Windmill Hill
Windmill Hill is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure in the English county of Wiltshire, part of the Avebury World Heritage Site, about 1 mile northwest of Avebury.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peak with an elevation of 643 feet
- Description: archaeological type site in Wiltshire, England
- Also known as: “Windmill Hill, Avebury”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Mary Magdalene, Winterbourne Monkton and Avebury Manor and Garden.
Church of St Mary Magdalene, Winterbourne Monkton
Church
Photo: Colin Bates, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Church of St Mary Magdalene is the Anglican church in the village of Winterbourne Monkton, north of Avebury in Wiltshire, England. It is a 19th-century rebuilding of a structure dating from the 14th century.
Avebury Manor and Garden
Historic building
Photo: JürgenMatern, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Avebury Manor & Garden is a National Trust property consisting of a Grade I listed early-16th-century manor house and its surrounding garden. It is in Avebury, near Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, in the centre of the village next to St James's Church and close to the Avebury neolithic henge monument.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Winterbourne Monkton and Yatesbury.
Winterbourne Monkton
Village
Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Winterbourne Monkton is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 1 mile north of Avebury Stone Circle and 6 miles northwest of Marlborough. The village lies immediately west of the A4361 road between Swindon and Devizes.
Yatesbury
Village
Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Yatesbury is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Cherhill, in Wiltshire, England. It is in the northeast of Cherhill parish, 1 mile north of the A4 road approximately 4 miles east of Calne and 9 miles west of Marlborough.
Berwick Bassett
Village
Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Berwick Bassett is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 6 miles northwest of Marlborough and 8 miles southwest of Swindon. The village is on the west bank of a headstream of the River Kennet and close to the A4361 road, formerly the A361, which links Devizes and Avebury with Wroughton and Swindon.
Windmill Hill
- Categories: archaeological site, hill, and landform
- Location: Avebury, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.44123° or 51° 26′ 28″ northLongitude
-1.87657° or 1° 52′ 36″ westElevation
643 feet (196 metres)Open location code
9C3WC4RF+F9OpenStreetMap ID
node 973672469OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Windmill Hill” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Windmill Hill”
- Cebuano: “Windmill Hill”
- Chinese: “風車山”
- Dutch: “Windmill Hill”
- Finnish: “Windmill Hill”
- French: “Windmill Hill”
- Italian: “Windmill Hill”
- Japanese: “ウィンドミル・ヒル”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Windmill Hill”
- Serbo-Croatian: “SU0875071449”
- Spanish: “Colina de Windmill”
- Spanish: “Windmill hill”
- Swedish: “Windmill Hill”
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Localities in the Area
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Highlights include Bronze Age Bell Barrow and Bronze Age Bowl Barrow.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Windmill Hill”. Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.