Pewsey
Pewsey is a Town in the county of Wiltshire.
There are great places to visit near Pewsey including some great historic monuments, ancient sites, historic buildings, country parks, lakes, parks and villages.
Don't miss Lansdowne Monument, Cherhill White Horse, and Avebury's historic monuments if visiting the area around Pewsey.
Don't miss Avebury, West Kennet Long Barrow, The Sanctuary, Silbury Hill, and Barbury Castle's ancient sites if visiting the area around Pewsey.
The area close to Pewsey boasts some of the best historic buildings including Avebury Manor.
Coate Water Country Park, Barbury Castle Country Park, and Lydiard Park are some of Pewsey best country parks to visit near Pewsey.
Don't miss Coate Water's lakes if visiting the area around Pewsey.
There are a several good parks in the area around Pewsey like Lydiard Park.
Ashton Keynes is a great place to visit close to Pewsey if you like villages.
Pewsey History
There are some historic monuments around Pewsey:
- Everleigh Barrows
- Iron Age enclosure on Overton Hill, 600m north west of North Farm
- Enclosed settlement 450m north of Bake Barn
- Linear earthwork NW of Sidbury camp
- Green Bank bowl barrow, 230m east of the Avebury henge monument
- Withy Copse ditch
- Figheldean Down prehistoric landscape
- Bowl barrow 150m north of the Alton White Horse
- Three sections of a linear earthwork south west of New Barn
- Earthwork enclosure N of Wansdyke
- Wansdyke: section from S of Furze Hill to Marlborough-Pewsey road
- Bowl barrow in The Belt, 350m north east of Hill Barn
- Bowl barrow 50m south-east of the `Sanctuary' forming part of the Overton Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Bowl barrow 900m SSE of Green Bank
- Enford Roman villa
- Bell barrow on Haxton Down
- Bowl barrow, Round Down Copse
- Langdean stone circle
- Two bowl barrows 400m south of Summer Down Farm
- Bowl barrow 1km north-east of Avebury and 70m north of Green Street
- Defended settlement on Aughton Down, 450m north of Croft Barn
- Bowl barrow 120m west of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- Disc barrow: one of a dispersed group of round barrows on Weather Hill
- West Kennet bell barrow, 160m north-west of West Kennet long barrow
- Devil's Den long barrow, 600m east of White Acre
- Strip lynchets north-east of East Chisenbury
- Bowl barrow 200m east of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a barrow cemetery
- Two bowl barrows 350m south east of Baden Down Farm
- Earthworks on Marlborough Common
- Barrow S of Wansdyke
- Ditch 530yds (484m) SW of Stitchcombe Farm
- Shrunken medieval village site E of Avebury Trusloe
- Bowl barrow south-east of Sidbury Hill
- Casterley Camp and associated monuments
- Dam of King's fishpond
- Bowl barrow 900m south west of the junction of the Ridgeway and Green Street, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- West Kennet Avenue and an earthwork bank east of West Kennett Farm
- Chisenbury Warren Romano-British settlement and associated trackway
- Two of a dispersed group of round barrows on Weather 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
- East Croft Coppice earthwork
- Sidbury Hill and associated monuments
- Four earthwork enclosures on All Cannings Down
- Two of three round barrows south-west of Sun Plantation
- Bowl barrow: one of three round barrows south-west of Sun Plantation
- Bell barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm on Overton Hill
- Round barrow in the grounds of RAF Upavon
- Trackway, ditch and bell barrow on Longstreet Down
- Bowl barrow 800m south-east of Tanhill Penning
- Section of boundary earthwork east of Sidbury Hill
- Group of five round barrows north-east of the Sanctuary: part of the Overton Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Romano-British kilns, Column Ride, Savernake Forest
- Knap Hill camp near Alton Priors
- Field system south of East Everleigh
- Castle mound
- The Weather Hill multiperiod landscape and associated linear earthworks
- Three confluent round barrows 580m west of the Ridgeway, forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Linear earthwork 500yds (460m) S of Sidbury camp
- Linear earthwork in Savernake Forest, S of Great Lodge Bottom
- Strip lynchet system north of Chisman's Cleeve
- Enclosure on Everleigh Down, south-west of Snail Clump
- Three bell barrows and a pillow mound 400m south-west of Knap Cottage
- Disc barrow at Easton Clump
- West Kennet long barrow, 800m south-east of Silbury Hill
- West Chisenbury Settlement
- Bell barrow 300m south-east of Avebury Down Barn forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Bowl barrow 50m north of Barrow Farm
- Round barrow on Easton Down
- Bowl barrow 400m south-east of Cadley Vicarage
- Field system north-east of Chisenbury Field Barn
- Bell barrow 75m west of Red Shore
- Bowl barrow north-east of Everleigh Ashes
- Easton Clump settlement
- Bowl barrow 450m south-west of Savernake Lodge
- Pair of round barrows forming part of the Bronze Age round barrow cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm
- Two bowl barrows 400m south of Tanhill Penning
- Bowl barrow north of splinterproof shelter, Larkhill Artillery Range
- Giant's Grave (Martinsell Hill)
- Linear round barrow cemetery 200m ENE of West Kennett long barrow
- Camp on Forest Hill
- Martinsell Hill camp
- Section of boundary earthwork north-west of Sidbury Hill
- Three Roman burial mounds, a Bronze Age bowl barrow, a pagan Saxon inhumation cemetery and a short length of Roman road on Overton Hill.
- Wansdyke: section 610yds (560m) NW of Wernham Farm to 250yds (230m) SW of New Buildings
- Barrow on Avebury Down, S of track from Avebury
- Snail Down barrow cemetery and associated monuments.
- Bowl barrow 50m south of The Sanctuary on Overton Hill, forming part of the Seven Barrow Hill round barrow cemetery
- Earthwork NW of New Town Farm
- Swanborough Tump
- Two of a dispersed group of round barrows on Weather Hill
- Two bowl barrows 400m east of Cadley Vicarage
- Bowl barrow 200m north of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- Round barrow south-west of Compton 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
- Bowl barrow 500m west of The Row
- Boundary earthwork on Upavon Down
- Two round barrows west of Hougoumont Farm
- Romano-British settlement and associated earthworks on Coombe Down, 760m east of Bake Barn
- Avebury henge and stone circles
- Section of the Wansdyke
- Bowl barrow 40m north west of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- Bowl barrow 400m south-east of Culley's Farm Cottages
- Round barrow cemetery 320m south east of Down Farm
- Bowl barrow: one of two round barrows west of Haxton Down
- Old Hat Barrow, bowl barrow
- Long barrow in Barrow Copse
- Bowl barrow east of the Ridgeway forming part of the Overton Hill Bronze Age round barrow cemetery.
- Bowl barrow on Longstreet Down
- Bowl barrow 275m west of Square Copse: part of the Square Copse barrow cemetery
- Henge Monument/enclosure, on Everleigh Down, north of Weather Hill Firs
- Village settlement on Barton Down
- Adam's Grave: a long barrow on Walker's Hill
- Site of an oval stone circle and part of an adjacent field system 700m SW of West Kennet long barrow.
- Two round barrows W of New Town Farm
- Earthwork W of New Town Farm
- Medieval settlement remains immediately west of The Vicarage
- Five bowl barrows 600m north-east of Brimslade Farm Cottages: part of the Square Copse barrow cemetery
- Lidbury Camp, associated trackways and bowl barrow, on Littlecott Down
- Bowl barrow: one of a dispersed group of round barrows on Weather Hill
- Bohune Down round barrow
- 'The Spectacles'
- Bowl barrow: one of a dispersed group of round barrows on Weather Hill
- Bowl barrow 175m west of Square Copse: part of the Square Copse barrow cemetery
- Earthwork enclosure on Milk Hill
- Pair of round barrows 400m west of the Ridgeway, forming part of a round barrow cemetery situated on Avebury Down
- Compton Farm Romano-British and Early Medieval occupation sites and associated cultivation earthworks
- The Sanctuary, Overton Hill
- Group of four round barrows 500m south-east of Avebury Down Barn, forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- East Kennett long barrow, 600m south of East Kennett church
- Group of six round barrows forming part of a Bronze Age cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm
- Round barrow cemetery 400m south of Avebury henge monument on Waden Hill
- Bowl barrow forming part of a Bronze Age cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm on Overton Hill
- Bowl barrow north of Jenner's Firs
- Bowl barrow 300m east of Ivy House Farm
- Group of four round barrows 300m north west of the junction between the Ridgeway and Green Street on Avebury Down
- Bowl barrow 50m north east of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- Bowl barrow five hundred metres north-west of Baden Down Farm
- Settlement and field system on Milton Hill (Fyfield Down)
- Bell barrow and adjacent bowl barrow on Marlborough Common, 120m east of Wootton Bassett Road
- Enclosure east of Baden Down Farm
- Remains of `Falkner's Circle', a Neolithic stone circle 180m east of the West Kennet Avenue
- West Kennett Farm palisaded enclosures
- Enclosure west of Hound Plantation
- Earth Burgh (or Eorth Burh) NW of New Town Farm
- Pair of bowl barrows 150m north of the Wansdyke on All Cannings Down
- Crowdown Clump earthwork (Godsbury)
- Bowl barrow 650m east of Summer Down Farm
- Black Field Roman site
- Silbury Hill: a monumental Neolithic mound west of the River Kennet and south of Avebury village
- Three bowl barrows 600m south-west of Knap Cottage
- Bowl barrow: one of two round barrows west of Haxton Down
- Earthwork enclosure 950m SSE of Manor Farm
- Bowl barrow 200m north-east of Everleigh Ashes
- Bowl barrow 70m north of Green Street and east of the Avebury henge monument
- Group of barrows on Draycott Hill
- Enclosure, probably unfinished, west of Sun Plantation
- 'Giant's Grave' long barrow on Milton Hill
- A group of sixteen round barrows on Cow Down
