Lower Woodford
Lower Woodford is a village in Durnford, Wiltshire, England. Lower Woodford is situated nearby to the hamlet Salterton, as well as near the village Middle Woodford.Places of Interest
Highlights include Old Sarum and Church of All Saints.
Old Sarum
Archaeological site
Photo: MARKEDWARDS, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Old Sarum, in Wiltshire, South West England, is the ruined and deserted site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury. Situated on a hill about two miles north of modern Salisbury near the A345 road, the settlement appears in some of the earliest records in the country. Old Sarum is situated 2 miles southeast of Lower Woodford.
Old Sarum Cathedral
Archaeological site
Photo: Bob Castle, Public domain.
Old Sarum Cathedral was a Catholic cathedral at old Salisbury, England, now known as Old Sarum, between 1092 and 1220. Only its foundations remain, in the north-west quadrant of the circular outer bailey of the site, about 2 miles north of its 13th-century replacement, Salisbury Cathedral. Old Sarum Cathedral is situated 1½ miles southeast of Lower Woodford.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stratford-sub-Castle and Bemerton.
Stratford-sub-Castle
Village
Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stratford-sub-Castle in Wiltshire, England, was anciently a separate village and civil parish, but is now in Salisbury. At approximately 170 ft above sea level, it is dominated to the east by the remains of an Iron Age hillfort, within the boundaries of which a Norman castle was built. Stratford-sub-Castle is situated 2 miles south of Lower Woodford.
Bemerton
Suburb
Photo: Chris Talbot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bemerton, once a rural hamlet and later a civil parish to the west of Salisbury, in Wiltshire, England, is now a suburb of that city. Modern-day Bemerton has areas known as Bemerton Heath, Bemerton Village and Lower Bemerton. Bemerton is situated 3 miles south of Lower Woodford.
Winterbourne Earls
Village
Photo: Peter Facey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Winterbourne Earls is a village in Wiltshire, England. The village is in the Bourne valley on the A338 road, about 3.4 miles northeast of Salisbury. In 1931, the parish had a population of 242. Winterbourne Earls is situated 3 miles east of Lower Woodford.
Lower Woodford
- Type: Village
- Category: locality
- Location: Durnford, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.11674° or 51° 7′ 0″ northLongitude
-1.82194° or 1° 49′ 19″ westOpen location code
9C3W458H+M6OpenStreetMap ID
node 353810839OpenStreetMap feature
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