Warminster
Warminster is a Town in the county of Wiltshire.
There are great places to visit near Warminster including some great historic monuments, ancient sites, historic buildings, country parks, lakes and villages.
Historic Monuments to visit near Warminster include Lansdowne Monument, Cherhill White Horse, and Avebury.
Ancient Sites to visit near Warminster include Avebury, West Kennet Long Barrow, The Sanctuary, and Silbury Hill.
The area close to Warminster boasts some of the best historic buildings including Avebury Manor.
There are a several good country parks in the area around Warminster like Coate Water Country Park.
The area around Warminster's best lakes can be found at Coate Water.
Don't miss Ashton Keynes's villages if visiting the area around Warminster.
Warminster History
There are some historic monuments around Warminster:
- Regular aggregate field system and double lynchet trackway 640m south east and 460m east of Dee Barn
- Two round barrows in Chaddenwick Furze
- Two bowl barrows and a saucer barrow on Picquet Hill
- Long barrow on Cold Kitchen Hill
- Bowl barrow 750m north east of Newmead Cottages
- Medieval settlement and associated field systems west of Brook Farm
- Bowl barrow on Cold Kitchen Hill, 910m north east of Seagram's Barn
- Bowl barrow 760m north west of The Down House
- Enclosure south-east of White Horse Farm
- Three bowl barrows on Whitepits Down
- Bowl barrow: one of a dispersed group of five barrows adjacent to the Imber-Warminster track
- Pond Bottom round barrow
- Barrow NE of Mere Down Farm
- Bowl barrow on South Down Sleight
- Bowl barrow: one of three round barrows on Thirteen Hundred Down
- Bowl barrow 500m south-east of Eastleigh Court
- Cross dyke 870m north west of Burton Farm
- Edington Priory (site of)
- White Sheet camp
- Strip lynchet system north of Cotley Hill
- Long barrow on Pertwood Down, 1400m north-west of Lower Pertwood
- Bowl barrow 670m SSE of Kingston Dairy
- Cross dyke on Mere Down, east of White Sheet Hill hillfort
- Medieval strip lynchets 370m south of Greater Lane Farm
- Robin Hood's Bower earthwork enclosure in Southleigh Wood
- Two saucer barrows 775m south east of Rodmead Farm
- Section of Roman road on Pertwood Down
- Combe lynchet system on Oxendean Down
- Strip lynchets south of Westdown Farm
- Bowl barrow 125m south of Dairy Farm
- Bowl barrow 1480m east of Keysley Farm
- Enclosure on the summit of Rodmead Hill
- Motte and double ringwork east of Bishopstrow Farm
- Medieval strip lynchets 280m west of Hill Barn
- Bowl barrow south-east of The Crott
- Bowl barrow on the summit of Cop Heap
- Bowl barrow on Brimsdown Hill, 100m south of Duke's Clump
- Bowl barrow 240m north of Mere Down Farm
- Bowl barrow 500m south of Upton Scudamore
- Oval barrow 1260m north west of Mere Down Farm
- Scrubbed Oak enclosure and linear boundary earthwork
- Strip lynchet system west of Patcombe Hill
- Bowl barrow 1110m south east of St Michael's Church
- Romano-Celtic temple and late prehistoric midden immediately south of Woodcombe Wood, 1.1km north east of Dairy Farm
- Rough Barrow, round barrow, south of Sealland Cross
- Bowl barrow: one of three round barrows on Four Hundred Down
- Two bowl barrows and a pond barrow, 720m and 760m NE of Wood Farm
- Bowl barrow 600m south west of the northernmost of The Druses
- Bowl barrow 650m south east of Baycliffe Farm
- Bowl barrow 40m south of Buckler's Wood
- Bowl barrow south of Biss Farm, Upton Scudamore
- Bowl barrow 270m south west of Norton Bavant House
- Bowl barrow: one of a group of dispersed barrows south-east of Norton Plantation
- Bowl barrow 50m west of St Mary's Church
- Bowl barrow 730m south of Greater Lane Farm
- The Devil's Bed and Bolster long barrow
- Strip lynchets immediately south west of Woodcombe Cleve
- Dunge moated site
- Disc barrow 350m west of Dee Barn
- Scratchbury Hill Monuments: Iron age hillfort, round barrows and enclosures
- Bowl barrow 445m south west of East Farm
- Three bowl barrows north of South Down Sleight
- The Park round barrow
- Bowl barrow 700m south east of Field Barn
- Round barrow on the summit of Cotley Hill
- Hill Deverill medieval settlement
- Bowl barrow 640m south east of Greater Lane Farm
- Moated site on the West Wiltshire Industrial Estate
- Bowl barrow 1.1km ESE of White Sheet Castle
- Bowl Barrow: one of a dispersed group of five barrows adjacent to the Imber-Warminster track
- Bowl barrow immediately east of Bishopstrow House
- Bowl barrow 150m east of Marcombe Wood
- Linear boundary on Bidcombe Down and Whitepits Down
- Strip lynchets south of Bigbury Wood
- Moated site 400m east of Penleigh House
- Iron Age earthwork enclosure on Mancombe Down
- Bowl barrow 300m south of Eastleigh Court
- Long barrow 250m east of Polebridge Farm
- Bratton Camp Iron Age hillfort, the Westbury White Horse, barrows and trackways on Bratton Down
- Round Barrow on Summer Down
- Pair of bowl barrows 1050m NNW of Pertwood Wood
- Bowl barrow 880m north east of Field Barn Farm
- Battlesbury Camp Monuments: hillfort, settlement, cemetery, barrows, enclosure, and field systems
- Bell barrow 350m north of Haydon Farm
- Bell barrow on Rook Hill, 200m west of Pertwood Wood
- Oxendean Down long barrow
- Hillfort, two bowl barrows, medieval strip lynchets and a cross dyke on Cley Hill
- Bowl barrow: one of three round barrows on Four Hundred Down
- Henge monument 350m north-east of Long Ivor Farm
- Section of Roman road 760m south west of Lower Barn Farm
- Bowl barrow: one of a group of dispersed barrows south-east of Norton Plantation
- Bowl barrow north of White Horse Farm
- Bowl barrow east of Court Hill Plantation
- Rabbit warren 580m and 660m south east of Fitzroy Farm
- Long barrow on Keysley Down, 1020m NNE of Chapel Field Barn
- Bowl barrow: one of a group of dispersed barrows south-east of Norton Plantation
- Romano-British village on Tytherington Hill
- Bowl barrow 85m north of Bishopstrow House
- Bowl barrow in High Park on south facing slope of Fonthill Down
- Enclosure and linear earthworks between Bishopstrow Down and South Down Sleight
- Monk's Conduit well house
- Saucer barrow above Boar's Bottom
- Bowl barrow on Oxendean Down
- Round barrow east of South Down Sleight
- Field system on the north west facing slope of Dane's Bottom, 400m north of Dee Barn
- Bowl barrow 560m north east of Lord's Hill Farm
- Earthwork enclosure in Great Ridge wood, 350m north east of Point Pond
- Two bowl barrows 560m and 670m east of Rodmead Farm
- Earthwork enclosure 850m north of Mere Down Farm
- Bowl barrow 850m north west of Lower Pertwood Farm
- Earthwork on White Sheet Downs, 800yds (730m) S of Coombe Barn
- Bowl barrow on Keysley Down, 250m west of the A350 Warminster-Shaftesbury Road
- White Sheet Hill ditch
- Earthwork enclosure in Penning Wood, 290m NE of Penning
- Bell barrow on Parsonage Down, 1.3km south east of Lord's Hill Farm
- Strip lynchet system east of Cotley Hill Woods
- Bowl barrow: one of a group of dispersed barrows south-east of Norton Plantation
- Bowl barrow 735m SSE of Kingston Dairy
- Bowl barrow 140m west of Cleeve
- King Barrow: a long barrow 100m north of Bishopstrow House
- Bowl barrow: one of three round barrows on Thirteen Hundred Down
- Bowl barrow 250m north of Truncombe Wood
- Bowl Barrow: one of a group of dispersed barrows south-east of Norton Plantation
- Bowl barrow: one of three round barrows on Thirteen Hundred Down
- Bowl barrow to the north of Long Bottom, 1.6km north east of Hammersmith
- Bowl barrow: one of a group of dispersed barrows south-east of Norton Plantation
- Bowl barrow on Littlecombe Down
- Norton Down long barrow
- Enclosure and bowl barrow on Charnage Down, north west of Chaddenwick Hill
- Two cross ridge dykes 710m and 790m east of Wellhead Farm
- Long barrow, Tinhead Hill
- Bowl barrow 130m south-west of North End Farm
- Roman Villa at Brixton Deverill
- Middlehill settlement and associated cultivation earthworks.
- Bowl barrow 1050m north east of Wood Farm
- Medieval moated site 110m north west of Grange Farm
- Colloway Clump long barrow
- Bowl barrow south-west of Knapp Down
- Bowl's Barrow, long barrow
- Corton long barrow
- Middleton Down long barrow
- Four lynchets 610m west of Kingston Dairy
- West Hill long barrow
- A pair of bowl barrows 225m south east of Boreham Mill
- Bowl barrow 200m south-west of Keysley Farm
- Bowl barrow on Cold Kitchen Hill, 740m north east of Seagram's Barn
- Bowl barrow: one of three round barrows on Four Hundred Down
- Romano-Celtic temple 300m south west of Keysley Farm
- Barrow 300yds (270m) NE of White Sheet camp
- Bowl barrow 500m north of Starveall
- Middle Hill round barrow
- Round barrow SW of Parsonage Down
- Bowl barrow on Arn Hill Down, 450m east of New Farm
- Iron Age settlement on Cow Down, 990m north west of Haycombe Hill Farm
- Bowl barrow 700m south-west of Keysley Farm
- Bowl barrow 800m south east of Fitzroy Farm
- Cross ridge dyke on Warminster Down
- Bowl barrow 940m north east of Wood Farm
- The Knoll: a bell barrow 300m west of Manor Farm
- Round barrow on the south side of Cotley Hill
- Bowl barrow north of Dirtley Wood
- Lock up 20m south of Little London Cottage in the High Street
- Cross dyke 920m north east of Dairy Farm
- Bowl Barrow: one of a dispersed group of five barrows adjacent to the Imber-Warminster track
- Bowl barrow on edge of Dirtley Wood
