Overtown

Overtown is a hamlet in Wroughton, Swindon, England. Overtown is situated nearby to the neighborhood Langton Park, as well as near the quarter Alexandra Park.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Clout’s Wood and Burderop Wood.

Clout’s Wood

Deciduous forest

Photo: Garrytowns, Public domain.

Clout's Wood is an 11.78 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, notified in 1951. The site is managed as a nature reserve by Wiltshire Wildlife Trust.

Burderop Wood is a 48.5 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, notified in 1971. The site contains wet ash-maple and acid pedunculate oak-hazel-ash woodland, and its notification as an SSSI due to this, particular richness of the associated ground flora.

Parish Church of St John and St Helen

Church

Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hodson and Draycot Foliat.

Hodson

Hamlet

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.

Draycot Foliat

Hamlet

Photo: David Hawgood, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Draycot Foliat is a hamlet in the civil parish of Chiseldon, in the Swindon district, in the ceremonial county of Wiltshire, England, on the back road between Chiseldon to the north and Ogbourne St. Draycot Foliat is situated 2 miles southeast of Overtown.

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 2 miles east of Overtown.

Overtown

Type: Hamlet
Category: locality
Location: Wroughton, Swindon, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.51352° or 51° 30′ 49″ north

Longitude

-1.77863° or 1° 46′ 43″ west

Elevation

610 feet (186 metres)

Open location code

9C3WG67C+CG

OpenStreetMap ID

node 3487697624

OpenStreetMap feature

place=hamlet

GeoNames ID

13270822

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