Wanborough
Wanborough is a large village and civil parish in the borough of Swindon, Wiltshire, England. The village is about 3.5 miles southeast of Swindon town centre.Places of Interest
Highlights include The Coombes and St Andrew’s Church.
The Coombes
Nature reserve
The Coombes is a 15.9 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Hinton Parva in the Borough of Swindon, England, notified in 1989. Within a steep-sided dry valley on the edge of the Marlborough Downs, the chalk grassland is important for its variety of grasses and associated species of butterfly.
St Andrew’s Church
Church
Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Andrew's Church is in the village of Wanborough in north Wiltshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the Diocese of Bristol, one of only three churches in England to have both a western tower and a central spire.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chiseldon and Covingham.
Chiseldon
Village
Photo: Hoos-foos, Public domain.
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. Chiseldon is situated 3 miles southwest of Wanborough.
Covingham
Suburb
Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Covingham is an eastern area of Swindon, England, which was developed in the 1960s as part of Swindon's eastward expansion towards the A419. St Paul's Church was built in 1971 and is the home of a partnership between the Church of England and the Methodist Church. Covingham is situated 3 miles northwest of Wanborough.
Wanborough
- Type: Locality
- Location: Swindon, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.5437° or 51° 32′ 37″ northLongitude
-1.6817° or 1° 40′ 54″ westElevation
541 feet (165 metres)Open location code
9C3WG8V9+F8GeoNames ID
7301449
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