Biddestone
Biddestone is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Biddestone and Slaughterford, in northwest Wiltshire, England, about 3 miles west of Chippenham and 2 miles north of Corsham. The parish includes the smaller settlement of Slaughterford.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Phil Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 498 residents
- Description: village and former civil parish in Wiltshire, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Biddestone, Wiltshire” and “Biddlestone”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Nicholas and The White Horse Inn.
Lanhill Barrow
Archaeological site
Photo: Ethan Doyle White, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lanhill Barrow is an archaeological site.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tiddleywink and Slaughterford.
Tiddleywink
Hamlet
Photo: Pam Brophy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tiddleywink is a hamlet consisting of eight cottages on the B4039 road, near the village of Yatton Keynell, about 3 miles northwest of Chippenham, Wiltshire, England.
Slaughterford
Hamlet
Photo: George Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Slaughterford is a small village in the civil parish of Biddestone and Slaughterford, about 5 miles west of Chippenham, in Wiltshire, England. The village has a crossing point of the Bybrook River, and lies in a wooded valley between Castle Combe and Box. Slaughterford is situated 1½ miles west of Biddestone.
Ford
Hamlet
Photo: Graham Horn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ford is a small village in the north-west of Wiltshire, England. The village is on the A420 road, 4 miles west of Chippenham and 11 miles east of Bristol. Ford is situated 1½ miles northwest of Biddestone.
Biddestone
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Biddestone, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.46132° or 51° 27′ 41″ northLongitude
-2.19606° or 2° 11′ 46″ westPopulation
498Elevation
394 feet (120 metres)Open location code
9C3VFR63+GHOpenStreetMap ID
node 248072268OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2655710Wikidata ID
Q2405546
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Turkish—“Biddestone” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Biddestone”
- Bulgarian: “Бидестоне”
- Cebuano: “Biddestone”
- Chinese: “Biddestone”
- Dutch: “Biddestone”
- French: “Biddestone”
- Irish: “Biddestone”
- Ladin: “Biddestone”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Biddestone”
- Polish: “Biddestone”
- Spanish: “Biddestone”
- Swedish: “Biddestone”
- Turkish: “Biddestone”
- “Biddestone”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Biddestone Duck Pond and Biddestone Village Hall.
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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 “Biddestone”. Photo: Phil Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.