Wroughton

Wroughton is a large village and civil parish in the Borough of Swindon, Wiltshire, England. Located between the M4 motorway and the edge of the North Wessex Downs National Landscape, it lies about 2.5 miles south of Swindon town centre, 5 miles east of Royal Wootton Bassett, and 7.5 miles north of Avebury.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bincknoll Castle and Clout’s Wood.

Bincknoll Castle

Archaeological site

Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bincknoll Castle, or Bincknoll Camp, is the site of a possible Iron Age univallate hillfort in Wiltshire, England. The site lies on the end of a triangular promontory on the escarpment beneath the Ridgeway to the south.

Clout’s Wood

Deciduous forest

Photo: Garrytowns, Public domain.

Clout's Wood is an 11.78 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, notified in 1951. The site is managed as a nature reserve by Wiltshire Wildlife Trust.

Parish Church of St John and St Helen

Church

Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Swindon and Broad Hinton.

Swindon

Photo: Fanvonangelie, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Swindon is a large town in Wiltshire, south west England, that is known for its railway-town heritage and links with the British railway system in which it played a central part during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Broad Hinton

Village

Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Broad Hinton is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 5 miles southwest of Swindon. The parish includes the hamlets of Uffcott and The Weir. Broad Hinton is situated 3 miles southwest of Wroughton.

Wroughton

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

51.5179° or 51° 31′ 4″ north

Longitude

-1.8056° or 1° 48′ 20″ west

Elevation

525 feet (160 metres)

Open location code

9C3WG59V+4Q

GeoNames ID

7291961

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