Strip
- Bowl barrow 1150m north-east of Baltic Farm
- Pair of bowl barrows 650m south west of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on North Down
- Enclosure on Marden Down
- Round barrow forming part of the Fox Covert round barrow cemetery on West Down
- Group of three bowl barrows 250m north east of Shepherds' Shore
- Two bowl barrows north of Rowbury Lane
- Multiple trackway between and north of Round Clump and Dogtail Plantation
- Three Bronze Age barrows 200m NNW of Down Barn forming part of a barrow cemetery situated on North Down
- Long barrow on Horton Down
- Two boundary earthworks on the west of Rushall Down
- Pair of round barrows 200m SSE of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Bowl barrow 550m north-east of Baltic Farm
- Barrow S of Wansdyke
- Saucer barrow 600m west of Beckhampton Buildings
- Saucer barrow on North Down
- Saucer barrow 910m west of Cherhill Monument, Cherhill Down.
- Two bowl barrows in Roundway Hill Covert
- Long Stones long barrow 150m north of Beckhampton House
- Wansdyke: 460yds (420m) SE of Broads Green to 266yds (240m) NE of Paddock Farm
- Harepit Way linear boundary
- Bowl barrow 700m south-east of Windmill Hill
- Bowl barrow situated 500m SSW of Shepherds' Shore
- Bowl barrow 950m SSW of Beckhampton Plantation, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton Down
- Round barrow in Mount Wood, 300m north-east of Upper Lodge
- Bowl barrow 150m east of the wireless station on Morgan's Hill
- Bowl barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Allington Down
- Site of an oval stone circle and part of an adjacent field system 700m SW of West Kennet long barrow.
- Oliver's Camp and two round barrows outside Oliver's Camp
- South Street long barrow, 70m south east of the Long Stones
- Two bowl barrows 400m south of Tanhill Penning
- Earthwork enclosure on Milk Hill
- Round barrow 1260m NNE of Baltic Farm, 75m south of Roman Road, forming part of a barrow cemetery situated on North Down
- All Cannings Cross, an Early Iron Age settlement site
- Medieval village site
- Bowl barrow 300m south of Fox Covert forming part of the Fox Covert round barrow cemetery on West Down
- Bowl barrow 500m west of the wireless station on Morgan's Hill; part of a group of three bowl barrows
- Enclosure and boundary earthwork west of Scraggy Copse
- Field system on Penning Down
- Bowl barrow forming part of a linear round barrow cemetery on Allington Down
