Oare
Oare is a Village in the county of Wiltshire.
Oare postcode: SN8 4JH
There are great places to visit near Oare including some great historic monuments, ancient sites, historic buildings, country parks, lakes and villages.
Oare has some unmissable historic monuments nearby like Lansdowne Monument, Cherhill White Horse, and Avebury.
The area around Oare features a number of interesting ancient sites including Avebury, West Kennet Long Barrow, The Sanctuary, and Silbury Hill.
There are a several good historic buildings in the area around Oare like Avebury Manor.
The area close to Oare boasts some of the best country parks including Coate Water Country Park.
Oare is near some unmissable lakes like Coate Water,
Places near Oare feature a number of interesting villages including Ashton Keynes.
Oare History
There are some historic monuments around Oare:
- Thornham Down prehistoric and medieval landscapes
- Bowl barrow 800m south-east of Ogbourne St Andrew Farm
- Bowl barrow 620m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Bowl barrow 400m south-east of Culley's Farm Cottages
- Round barrow in the grounds of RAF Upavon
- 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 900m SSE of Green Bank
- Silbury Hill: a monumental Neolithic mound west of the River Kennet and south of Avebury village
- Earthwork enclosure on Milk Hill
- Earth Burgh (or Eorth Burh) NW of New Town Farm
- Medieval village site
- Bowl barrow 750m east of New Barn
- Bowl barrow 200m east of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a barrow cemetery
- Crowdown Clump earthwork (Godsbury)
- Bowl barrow on Longstreet Down
- Bowl barrow east of the Ridgeway forming part of the Overton Hill Bronze Age round barrow cemetery.
- Bowl barrow north-east of Everleigh Ashes
- Earthworks on Marlborough Common
- Bell barrow 300m south-east of Avebury Down Barn forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Adam's Grave: a long barrow on Walker's Hill
- Bell barrow and adjacent bowl barrow on Marlborough Common, 120m east of Wootton Bassett Road
- Romano-British settlement and associated earthworks on Coombe Down, 760m east of Bake Barn
- Bowl barrow 800m south-east of Tanhill Penning
- Earthwork enclosure N of Wansdyke
- Pair of round barrows 200m SSE of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Bowl barrow 40m north west of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- Trackway, ditch and bell barrow on Longstreet Down
- Saucer barrow 250m east of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery
- Boundary earthworks on Wilsford Down
- Settlement and field system on Milton Hill (Fyfield Down)
- Bowl barrow 50m north east of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- West Kennett Farm palisaded enclosures
- Devil's Den long barrow, 600m east of White Acre
- Group of round barrows on Rough Hill
- Richardson medieval settlement
- Group of six round barrows forming part of a Bronze Age cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm
- Bowl barrow 275m west of Square Copse: part of the Square Copse barrow cemetery
- Romano-British kilns, Column Ride, Savernake Forest
- Knap Hill camp near Alton Priors
- Two round barrows west of Hougoumont Farm
- Two bowl barrows 400m south of Tanhill Penning
- Two bowl barrows 400m east of Cadley Vicarage
- Bowl barrow 200m east of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Linear barrow cemetery on Hackpen Hill
- Bowl barrow 70m north of Rockley Plantation
- Wansdyke: section 610yds (560m) NW of Wernham Farm to 250yds (230m) SW of New Buildings
- Pair of round barrows forming part of the Bronze Age round barrow cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm
- South Street long barrow, 70m south east of the Long Stones
- Two bowl barrows 820m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Bell barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm on Overton Hill
- Casterley Camp and associated monuments
- Easton Clump settlement
- Two round barrows W of New Town Farm
- Withy Copse ditch
- Beckhampton round barrow cemetery 150m north east of the `Waggon and Horses'
- A causewayed enclosure, the core of a round barrow cemetery, part of a prehistoric field system and an associated mortuary enclosure on Windmill Hill
- Village settlement on Barton Down
- The Sanctuary, Overton Hill
- Bowl barrow 500m north-west of Berwick Bassett Clump
- Three confluent round barrows 580m west of the Ridgeway, forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Avebury 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
- Bowl barrow 690m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Boundary earthwork on Upavon Down
- Group of barrows on Draycott Hill
- Group of four round barrows 300m north west of the junction between the Ridgeway and Green Street on Avebury Down
- The Hatfield Earthwork: a henge enclosure, henge and remains of monumental mound at Marden
- Snail Down barrow cemetery and associated monuments.
- Earthwork NW of New Town Farm
- Lidbury Camp, associated trackways and bowl barrow, on Littlecott Down
- Barrow on Coombe Down, 1070yds (980m) NE of Upper Poughcombe
- Earthwork enclosure 950m SSE of Manor Farm
- Langdean stone circle
- Long barrow in Barrow Copse
- Bell barrow 200m north of Rockley Plantation
- Everleigh Barrows
- West Kennet long barrow, 800m south-east of Silbury Hill
- Bowl barrow five hundred metres north-west of Baden Down Farm
- Bowl barrow forming part of a Bronze Age cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm on Overton Hill
- Old Hat Barrow, bowl barrow
- Enclosed settlement 450m north of Bake Barn
- Ogbourne Maizey Down round barrow
- Round barrow near Charlton Clumps
- Round barrow cemetery 400m south of Avebury henge monument on Waden Hill
- Compton Farm Romano-British and Early Medieval occupation sites and associated cultivation earthworks
- Bowl barrow 200m north of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- Two bowl barrows 400m south of Summer Down Farm
- Strip lynchet system north of Chisman's Cleeve
- West Kennet Avenue and an earthwork bank east of West Kennett Farm
- Bowl barrow 120m west of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- Three bowl barrows 600m south-west of Knap Cottage
- Penning bell barrow 600m east of Avebury Down Barn
- Bowl barrow 175m west of Square Copse: part of the Square Copse barrow cemetery
- The Weather Hill multiperiod landscape and associated linear earthworks
- Wick Down Farm earthwork
- Bowl barrow 50m south-east of the `Sanctuary' forming part of the Overton Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Bowl barrow, Round Down Copse
- Bowl barrow in The Belt, 350m north east of Hill Barn
- 'The Spectacles'
- Enclosure on Everleigh Down, south-west of Snail Clump
- Round barrow cemetery and part of a field system 200m south of Beckhampton Penning
- Barrow S of Wansdyke
- Field system south of East Everleigh
- Black Field Roman site
- Bowl barrow 870m ESE of New Barn on Monkton 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
- Bowl barrow 880m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Bowl barrow forming part of a linear round barrow cemetery on Allington Down
- Bowl barrow 750m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Bowl barrow 750m south-west of Manor Farm: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery
- Avebury Long Stones 380m east of The Grange Stables, Beckhampton
- Dam of King's fishpond
- Bowl barrow north of Jenner's Firs
- Avebury henge and stone circles
- Group of five round barrows north-east of the Sanctuary: part of the Overton Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Round barrow on Easton Down
- Bowl barrow 1km north-east of Avebury and 70m north of Green Street
- Bowl barrow forming part of a linear round barrow cemetery on Allington Down
- Barrow on Avebury Down, S of track from Avebury
- Remains of `Falkner's Circle', a Neolithic stone circle 180m east of the West Kennet Avenue
- Earthwork enclosure on Allington Down
- Linear round barrow cemetery 200m ENE of West Kennett long barrow
- West Chisenbury Settlement
- Bowl barrow 400m south-east of Cadley Vicarage
- Bowl barrow 650m east of Summer Down Farm
- Pair of bowl barrows 150m north of the Wansdyke on All Cannings Down
- Section of the Wansdyke
- Bowl barrow 150m north of the Alton White Horse
- Three Roman burial mounds, a Bronze Age bowl barrow, a pagan Saxon inhumation cemetery and a short length of Roman road on Overton Hill.
- Linear earthwork in Savernake Forest, S of Great Lodge Bottom
- Two boundary earthworks on the west of Rushall Down
- East Kennett long barrow, 600m south of East Kennett church
- Enclosure east of Baden Down Farm
- Bowl barrow and a saucer barrow 200m north of Rockley Plantation
- Mound in churchyard
- Henge Monument/enclosure, on Everleigh Down, north of Weather Hill Firs
- Bowl barrow 630m north east of Wick Bottom Barn
- Bowl barrow 900m south west of the junction of the Ridgeway and Green Street, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Four earthwork enclosures on All Cannings Down
- Giant's Grave (Martinsell Hill)
- Pair of round barrows 400m west of the Ridgeway, forming part of a round barrow cemetery situated on Avebury Down
- Bowl barrow immediately west of the Ridgeway, 400m north east of its junction with Green Street
- Three sections of a linear earthwork south west of New Barn
- Enclosure on Ogbourne Down
- Two bowl barrows 350m south east of Baden Down Farm
- Round barrow cemetery 320m south east of Down Farm
- Shrunken medieval village site E of Avebury Trusloe
- Bowl barrow 650m ESE of New Barn, between Avebury Down and Monkton Down
- Field system north-east of Chisenbury Field Barn
- Bowl barrow 50m north of Barrow Farm
- Bowl barrow 50m south of The Sanctuary on Overton Hill, forming part of the Seven Barrow Hill round barrow cemetery
- Site of an oval stone circle and part of an adjacent field system 700m SW of West Kennet long barrow.
- Bohune Down round barrow
- Saucer barrow 620m north of New Barn: Part of a barrow cemetery on Monkton Down
- Bowl barrow 500m west of The Row
- Martinsell Hill camp
- Defended settlement on Aughton Down, 450m north of Croft Barn
- Bell barrow 75m west of Red Shore
- Five bowl barrows 600m north-east of Brimslade Farm Cottages: part of the Square Copse barrow cemetery
- Enford Roman villa
- Strip lynchets north-east of East Chisenbury
- Bowl barrow 70m north of Green Street and east of the Avebury henge monument
- 'Giant's Grave' long barrow on Milton Hill
- Green Bank bowl barrow, 230m east of the Avebury henge monument
- Six bowl barrows 560m north of New Barn: part of a barrow cemetery on Monkton Down
- Chisenbury Warren Romano-British settlement and associated trackway
- Wansdyke: section from S of Furze Hill to Marlborough-Pewsey road
- Earthwork W of New Town Farm
- Three bell barrows and a pillow mound 400m south-west of Knap Cottage
- Bowl barrow 750m south-east of Windmill Hill
- Medieval settlement remains immediately west of The Vicarage
- Swanborough Tump
- Bowl barrow 800m north-east of Hackpen Barn
- Bowl barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Allington Down
- Prehistoric to post-medieval settlement, cultivation, industrial and funerary remains on Fyfield, Overton and Manton Downs
- Ditch 530yds (484m) SW of Stitchcombe Farm
- Bowl barrow 375m east of Wick Bottom Barn
- Castle mound
- Camp on Forest Hill
- Bowl barrow 300m east of Ivy House Farm
- Disc barrow at Easton Clump
- Iron Age enclosure on Overton Hill, 600m north west of North Farm
- Bowl barrow 700m south-east of Windmill Hill
- Bowl barrow 200m north-east of Everleigh Ashes
- West Kennet bell barrow, 160m north-west of West Kennet long barrow
