Chisledon

Chiseldon is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Swindon, Wiltshire, England. The village lies on the edge of the Marlborough Downs, a mile south of junction 15 of the M4 motorway, on the A346 between Swindon and Marlborough.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Liddington Castle and Church of the Holy Cross.

Liddington Castle

Archaeological site

Photo: Philipjelley, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Liddington Castle, locally called Liddington Camp, is a late Bronze Age and early Iron Age univallate hillfort in Liddington parish in the English county of Wiltshire, and a scheduled monument. Liddington Castle is situated 2 miles northeast of Chisledon.

Church of the Holy Cross

Church

Photo: Lorddunvegan, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Burderop Wood

Forest

Burderop Wood is a 48.5 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, notified in 1971. The site contains wet ash-maple and acid pedunculate oak-hazel-ash woodland, and its notification as an SSSI due to this, particular richness of the associated ground flora. Burderop Wood is situated 2 miles northwest of Chisledon.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Draycot Foliat and Badbury.

Draycot Foliat

Hamlet

Photo: David Hawgood, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Draycot Foliat is a hamlet in the civil parish of Chiseldon, in the Swindon district, in the ceremonial county of Wiltshire, England, on the back road between Chiseldon to the north and Ogbourne St.

Badbury

Hamlet

Badbury is a hamlet of the civil parish of Chiseldon in Wiltshire, England. It lies approximately 3 kilometres to the south of Swindon, close to the M4 motorway. Badbury is situated 1½ miles northeast of Chisledon.

Chisledon

Type: Locality
Location: Chiseldon, Swindon, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.5° or 51° 30′ north

Longitude

-1.73333° or 1° 44′ west

Elevation

568 feet (173 metres)

Open location code

9C3WG728+2M

GeoNames ID

2653125

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