West Kington
West Kington is a village in the civil parish of Nettleton, in Wiltshire, England. The village lies in the steeply wooded valley of the Broadmead Brook, a source of the Bybrook River, and is close to the county boundary with Gloucestershire.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Colin Bates, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Wiltshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “West Kington, Wiltshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St James, North Wraxall and Bury Camp.
Bury Camp
Archaeological site
Bury Camp is the site of an Iron Age multivallate hillfort in north-west Wiltshire, England. It occupies a triangular promontory of Colerne Down, in the north of Colerne parish, at the southern edge of the Cotswold Hills between two spurs of a river valley. Bury Camp is situated 2 miles south of West Kington.
Church of All Saints
Church
Photo: Kevin Farmer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of All Saints is situated 2½ miles northeast of West Kington.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nettleton and North Wraxall.
Nettleton
Village
Nettleton is a village and civil parish about 6.5 miles northwest of Chippenham in Wiltshire, England. The parish includes the villages of Burton and West Kington, and the hamlets of Horsedown, Nettleton Shrub and West Kington Wick.
North Wraxall
Village
Photo: Robert Powell, CC BY-SA 3.0.
North Wraxall is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The village is about 6 miles west of Chippenham, just north of the A420 road between Chippenham and Bristol.
Burton
Village
Photo: Alc159, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Burton is a small village in the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Wiltshire, England. Kelly's 1915 Directory of Wiltshire identifies Burton as the most important part of the parish of Nettleton. It is about 8 miles west of Chippenham. Burton is situated 1½ miles north of West Kington.
West Kington
- Category: locality
- Location: Nettleton, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.49166° or 51° 29′ 30″ northLongitude
-2.27554° or 2° 16′ 32″ westElevation
367 feet (112 metres)Open location code
9C3VFPRF+MQOpenStreetMap ID
node 2732822466OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Swedish—“West Kington” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “West Kington”
- French: “West Kington”
- Irish: “West Kington”
- Polish: “West Kington”
- Swedish: “West Kington”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as West Kington Wick and Upper Wraxall.
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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 “West Kington”. Photo: Colin Bates, CC BY-SA 2.0.