Cherhill Down

Cherhill Down is a hill in Calne Without, Wiltshire, England and has an elevation of 860 feet. Cherhill Down is situated nearby to the hamlet Calstone Wellington, as well as near Quemerford Gate.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Calstone and Cherhill Downs and Cherhill White Horse.

Calstone and Cherhill Downs

Grassland

Calstone and Cherhill Downs is a 128.6 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, notified in 1971, including downland at Calstone Wellington and Cherhill.

Cherhill White Horse is a hill figure on Cherhill Down in Wiltshire, England, just outside the village of Cherhill and about 3.5 miles east of Calne. Dating from the late 18th century, it is one of the oldest hill figures of its type in Great Britain.

Lansdowne Monument

Monument

Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Lansdowne Monument, also known as the Cherhill Monument, near Cherhill in Wiltshire, England, is a 38-metre stone obelisk erected in 1845 by Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne to the designs of Sir Charles Barry to commemorate his ancestor, Sir William Petty.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cherhill and Calstone Wellington.

Cherhill

Village

Photo: Ron Strutt, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Cherhill is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The village is about 2+1⁄2 miles east of the town of Calne, on the A4 road towards Marlborough.

Calstone Wellington

Hamlet

Photo: Colin Bates, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Calstone Wellington is a small village and former parish, now part of Cherhill parish, in Wiltshire, England. The village lies about 2.5 miles south-east of Calne and has a 15th-century church. Calstone Wellington is situated 1½ miles west of Cherhill Down.

Yatesbury

Village

Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Yatesbury is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Cherhill, in Wiltshire, England. It is in the northeast of Cherhill parish, 1 mile north of the A4 road approximately 4 miles east of Calne and 9 miles west of Marlborough. Yatesbury is situated 2 miles northeast of Cherhill Down.

Cherhill Down

Type: Hill with an elevation of 860 feet
Category: landform
Location: Calne Without, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.41925° or 51° 25′ 9″ north

Longitude

-1.9249° or 1° 55′ 30″ west

Elevation

860 feet (262 metres)

Open location code

9C3WC39G+P2

GeoNames ID

12610435

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Localities in the Area

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