Broad Town
Broad Town is a Village in the county of Wiltshire.
There are great places to visit near Broad Town including some great historic monuments, ancient sites, historic buildings, country parks, lakes and villages.
Lansdowne Monument, Cherhill White Horse, and Avebury are great places to visit near Broad Town if you like historic monuments.
Avebury, West Kennet Long Barrow, The Sanctuary, and Silbury Hill are great places to visit near Broad Town if you like ancient sites.
The area around Broad Town's best historic buildings can be found at Avebury Manor.
There are a several good country parks in the area around Broad Town like Coate Water Country Park.
The area close to Broad Town boasts some of the best lakes including Coate Water.
Don't miss Ashton Keynes's villages if visiting the area around Broad Town.
Broad Town History
There are some historic monuments around Broad Town:
- The Sanctuary, Overton Hill
- Grange Stables bell barrow
- Bowl barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery situated 120m NNW of Down Barn on North Down
- Bowl barrow 300m south-east of Walker's Plantation
- Saucer barrow 620m north of New Barn: Part of a barrow cemetery on Monkton Down
- Bowl barrow at east end of Morgan's Hill
- Long Stones long barrow 150m north of Beckhampton House
- Bowl barrow 40m north west of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- Bell barrow 660m south east of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton Down
- Rabbit warren 800m east of Woodlane Farm
- A henge, four Bronze Age barrows and part of a Roman road 500m south west of Fox Covert
- Six bowl barrows 560m north of New Barn: part of a barrow cemetery on Monkton Down
- Bowl barrow 1km north-east of Baltic Farm
- Three confluent round barrows 580m west of the Ridgeway, forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Bowl barrow 200m east of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Two medieval fishponds 170m north of Little Park Farm
- Bowl barrow 500m north-west of Berwick Bassett Clump
- Bowl barrow 1150m north-east of Baltic Farm
- Bowl barrow 770m south west of the junction of the Ridgeway and Green Street, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- East Kennett long barrow, 600m south of East Kennett church
- Winterbourne Bassett mound
- Post mill mound 150m north west of Brynards Hill Farm
- Harepit Way linear boundary
- Bowl barrow 375m east of Wick Bottom Barn
- Five round barrows 1040m NNE of Baltic Farm forming part of a barrow cemetery on North Down
- Bowl barrow 800m north-east of Hackpen Barn
- Bowl barrow 350m north-east of White Horse Plantation
- Earthwork enclosure 950m SSE of Manor Farm
- Saucer barrow 600m west of Beckhampton Buildings
- Bowl barrow in The Belt, 350m north east of Hill Barn
- Pair of round barrows 400m west of the Ridgeway, forming part of a round barrow cemetery situated on Avebury Down
- Three sections of a linear earthwork south west of New Barn
- Bowl barrow 750m south-east of Windmill Hill
- Bowl barrow 500m west of The Row
- Romano-British villa complex 330m north west of Queen Court Farm
- Horslip long barrow, 450m north-west of Horslip Bridge.
- Bowl barrow 930m west of Cherhill Monument, Cherhill Down.
- Bowl barrow 610m south east of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton Down
- Penning bell barrow 600m east of Avebury Down Barn
- Round barrow cemetery and part of a field system 200m south of Beckhampton Penning
- Post mill at Church Hills
- Moated site 400m north-east of Hooker's Gate
- Prehistoric to post-medieval settlement, cultivation, industrial and funerary remains on Fyfield, Overton and Manton Downs
- Bowl barrow 840m north-east of Baltic Farm
- Cross dyke 230m south west of Cherhill Monument
- Round barrow in Mount Wood, 300m north-east of Upper Lodge
- Bowl barrow immediately west of the Ridgeway, 400m north east of its junction with Green Street
- Three bowl barrows: part of a barrow cemetery west of Barbury Castle
- Earthwork enclosure and dewpond 490m north of Barbury Castle
- Three Roman burial mounds, a Bronze Age bowl barrow, a pagan Saxon inhumation cemetery and a short length of Roman road on Overton Hill.
- Medieval rural settlement 240m south of Lower Woodshaw Farm
- Group of four round barrows 300m north west of the junction between the Ridgeway and Green Street on Avebury Down
- Square earthwork enclosure 450m north west of Baltic Farm on Morgan's Hill
- Medieval settlement and associated ridge and furrow, West Leaze
- Linear barrow cemetery on Hackpen Hill
- Saucer barrow 910m west of Cherhill Monument, Cherhill Down.
- Cross dyke 450m west of Cherhill Monument
- Iron Age enclosure on Overton Hill, 600m north west of North Farm
- Linear round barrow cemetery 200m ENE of West Kennett long barrow
- Wick Down Farm earthwork
- 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
- Bowl barrow 750m south-east of Barbury Castle Farm
- Bowl barrow 400m west of Cooks Plantation
- Bowl barrow situated 60m west of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a round barrow cemetery on North Down
- Bowl barrow 870m ESE of New Barn on Monkton Down
- Cross ridge dyke on Morgan's Hill
- Bowl barrow 640m south west of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a round barrow cemetery on North Down
- Bell barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery on North Down
- Group of five round barrows north-east of the Sanctuary: part of the Overton Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Long barrow and abutting bowl barrow 700m WSW of Beckhampton Buildings, forming the focus of a barrow cemetery on North Down
- Barrow on Avebury Down, S of track from Avebury
- Bowl barrow 70m north of Green Street and east of the Avebury henge monument
- Bell barrow 600m west of Beckhampton Buildings
- Bell barrow 350m south-west of Barbury Barn
- Pair of Bronze Age bowl barrows 400m south west of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a cemetery on North Down
- Bowl barrow 230m west of The Grange, Beckhampton
- Bowl barrow 300m south of Fox Covert forming part of the Fox Covert round barrow cemetery on West Down
- Linear boundary earthwork and associated field system on Cherhill Down
- Bowl barrow 200m east of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a barrow cemetery
- Beckhampton round barrow cemetery 150m north east of the `Waggon and Horses'
- Avebury Long Stones 380m east of The Grange Stables, Beckhampton
- Saucer barrow on North Down
- Pair of bowl barrows 650m south west of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on North Down
- Preshute Down field system
- Three Bronze Age barrows 200m NNW of Down Barn forming part of a barrow cemetery situated on North Down
- Bowl barrow on Calstone Down, 500m south of Witch Plantation
- Bowl barrow 200m south of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery
- Barbury Castle Farm deserted Medieval village
- Stone circle
- Bowl barrow 190m north east of Nolands Farm, Yatesbury
- Enclosed Iron Age farmstead 450m south of Down Barn on Bishop's Cannings Down
- Bowl barrow 750m south-west of Manor Farm: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery
- Oldbury Camp hillfort, bowl barrow and cross dyke on Cherhill Down
- Bowl barrow 900m south west of the junction of the Ridgeway and Green Street, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Sharpridge field system
- Group of six round barrows forming part of a Bronze Age cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm
- Bowl barrow 750m south west of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a round barrow cemetery on North Down
- Shrunken medieval village site E of Avebury Trusloe
- West Kennet long barrow, 800m south-east of Silbury Hill
- Bowl barrow 840m west of Cherhill Monument, Cherhill Down.
- Group of round barrows on Rough Hill
- Pair of bowl barrows on West Down, 550m east of Witch Plantation
- Bowl barrow 130m SSW of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a barrow cemetery situated on North Down
- Ten barrows forming part of Fox Covert round barrow cemetery, West Down.
- Bowl barrow 300m east of Furze Knoll
- Medieval settlement, moat and fishponds at Woodhill Park Farm
- Bowl barrow 50m south of The Sanctuary on Overton Hill, forming part of the Seven Barrow Hill round barrow cemetery
- Roman pottery 140m SSW of Tewkesbury Cross
- Two bowl barrows 680m north of Upper Herdswick Farm, Barbury Down
- Bowl barrow 630m north east of Wick Bottom Barn
- A causewayed enclosure, the core of a round barrow cemetery, part of a prehistoric field system and an associated mortuary enclosure on Windmill Hill
- Remains of watermill 500m east of Freeth Farm
- Earthwork on Paven Hill
- Medieval settlement remains at Overtown
- Avebury henge and stone circles
- Two enclosures on Winterbourne Down
- Barbury Castle: a hillfort and bowl barrow
- West Kennett Farm palisaded enclosures
- Medieval settlement remains immediately west of The Vicarage
- Two bell barrows and a bowl barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery adjacent to the Devizes to Beckhampton road on North Down
- Pair of round barrows forming part of the Bronze Age round barrow cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm
- Bowl barrow 750m east of New Barn
- Group of small enclosures on Horton Down, 910m north east of Easton Down long barrow
- Round barrow forming part of the Fox Covert round barrow cemetery on West Down
- Bowl barrow 650m ESE of New Barn, between Avebury Down and Monkton Down
- Bowl barrow 150m east of the wireless station on Morgan's Hill
- Ringsbury Camp hillfort
- Group of four round barrows 500m south-east of Avebury Down Barn, forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Pair of Bronze Age bowl barrows 200m WSW of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a barrow cemetery situated on North Down
- Section of Roman Road 560m north east of Beckhampton Buildings
- Medieval settlement immediately north west of Upper Littlecott Farm
- Bowl barrow 300m east of Ivy House Farm
- Bowl barrow 200m north of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- Bell barrow 300m south-east of Avebury Down Barn forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Bowl barrow 800m south-east of Barbury Barn
- Grange bowl barrow 130m north west of The Grange Stables bell barrow, Beckhampton
- Sharpridge earthworks
- Cross in the churchyard of St John the Baptist and St Helen
- Bowl barrow 1km north-east of Avebury and 70m north of Green Street
- South Street long barrow, 70m south east of the Long Stones
- Bowl barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery 120m north of the Devizes to Beckhampton road on North Down
- Bincknoll Camp
- Pair of round barrows 200m SSE of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Saucer barrow: part of a barrow cemetery west of Barbury Castle
- 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 1450m south of Barbury Castle Farm
- Bowl barrow 500m west of the wireless station on Morgan's Hill; part of a group of three bowl barrows
- Bowl barrow 900m SSE of Green Bank
- Site of watermill 290m south east of West Leaze
- West Kennet Avenue and an earthwork bank east of West Kennett Farm
- Long barrow 85m west of Cherhill Monument
- Remains of `Falkner's Circle', a Neolithic stone circle 180m east of the West Kennet Avenue
- Two earthwork enclosures and a linear earthwork 625m north of Barbury Castle
- Bowl barrow 50m south-east of the `Sanctuary' forming part of the Overton Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Bowl barrow 1070m NNW of Baltic Farm forming part of a barrow cemetery on North Down
- Bowl barrow 550m north-east of Baltic Farm
- Green Bank bowl barrow, 230m east of the Avebury henge monument
- Round barrow cemetery 400m south of Avebury henge monument on Waden Hill
- 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 120m west of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- Saucer barrow 250m east of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery
- Site of an oval stone circle and part of an adjacent field system 700m SW of West Kennet long barrow.
- Two bowl barrows 670m south east of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton Down
- Bowl barrow 700m south-east of Windmill Hill
- Richardson medieval settlement
- Cross dyke 520m north east of Cherhill Monument
- West Kennet bell barrow, 160m north-west of West Kennet long barrow
- Round barrow 1260m NNE of Baltic Farm, 75m south of Roman Road, forming part of a barrow cemetery situated on North Down
- Silbury Hill: a monumental Neolithic mound west of the River Kennet and south of Avebury village
- Devil's Den long barrow, 600m east of White Acre
- Two bowl barrows 320m south-east of Little London
- Bowl barrow 210m north east of Rushy Platt Farm
- Medieval cross in St Mary's churchyard
- Bell barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm on Overton Hill
- Pair of round barrows and section of linear earthwork NE of the gallops on West Down
- Bowl barrow east of the Ridgeway forming part of the Overton Hill Bronze Age round barrow cemetery.
