Broad Town
Broad Town is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 3 miles southeast of Royal Wootton Bassett and 6 miles southwest of Swindon. The parish includes the hamlet of Thornhill and the farming hamlet of Cotmarsh.Places of Interest
Highlights include Bincknoll Castle and Christ Church.
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.
Christ Church
Church
Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Christ Church is the parish church of the village of Broad Town in Wiltshire, England. Constructed between 1844 and 1846 as a late Commissioners' church, it remains an active parish church and is a Grade II listed building.
Wootton Bassett Mud Spring
Spring
Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wootton Bassett Mud Spring is an 8,000-square-metre geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, England, notified in 1997. It can be found following a ten-minute walk from the canal car park opposite Templars Way, along the Wilts & Berks Canal cut and then south across agricultural land.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Royal Wootton Bassett and Wroughton.
Royal Wootton Bassett
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Royal Wootton Bassett is a small town in Wiltshire, England, not far from Swindon. It was founded in 681 as Wodeton, and gained the 'Royal' moniker in 2011 in recognition of the town's role in respectfully welcoming back deceased British troops from overseas.
Wroughton
Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wroughton is a large village and civil parish in northeast Wiltshire, England. It is part of the Borough of Swindon and lies along the A4361 between Swindon and Avebury; the road into Swindon crosses the M4 motorway between junctions 15 and 16.
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 Town
- Type: Locality
- Location: Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.5098° or 51° 30′ 35″ northLongitude
-1.8722° or 1° 52′ 20″ westElevation
338 feet (103 metres)Open location code
9C3WG45H+W4GeoNames ID
7300310
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