Silbury Hill
Silbury Hill is a prehistoric artificial chalk mound near Avebury in the English county of Wiltshire. It is part of the Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites UNESCO World Heritage Site.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Avebury and West Kennet Long Barrow.
Avebury
Nature reserve
Avebury is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, in south-west England. One of the best-known prehistoric sites in Britain, it contains the largest megalithic stone circle in the world.
West Kennet Long Barrow
Archaeological site
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The West Kennet Long Barrow, also known as South Long Barrow, is a chambered long barrow near the village of Avebury in the south-western English county of Wiltshire. West Kennet Long Barrow is situated 2,900 feet southeast of Silbury Hill.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Winterbourne Monkton and Yatesbury.
Winterbourne Monkton
Village
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Winterbourne Monkton is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 1 mile north of Avebury Stone Circle and 6 miles northwest of Marlborough. The village lies immediately west of the A4361 road between Swindon and Devizes. Winterbourne Monkton is situated 2 miles north of Silbury Hill.
Yatesbury
Village
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Yatesbury is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Cherhill, in Wiltshire, England. It is in the northeast of Cherhill parish, 1 mile north of the A4 road approximately 4 miles east of Calne and 9 miles west of Marlborough. Yatesbury is situated 3 miles northwest of Silbury Hill.
Lockeridge
Village
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Lockeridge is a village in Wiltshire, England. It lies at the edge of the West Woods in the Kennet Valley, 2.9 miles west of Marlborough, 3.1 miles east of Avebury and 10.5 miles south of Swindon. Lockeridge is situated 3 miles east of Silbury Hill.
Silbury Hill
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: monumental Neolithic mound west of the River Kennet and south of Avebury village, Wiltshire, England, UK
- Categories: mound, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Avebury, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Tamil—“Silbury Hill” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Silburyko muinoa”
- Breton: “Silbury Hill”
- Catalan: “Silbury Hill”
- Cebuano: “Silbury Hill”
- Chinese: “西爾布利山”
- Chinese: “錫爾伯里丘”
- Czech: “Silbury Hill”
- Czech: “Silsbury Hill”
- Dutch: “Silbury Hill”
- Esperanto: “Silbury Hill”
- Finnish: “Silbury Hill”
- French: “Silbury Hill”
- German: “Silbury Hill”
- Hebrew: “גבעת סילברי”
- Hebrew: “גבעת סִילְבְּרִי”
- Hungarian: “Silbury Hill”
- Irish: “Silbury Hill”
- Italian: “Silbury Hill”
- Japanese: “シルバリー・ヒル”
- Japanese: “シルベリー・ヒル”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Silbury Hill”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Silbury Hill”
- Norwegian: “Silbury Hill”
- Polish: “Silbury Hill”
- Russian: “Силбери-Хилл”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Silbury Hill”
- Slovenian: “Silbury Hill”
- Spanish: “Colina de Silbury”
- Swedish: “Silbury Hill”
- Tamil: “சில்பரி மலை”
Localities in the Area
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