Cricklade
Cricklade is a Town in the county of Wiltshire.
There are great places to visit near Cricklade 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 Cricklade if you like historic monuments.
The area around Cricklade boasts some of the best ancient sites including Avebury, West Kennet Long Barrow, The Sanctuary, and Silbury Hill.
Avebury Manor is a great place to visit close to Cricklade if you like historic buildings.
There are a number of country parks near to Cricklade including Coate Water Country Park.
Coate Water is a great place to visit close to Cricklade if you like lakes.
Cricklade is near some unmissable villages like Ashton Keynes,
Cricklade History
There are some historic monuments around Cricklade:
Places to see near Cricklade
History of Cricklade
The third phase is marked by systematic razing of the stone wall, which was pulled down over the inner berm (the space between the wall and the inner ditch). Stones from it were used to fill the inner two ditches, which shows that the process was deliberate. A similar phase can be seen in the archaeological record at Christchurch, Dorset, another burh of the Burghal Hidage. Observations at other burhs also suggest that this phase of destruction was implemented over the whole of Wessex, and must therefore have been the result of a concerted policy, again by inference on the part of the king. The most reasonable historical context for this seems to be accession of King Cnut in the early 11th century, to prevent the burhs being seized and used against him by his rivals.
