Silchester

Silchester is a village and civil parish about 5 miles north of in . It is adjacent to the county boundary with and about 9 miles south-west of .
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Wikipedia
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  • 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.

Archaeological site
Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.

Archaeological site
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is a small univallate Iron Age hillfort to the north of Silchester, , Roman town in the English county of . A single bank covers all sides apart from the south east, and is at the most about 5 feet high on the western edge.

Forest
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is a 341.7-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in in . 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.

Village
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is a village in north , England. Situated within the civil parish of , the village lies at the north end of .

Village
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is a village situated between the North Downs and the gravel plains of the valley, 7 miles north of and 15 miles south of . is situated 1½ miles south of Silchester.

Photo: Simon Q, CC BY 2.0.
is a town and civil parish in the district of , England, 5.5 miles north of and 11 miles south west of .

Silchester

Latitude
51.35404° or 51° 21′ 15″ north
Longitude
-1.10074° or 1° 6′ 3″ west
Population
774
Elevation
331 feet (101 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB SLR
Open location code
9C3W9V3X+JP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30796118
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2637846
Wiki­data ID
Q1231912
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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”
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  • 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”
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  • Egyptian Arabic: “سيلتشيستير”
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  • Italian: “Silchester”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Silchester”
  • Japanese: “シルチェスター”
  • Ladin: “Silchester”
  • Latin: “Silchester”
  • Latvian: “Silchester”
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  • Low German: “Silchester”
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  • 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”
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  • Tagalog: “Silchester”
  • Turkish: “Silchester”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Silchester”
  • Vlaams: “Silchester”
  • Walloon: “Silchester”
  • Welsh: “Silchester”
  • Western Frisian: “Silchester”
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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Silchester Village Hall and Silchester Church of England Primary School.

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