Hook
Hook is a small village in Wiltshire, England between the town of Royal Wootton Bassett and the village of Purton, just north of the M4 motorway. The village lies about 4+1⁄2 miles west of the centre of Swindon, in the civil parish of Lydiard Tregoze.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Colin Bates, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Wiltshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Hook, Wiltshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lydiard Park and Wootton Bassett Museum.
Lydiard Park
Park
Photo: Delta 51, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lydiard Park is a 260-acre country park at Lydiard Tregoze, which was its former name, about 3 miles west of central Swindon, Wiltshire, England, in West Swindon parish, near Junction 16 of the M4 motorway.
Wootton Bassett Museum
Museum
Photo: Colin Bates, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wootton Bassett Museum is a local museum in the market town of Royal Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, England. It is housed in the town hall which is a Grade II listed building.
Ringsbury Camp
Archaeological site
Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ringsbury Camp is an Iron Age hill fort, thought to date from approximately the year 50BC, in the civil parish of Purton in Wiltshire, England. The site is a scheduled monument.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lydiard Millicent and Royal Wootton Bassett.
Lydiard Millicent
Village
Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lydiard Millicent is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 3+1⁄2 miles west of the centre of Swindon. The parish contains the hamlets of Lydiard Green, Lydiard Plain, Greatfield and Green Hill; in the northeast the parish extends to Common Platt, which is now contiguous with the Peatmoor area of Swindon.
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.
Purton
Village
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Purton is a large village and civil parish in north Wiltshire, England, about 4 miles northwest of the centre of Swindon. The parish includes the village of Purton Stoke and the hamlets of Bentham, Hayes Knoll, Purton Common, Restrop, The Fox and Widham. Purton is situated 2 miles northeast of Hook.
Hook
- Category: locality
- Location: Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.56072° or 51° 33′ 39″ northLongitude
-1.88891° or 1° 53′ 20″ westElevation
436 feet (133 metres)Open location code
9C3WH466+7COpenStreetMap ID
node 91332377OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Polish—“Hook” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Hook, Wiltshire”
- Irish: “Hook, Wiltshire”
- Polish: “Hook (Wiltshire)”
- Polish: “Hook”
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Localities in the Area
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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 “Hook”. Photo: Colin Bates, CC BY-SA 2.0.