Axford
Axford is a small village in Ramsbury parish in the English county of Wiltshire. It lies on the north bank of the River Kennet, about 3 miles south-west of Ramsbury village and the same distance east of Marlborough.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Trish Steel, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in Wiltshire, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Axford, Wiltshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Michael’s Church, Axford and Cunetio.
Cunetio
Archaeological site
Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cunetio was a large walled town in a valley of the River Kennet in modern-day Wiltshire, England. Occupied from the 2nd century AD by Romano-British people, the settlement was abandoned in the early 5th century, the emerging post-Roman period.
Church of St John the Baptist
Church
Photo: Rob Stallard, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Church of St John the Baptist is situated 2 miles west of Axford.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mildenhall and Ramsbury.
Mildenhall
Village
Photo: Rob Stallard, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mildenhall is a village and civil parish in the Kennet Valley in Wiltshire, England, immediately east of the market town of Marlborough. The village is about 1.5 miles east of the centre of Marlborough, on the minor road which follows the River Kennet towards Ramsbury. Mildenhall is situated 1½ miles west of Axford.
Ramsbury
Village
Photo: Martin Bodman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ramsbury is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire. The village is in the Kennet Valley near the Berkshire boundary. The nearest towns are Hungerford about 4.5 miles east and Marlborough about 5.5 miles west. Ramsbury is situated 2½ miles east of Axford.
Marlborough
Photo: Mariegriffiths, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Marlborough is a market town in Wiltshire, between Swindon and Amesbury. Marlborough retains a rustic charm with arcades, alleyways, coaching inns, half-timbered cottages and a church at each end of the high street.
Axford
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Ramsbury, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.42937° or 51° 25′ 46″ northLongitude
-1.65932° or 1° 39′ 34″ westElevation
407 feet (124 metres)Open location code
9C3WC8HR+P7OpenStreetMap ID
node 3005363828OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Polish—“Axford” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “阿克斯福德”
- Dutch: “Axford, Wiltshire”
- French: “Axford”
- Irish: “Axford”
- Polish: “Axford (Wiltshire)”
- Polish: “Axford”
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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 “Axford”. Photo: Trish Steel, CC BY-SA 2.0.