Badbury
Badbury is a hamlet of the civil parish of Chiseldon in Wiltshire, England. It lies approximately 3 kilometres to the south of Swindon, close to the M4 motorway.- Type: Village
- Description: village in Wiltshire, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Badbury, Wiltshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Liddington Castle and Church of the Holy Cross.
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.
Coate Water Country Park
Park
Coate Water is a country park situated 5 km to the southeast of central Swindon, England, near junction 15 of the M4. It takes its name from its main feature, a reservoir originally built to provide water for the Wilts & Berks Canal. Coate Water Country Park is situated 1½ miles northwest of Badbury.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chiseldon and Liddington.
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.
Liddington
Village
Photo: Dr Duncan Pepper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Liddington is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Swindon, England. The village is about a mile beyond the south-east edge of Swindon's built-up area, close to junction 15 of the M4 motorway, which is approximately 2 miles away via the B4192.
Hodson
Village
Photo: Martyn Pattison, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hodson is a hamlet in a small valley, in the parish of Chiseldon, Wiltshire, England. The hamlet lies about half a mile northwest of the edge of Chiseldon village; the M4 motorway runs a similar distance to the north, and the centre of the large town of Swindon is some 3 miles to the northwest.
Badbury
- Category: locality
- Location: Chiseldon, Swindon, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.52141° or 51° 31′ 17″ northLongitude
-1.7193° or 1° 43′ 10″ westElevation
512 feet (156 metres)Open location code
9C3WG7CJ+H7OpenStreetMap ID
node 29676757OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Irish—“Badbury” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Badbury, Wiltshire”
- French: “Badbury”
- Irish: “Badbury”
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