Basset Down
Basset Down is a hamlet in Broad Hinton, Wiltshire, England. Basset Down is situated nearby to the locality Bincknoll Dip, as well as near the hamlet Lower Salthrop.Places of Interest
Highlights include Salthrop House and Bincknoll Castle.
Salthrop House
Building
Salthrop House is a country house about 2 miles west of the village of Wroughton, Wiltshire, in England. It is Grade II listed on the National Heritage List for England.
Bincknoll Castle
Archaeological site
Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bincknoll Castle, or Bincknoll Camp, is the site of a possible Iron Age univallate hillfort in Wiltshire, England. The site lies on the end of a triangular promontory on the escarpment beneath the Ridgeway to the south.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include South Leaze and Wroughton.
South Leaze
Hamlet
South Leaze is a hamlet in Wroughton parish within the Borough of Swindon, Wiltshire, England. It is south of the nearby village of Toothill and is close to the Mannington Retail Park.
Wroughton
Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wroughton is a large village and civil parish in northeast Wiltshire, England. It is part of the Borough of Swindon and lies along the A4361 between Swindon and Avebury; the road into Swindon crosses the M4 motorway between junctions 15 and 16.
Wichelstowe
Suburb
Wichelstowe is a residential development and urban extension on the southern edge of the town of Swindon in South West England, constructed from late 2006. Wichelstowe is situated 2 miles northeast of Basset Down.
Basset Down
- Type: Hamlet
- Category: locality
- Location: Broad Hinton, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.52133° or 51° 31′ 17″ northLongitude
-1.83561° or 1° 50′ 8″ westOpen location code
9C3WG5C7+GQOpenStreetMap ID
node 11269866599OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Salthrop Wood and Lower Basset Down Farm.
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