West Overton
West Overton is a Town in the county of Wiltshire.
There are great places to visit near West Overton 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 West Overton.
Avebury, West Kennet Long Barrow, The Sanctuary, Silbury Hill, and Barbury Castle are some of West Overton best ancient sites to visit near West Overton.
There are a number of historic buildings near to West Overton including Avebury Manor.
Coate Water Country Park, Barbury Castle Country Park, and Lydiard Park are some of West Overton best country parks to visit near West Overton.
West Overton is near some unmissable lakes like Coate Water,
Lydiard Park is one of West Overton's best, nearby parks to visit in West Overton.
Villages to visit near West Overton include Ashton Keynes.
West Overton History
There are some historic monuments around West Overton:
- Barrow on Coombe Down, 930yds (830m) WSW of St George's Church
- Bowl barrow 640m south west of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a round barrow cemetery on North Down
- Bowl barrow 40m north west of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- 'The Spectacles'
- Bowl barrow 750m south west of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a round barrow cemetery on North Down
- Bowl barrow 750m south-east of Windmill Hill
- Bowl barrow 300m south of Fox Covert forming part of the Fox Covert round barrow cemetery on West Down
- Silbury Hill: a monumental Neolithic mound west of the River Kennet and south of Avebury village
- Earthwork W of New Town Farm
- Earthwork enclosure 950m SSE of Manor Farm
- Bowl barrow in The Belt, 350m north east of Hill Barn
- Three bowl barrows 600m south-west of Knap Cottage
- Three confluent round barrows 580m west of the Ridgeway, forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Medieval settlement remains immediately west of The Vicarage
- Barrow S of Wansdyke
- Prehistoric to post-medieval settlement, cultivation, industrial and funerary remains on Fyfield, Overton and Manton Downs
- Village settlement on Barton Down
- Knap Hill camp near Alton Priors
- Castle mound
- Pair of round barrows and section of linear earthwork NE of the gallops on West Down
- Sharpridge earthworks
- Barrow 350yds (320m) E of Smeathe's Plantation, Ogbourne Down
- Group of round barrows on Rough Hill
- Green Bank bowl barrow, 230m east of the Avebury henge monument
- Section of Wansdyke and associated monuments from east of The Firs to the eastern side of Tan Hill
- Bowl barrow 870m ESE of New Barn on Monkton 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
- Bowl barrow 750m east of New Barn
- Ditch W of Tanhill Fair
- Bowl barrow 800m north-east of Hackpen Barn
- Linear round barrow cemetery 200m ENE of West Kennett long barrow
- Saucer barrow: part of a barrow cemetery west of Barbury Castle
- Earthwork enclosure and dewpond 490m north of Barbury Castle
- Shrunken medieval village site E of Avebury Trusloe
- Barbury Castle Farm deserted Medieval village
- Group of barrows on Draycott Hill
- Sharpridge field system
- Bowl barrow 610m south east of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton Down
- Bowl barrow east of the Ridgeway forming part of the Overton Hill Bronze Age round barrow cemetery.
- Two enclosures on Winterbourne Down
- A causewayed enclosure, the core of a round barrow cemetery, part of a prehistoric field system and an associated mortuary enclosure on Windmill Hill
- Pair of bowl barrows 150m north of the Wansdyke on All Cannings Down
- Four earthwork enclosures on All Cannings Down
- Bowl barrow 750m south-west of Manor Farm: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery
- Bell barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm on Overton Hill
- Three sections of a linear earthwork south west of New Barn
- Enclosed Iron Age farmstead 450m south of Down Barn on Bishop's Cannings Down
- Bowl barrow 120m west of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- Pair of round barrows 200m SSE of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Long barrow and abutting bowl barrow 700m WSW of Beckhampton Buildings, forming the focus of a barrow cemetery on North Down
- Rybury camp
- Barbury Castle: a hillfort and bowl barrow
- Iron Age enclosure on Overton Hill, 600m north west of North Farm
- Ten barrows forming part of Fox Covert round barrow cemetery, West Down.
- Round barrow 750yds (690m) SE of Smeathe's Plantation
- Bowl barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery situated 120m NNW of Down Barn on North Down
- Grange bowl barrow 130m north west of The Grange Stables bell barrow, Beckhampton
- Bowl barrow 400m west of Cooks Plantation
- Enclosure on Horton Down
- Pair of round barrows 400m west of the Ridgeway, forming part of a round barrow cemetery situated on Avebury Down
- Penning bell barrow 600m east of Avebury Down Barn
- Field system and earthwork enclosure on Burderop Down
- Section of the Wansdyke
- Earthwork NW of New Town Farm
- Bowl barrow 690m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Earthwork enclosure on Allington Down
- Langdean stone circle
- West Kennet long barrow, 800m south-east of Silbury 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 from S of Furze Hill to Marlborough-Pewsey road
- Adam's Grave: a long barrow on Walker's Hill
- A henge, four Bronze Age barrows and part of a Roman road 500m south west of Fox Covert
- Harepit Way linear boundary
- Barrow on Smeathe's Ridge
- Bowl barrow 770m south west of the junction of the Ridgeway and Green Street, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Pair of bowl barrows forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Allington Down
- Linear barrow cemetery on Hackpen Hill
- Two saucer barrows and a pair of bowl barrows 750m SSW of Beckhampton Plantation, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton Down
- Bell barrow 600m west of Beckhampton Buildings
- Bowl barrow 950m SSW of Beckhampton Plantation, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton Down
- Bowl barrow 620m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Bowl barrow 200m south 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
- Earthwork enclosure on Milk Hill
- All Cannings Cross, an Early Iron Age settlement site
- The Sanctuary, Overton Hill
- Long barrow in Barrow Copse
- Bowl barrow 130m SSW of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a barrow cemetery situated on North Down
- Three Bronze Age barrows 200m NNW of Down Barn forming part of a barrow cemetery situated on North Down
- Bell barrow 350m south-west of Barbury Barn
- Two bowl barrows 680m north of Upper Herdswick Farm, Barbury Down
- Enclosure on Ogbourne Down
- Bowl barrow 750m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Four round barrows 740m east of Kitchen Barrow, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on All Cannings Down
- Group of five round barrows north-east of the Sanctuary: part of the Overton Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Wick Down Farm earthwork
- Bowl barrow 200m east of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a barrow cemetery
- Bell barrow 660m south east of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton Down
- Bowl barrow 400m south-east of Culley's Farm Cottages
- Bowl barrow 200m north of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- Bowl barrow 70m north of Green Street and east of the Avebury henge monument
- Dam of King's fishpond
- Bowl barrow 230m west of The Grange, Beckhampton
- Bowl barrow 1km west of Tan Hill
- 'Giant's Grave' long barrow on Milton Hill
- Mound in churchyard
- Bowl barrow forming part of a linear round barrow cemetery on Allington Down
- Three bowl barrows: part of a barrow cemetery west of Barbury Castle
- Earthworks on Marlborough Common
- Bell barrow on Easton Down
- Barrow on Avebury Down, S of track from Avebury
- Pair of Bronze Age bowl barrows 400m south west of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a cemetery on North Down
- Bell barrow situated between Bishop's Cannings Down and Easton Down
- Barrow on Coombe Down, 1070yds (980m) NE of Upper Poughcombe
- Six bowl barrows 560m north of New Barn: part of a barrow cemetery on Monkton Down
- Kitchen Barrow: a long barrow on Kitchen Barrow Hill
- Saucer barrow 250m east of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery
- Round barrow cemetery 400m south of Avebury henge monument on Waden Hill
- Bowl barrow 50m north east of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery
- Round barrow cemetery and part of a field system 200m south of Beckhampton Penning
- Two bowl barrows 320m south-east of Little London
- Bowl barrow forming part of a cemetery 800m east of Kitchen Barrow
- Bowl barrow forming part of a Bronze Age cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm on Overton Hill
- Bowl barrow 300m east of Ivy House Farm
- Bowl barrow 800m south of Hemp Knoll
- Bowl barrow 650m ESE of New Barn, between Avebury Down and Monkton Down
- Bowl barrow 500m north-west of Berwick Bassett Clump
- The Hatfield Earthwork: a henge enclosure, henge and remains of monumental mound at Marden
- East Kennett long barrow, 600m south of East Kennett church
- Group of small enclosures on Horton Down, 910m north east of Easton Down long barrow
- Bell barrow 75m west of Red Shore
- Group of four round barrows 500m south-east of Avebury Down Barn, forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Pair of round barrows forming part of the Bronze Age round barrow cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm
- Field system E of Kitchen Barrow Hill
- Field system 275yds (250m) N of Field Barn
- Martinsell Hill camp
- Bowl barrow 750m south-east of Barbury Castle Farm
- Two bowl barrows 670m south east of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton Down
- Bowl barrow 880m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Bowl barrow 900m SSE of Green Bank
- West Kennett Farm palisaded enclosures
- Preshute Down field system
- Saucer barrow 600m west of Beckhampton Buildings
- Grange Stables bell barrow
- West Kennet bell barrow, 160m north-west of West Kennet long barrow
- Three bell barrows and a pillow mound 400m south-west of Knap Cottage
- Bowl barrow 70m north of Rockley Plantation
- Winterbourne Bassett mound
- Bowl barrow north-east of Everleigh Ashes
- Settlement and field system on Milton Hill (Fyfield Down)
- Site of an oval stone circle and part of an adjacent field system 700m SW of West Kennet long barrow.
- Bowl barrow 150m north of the Alton White Horse
- Earth Burgh (or Eorth Burh) NW of New Town Farm
- Wansdyke: section 610yds (560m) NW of Wernham Farm to 250yds (230m) SW of New Buildings
- Bell barrow and adjacent bowl barrow on Marlborough Common, 120m east of Wootton Bassett Road
- Avebury henge and stone circles
- Bowl barrow 50m north of Barrow Farm
- Long barrow on Horton Down
- Withy Copse ditch
- Beckhampton round barrow cemetery 150m north east of the `Waggon and Horses'
- Bowl barrow 375m east of Wick Bottom Barn
- Bowl barrow 630m north east of Wick Bottom Barn
- Bell barrow 200m north of Rockley Plantation
- Bowl barrow 50m south of The Sanctuary on Overton Hill, forming part of the Seven Barrow Hill round barrow cemetery
- Horslip long barrow, 450m north-west of Horslip Bridge.
- Bowl barrow 1km west of Sheppard's Farm Dairy
- Group of six round barrows forming part of a Bronze Age cemetery 400m north-east of West Kennett Farm
- Avebury Long Stones 380m east of The Grange Stables, Beckhampton
- Bowl barrow 500m west of The Row
- Medieval village site
- South Street long barrow, 70m south east of the Long Stones
- Bowl barrow on Kitchen Barrow Hill
- Bowl barrow immediately west of the Ridgeway, 400m north east of its junction with Green Street
- Two round barrows W of New Town Farm
- Bowl barrow 200m east of Windmill Hill: part of the Windmill Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Bowl barrow 800m south-east of Tanhill Penning
- Bowl barrow 200m north-east of Everleigh Ashes
- Earthwork enclosure N of Wansdyke
- Two earthwork enclosures and a linear earthwork 625m north of Barbury Castle
- Bowl barrow 700m south-east of Windmill Hill
- Bowl barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Allington Down
- Devil's Den long barrow, 600m east of White Acre
- Bowl barrow situated 60m west of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a round barrow cemetery on North Down
- Remains of `Falkner's Circle', a Neolithic stone circle 180m east of the West Kennet Avenue
- Stone circle
- Pair of bowl barrows on West Down, 550m east of Witch Plantation
- Long Stones long barrow 150m north of Beckhampton House
- Giant's Grave (Martinsell Hill)
- Long barrow on Easton Down
- Section of Roman Road 560m north east of Beckhampton Buildings
- Pair of bowl barrows 650m south west of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on North Down
- Richardson medieval settlement
- Bowl barrow 1km north-east of Avebury and 70m north of Green Street
- West Kennet Avenue and an earthwork bank east of West Kennett Farm
- Disc barrow on Burderop Down, 1km north-east of Upper Herdswick Farm
- Bowl barrow and a saucer barrow 200m north of Rockley Plantation
- Bowl barrow 800m south-east of Barbury Barn
- Bowl barrow 1450m south of Barbury Castle Farm
- Bowl barrow 50m south-east of the `Sanctuary' forming part of the Overton Hill round barrow cemetery.
- Bowl barrow 900m south west of the junction of the Ridgeway and Green Street, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Round barrow forming part of the Fox Covert round barrow cemetery on West Down
- Two bowl barrows 400m south of Tanhill Penning
- Bowl barrow 800m south-east of Ogbourne St Andrew Farm
- Bowl barrow 300m south-east of Walker's Plantation
- Two bowl barrows 820m north of Rockley Manor: part of the Rockley Plantation barrow cemetery
- Pair of Bronze Age bowl barrows 200m WSW of Beckhampton Buildings forming part of a barrow cemetery situated on North Down
- Swanborough Tump
- Group of four round barrows 300m north west of the junction between the Ridgeway and Green Street on Avebury Down
- Bell barrow 300m south-east of Avebury Down Barn forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Avebury Down
- Ogbourne Maizey Down round barrow
- Bowl barrow forming part of a linear round barrow cemetery on Allington Down
