Silchester
Silchester is a village and civil parish about 5 miles north of Basingstoke in Hampshire. It is adjacent to the county boundary with Berkshire and about 9 miles southwest of Reading.Photo: Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 774 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Hampshire, UK
- Also known as: “Calleva Atrebatum” and “Silchester, Hampshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Calleva Atrebatum and The Frith.
Calleva Atrebatum
Archaeological site
Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Calleva Atrebatum was an Iron Age oppidum, the capital of the Atrebates tribe. It then became a walled town in the Roman province of Britannia, at a major crossroads of the roads of southern Britain.
The Frith
Archaeological site
Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Frith is a small univallate Iron Age hillfort to the north of Silchester, Calleva Atrebatum, Roman town in the English county of Hampshire. A single bank covers all sides apart from the south east, and is at the most about 5 feet high on the western edge.
Pamber Forest and Silchester Common
Forest
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Pamber Forest and Silchester Common is a 341.7-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Tadley in Hampshire. Pamber Forest and Upper Inhams Copse is managed by the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pamber Heath and Little London.
Pamber Heath
Village
Photo: Colin Bates, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pamber Heath is a village in north Hampshire, England. Situated within the civil parish of Pamber, the village lies at the north end of Pamber Forest.
Little London
Village
Photo: Colin Bates, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Little London is a village situated between the North Hampshire Downs and the gravel plains of the Kennet valley, 7 miles north of Basingstoke and 15 miles south of Reading. Little London is situated 1½ miles south of Silchester.
Tadley
Tadley is a town and civil parish in the Basingstoke and Deane district of Hampshire, England, 5.5 miles north of Basingstoke and 11 miles south west of Reading.
Silchester
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Silchester, Basingstoke and Deane, Hampshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.35404° or 51° 21′ 15″ northLongitude
-1.10074° or 1° 6′ 3″ westPopulation
774Elevation
331 feet (101 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB SLROpen location code
9C3W9V3X+JPOpenStreetMap ID
node 30796118OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Silchester” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Silchester”
- Albanian: “Silchester”
- Arabic: “سيلتشيستير”
- Aragonese: “Silchester”
- Asturian: “Silchester”
- Basque: “Silchester”
- Bavarian: “Silchester”
- Bosnian: “Silchester”
- Breton: “Silchester”
- Bulgarian: “Силчестер”
- Catalan: “Silchester”
- Cebuano: “Silchester”
- Chinese: “西尔切斯特”
- Chinese: “西爾切斯特”
- Chinese: “錫爾切斯特”
- Chinese: “锡尔切斯特”
- Corsican: “Silchester”
- Croatian: “Silchester”
- Czech: “Silchester”
- Danish: “Silchester”
- Dutch: “Silchester”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سيلتشيستير”
- Esperanto: “Silchester”
- Estonian: “Silchester”
- Faroese: “Silchester”
- Finnish: “Silchester”
- French: “Silchester”
- Galician: “Silchester”
- German: “Silchester”
- Hungarian: “Silchester”
- Icelandic: “Silchester”
- Indonesian: “Silchester”
- Irish: “Silchester”
- Italian: “Silchester”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Silchester”
- Japanese: “シルチェスター”
- Ladin: “Silchester”
- Latin: “Silchester”
- Latvian: “Silchester”
- Lithuanian: “Silchester”
- Low German: “Silchester”
- Lower Sorbian: “Silchester”
- Luxembourgish: “Silchester”
- Maltese: “Silchester”
- Minangkabau: “Silchester”
- Northern Frisian: “Silchester”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Silchester”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Silchester”
- Norwegian: “Silchester”
- Persian: “سیلچستر”
- Polish: “Silchester”
- Portuguese: “Silchester”
- Romanian: “Silchester”
- Romansh: “Silchester”
- Sardinian: “Silchester”
- Scots: “Silchester”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Silchester”
- Sicilian: “Silchester”
- Slovak: “Silchester”
- Slovenian: “Silchester”
- Spanish: “Silchester”
- Swedish: “Silchester”
- Swiss German: “Silchester”
- Tagalog: “Silchester”
- Turkish: “Silchester”
- Upper Sorbian: “Silchester”
- Vlaams: “Silchester”
- Walloon: “Silchester”
- Welsh: “Silchester”
- Western Frisian: “Silchester”
- “Silchester”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Silchester Village Hall and Silchester Church of England Primary School.
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