Overtown
Overtown is a Village in the county of Wiltshire.
Overtown postcode: SN4 0SH
There are great places to visit near Overtown including some great historic monuments, ancient sites, historic buildings, country parks, lakes and villages.
Historic Monuments to visit near Overtown include Lansdowne Monument, Cherhill White Horse, and Avebury.
Overtown has some unmissable ancient sites nearby like Avebury, West Kennet Long Barrow, The Sanctuary, and Silbury Hill.
The area close to Overtown boasts some of the best historic buildings including Avebury Manor.
The area close to Overtown boasts some of the best country parks including Coate Water Country Park.
The area around Overtown's best lakes can be found at Coate Water.
There are a number of villages near to Overtown including Ashton Keynes.
Overtown History
There are some historic monuments around Overtown:
- Roman villa 530m west of Stanton House
- Whitefield Hill ditch
- Prehistoric to post-medieval settlement, cultivation, industrial and funerary remains on Fyfield, Overton and Manton Downs
- Bowl barrow 650m ESE of New Barn, between Avebury Down and Monkton Down
- Remains of Holy Rood Church, The Lawn, Old Town
- Medieval settlement remains at Sevenhampton
- Mound in churchyard
- Bowl barrow 750m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Bowl barrow 85m north east of Day House Cottages
- Hall Place
- Ogbourne Maizey Down round barrow
- Site of watermill 290m south east of West Leaze
- Bowl barrow 700m south-east of Windmill Hill
- Barrow on Avebury Down, S of track from Avebury
- Roman pottery 140m SSW of Tewkesbury Cross
- Bowl barrow 750m south-east of Barbury Castle Farm
- Barrow on Coombe Down, 1070yds (980m) NE of Upper Poughcombe
- Bowl barrow 500m north-west of Berwick Bassett Clump
- Six bowl barrows 560m north of New Barn: part of a barrow cemetery on Monkton Down
- Bowl barrow 620m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Avebury Long Stones 380m east of The Grange Stables, Beckhampton
- Sharpridge field system
- Group of four round barrows 300m north west of the junction between the Ridgeway and Green Street on Avebury Down
- South Street long barrow, 70m south east of the Long Stones
- Bowl barrow 200m south of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery
- Bowl barrow 750m south-west of Manor Farm: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery
- 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 immediately west of the Ridgeway, 400m north east of its junction with Green Street
- Bowl barrow 770m south west of the junction of the Ridgeway and Green Street, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Iron Age enclosure on Overton Hill, 600m north west of North Farm
- Two earthwork enclosures and a linear earthwork 625m north of Barbury Castle
- Linear boundary earthwork west of Liddington Castle
- Disc barrow on Burderop Down, 1km north-east of Upper Herdswick Farm
- Linear barrow cemetery on Hackpen Hill
- Bowl barrow and a saucer barrow 200m north of Rockley Plantation
- Bowl barrow 500m west of The Row
- Roman rural sanctuary on Groundwell Ridge, east of Lady Lane
- Village settlement on Barton Down
- Bowl barrow 690m 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
- Camp on Forest Hill
- Barrow on Smeathe's Ridge
- Bincknoll Camp
- Medieval cross in St Mary's churchyard
- Devil's Den long barrow, 600m east of White Acre
- Bell barrow 350m south-west of Barbury Barn
- Earthwork enclosure 950m SSE of Manor Farm
- Remains of `Falkner's Circle', a Neolithic stone circle 180m east of the West Kennet Avenue
- Pair of round barrows 200m SSE of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Cross in the churchyard of St John the Baptist and St Helen
- Winterbourne Bassett mound
- Three confluent round barrows 580m west of the Ridgeway, forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Church Hill earthwork
- Saucer barrow 250m east of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery
- Saucer barrow 620m north of New Barn: Part of a barrow cemetery on Monkton Down
- Green Bank bowl barrow, 230m east of the Avebury henge monument
- Grange Stables bell barrow
- Bowl barrow 880m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- A causewayed enclosure, the core of a round barrow cemetery, part of a prehistoric field system and an associated mortuary enclosure on Windmill Hill
- Bowl barrow 800m north-east of Hackpen Barn
- Earthworks on Marlborough Common
- Two bowl barrows 820m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Three sections of a linear earthwork south west of New Barn
- Saucer barrow: part of a barrow cemetery west of Barbury Castle
- Beckhampton round barrow cemetery 150m north east of the `Waggon and Horses'
- Medieval settlement remains at Overtown
- Bowl barrow 70m north of Rockley Plantation
- Site of Roman town, W of Wanborough House
- Bowl barrow 750m east of New Barn
- Stone circle
- Earthwork enclosure and dewpond 490m north of Barbury Castle
- Bowl barrow 1km north-east of Avebury and 70m north of Green Street
- Bowl barrow 300m south-east of Walker's Plantation
- Bowl barrow 900m SSE of Green Bank
- Bowl barrow 1450m south of Barbury Castle Farm
- Barrow 350yds (320m) E of Smeathe's Plantation, Ogbourne Down
- Bowl barrow 70m north of Green Street and east of the Avebury henge monument
- Shrunken medieval village site E of Avebury Trusloe
- Bowl barrow 200m east of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Pair of round barrows forming part of the Bronze Age round barrow cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm
- Bell barrow and adjacent bowl barrow on Marlborough Common, 120m east of Wootton Bassett Road
- Two enclosures on Winterbourne Down
- Bowl barrow 870m ESE of New Barn on Monkton Down
- Group of round barrows on Rough Hill
- Banjo enclosure 480m south west of Cheldene
- Bell barrow 300m south-east of Avebury Down Barn forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Field system and earthwork enclosure on Burderop Down
- Sharpridge earthworks
- Avebury henge and stone circles
- Dam of King's fishpond
- Bowl barrow 210m north east of Rushy Platt Farm
- Bowl barrow 375m east of Wick Bottom Barn
- Three bowl barrows: part of a barrow cemetery west of Barbury Castle
- Bowl barrow 630m north east of Wick Bottom Barn
- Bowl barrow 800m south-east of Barbury Barn
- Barbury Castle: a hillfort and bowl barrow
- Bowl barrow east of the Ridgeway forming part of the Overton Hill Bronze Age round barrow cemetery.
- Barrow on Coombe Down, 930yds (830m) WSW of St George's Church
- Silbury Hill: a monumental Neolithic mound west of the River Kennet and south of Avebury village
- Round barrow 750yds (690m) SE of Smeathe's Plantation
- Medieval settlement and associated ridge and furrow, West Leaze
- Bell barrow 200m north of Rockley Plantation
- Bowl barrow 1km west of Sheppard's Farm Dairy
- Penning bell barrow 600m east of Avebury Down Barn
- Black Field Roman site
- Bowl barrow forming part of a Bronze Age cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm on Overton Hill
- Liddington Castle
- Group of six round barrows forming part of a Bronze Age cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm
- Ditch 530yds (484m) SW of Stitchcombe Farm
- Three Roman burial mounds, a Bronze Age bowl barrow, a pagan Saxon inhumation cemetery and a short length of Roman road on Overton Hill.
- Bowl barrow 300m east of Ivy House Farm
- Wick Down Farm earthwork
- Horslip long barrow, 450m north-west of Horslip Bridge.
- Bowl barrow 50m north of Barrow Farm
- Pair of round barrows 400m west of the Ridgeway, forming part of a round barrow cemetery situated on Avebury 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 east of Lower Upham Farm
- Richardson medieval settlement
- Bowl barrow 800m south-east of Ogbourne St Andrew Farm
- Stone circle immediately north east of Day House, Coate
- Two bowl barrows 680m north of Upper Herdswick Farm, Barbury 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
- Barbury Castle Farm deserted Medieval village
- Castle mound
- Bowl barrow 750m south-east of Windmill Hill
- Bowl barrow 700m south west of Liddington Warren Farm
- Long Stones long barrow 150m north of Beckhampton House
- Preshute Down field system
- Enclosure on Ogbourne Down
- Round barrow cemetery 400m south of Avebury henge monument on Waden Hill
