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