Chitterne
Chitterne is a village and civil parish in the county of Wiltshire, in the south west of England. The village lies in the middle of Salisbury Plain, about 7 miles east of the town of Warminster.Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 307 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Wiltshire, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Chittern” and “Chitterne, Wiltshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chapel Of St Mary, Chitterne and Knook Castle.
Chapel Of St Mary, Chitterne
Church
Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chapel Of St Mary, Chitterne is a church.
Knook Castle
Archaeological site
Photo: Phil Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Knook Castle is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort on Knook Down, near the village of Knook in Wiltshire, England, but largely within the civil parish of Upton Lovell. Knook Castle is situated 2 miles west of Chitterne.
Copehill Down
Military training area
Copehill Down is a Ministry of Defence training facility near Chitterne on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England. It is a 'FIBUA' urban warfare and close quarters battle training centre, where exercises and tests are conducted.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Codford St Peter and Imber.
Codford St Peter
Locality
Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Codford is a civil parish south of Salisbury Plain in the Wylye Valley in Wiltshire, England. Its settlements are the adjacent villages of Codford St Peter and Codford St Mary, which lie some 7 miles southeast of Warminster. Codford St Peter is situated 3 miles southwest of Chitterne.
Imber
Village
Imber is an uninhabited village and former civil parish within the British Army's training area, now in the parish of Heytesbury, on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England. Imber is situated 3 miles northwest of Chitterne.
Tilshead
Village
Photo: Miss Steel, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tilshead is a village and civil parish in the county of Wiltshire in Southern England, about 9 miles northwest of the town of Amesbury. It is close to the geographical centre of Salisbury Plain, on the A360 road approximately midway between the villages of Shrewton and West Lavington and is near the source of the River Till. Tilshead is situated 3½ miles northeast of Chitterne.
Chitterne
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Chitterne, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.1964° or 51° 11′ 47″ northLongitude
-2.01187° or 2° 0′ 43″ westPopulation
307Elevation
322 feet (98 metres)Open location code
9C3V5XWQ+H7OpenStreetMap ID
node 340421249OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2653119Wikidata ID
Q1215922
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Welsh—“Chitterne” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Читерне”
- Cebuano: “Chitterne”
- Chinese: “Chitterne”
- Dutch: “Chitterne”
- French: “Chitterne”
- Irish: “Chitterne”
- Ladin: “Chitterne”
- Latin: “Chitterne”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chitterne”
- Persian: “چیترن”
- Polish: “Chitterne”
- Swedish: “Chitterne”
- Turkish: “Chitterne”
- Welsh: “Chitterne”
- “Chitterne”
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