Bowerchalke Airfield
Bowerchalke Airfield is an airstrip in Bower Chalke, Wiltshire, England. Bowerchalke Airfield is situated nearby to the peak Woodminton Down, as well as near the forest Stonedown Wood.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Garston Wood and Wor Barrow.
Garston Wood
Nature reserve
Photo: Nigel Freeman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Garston Wood is a 34-hectare woodland nature reserve in Cranborne Chase, Dorset, England, near the boundary with Wiltshire. It is at grid reference SU004190, around 15 km SE of Shaftesbury and around 3 km north of the village of Sixpenny Handley, owned by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds to protect species living in the region.
Wor Barrow
Archaeological site
Photo: Simon Barnes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wor Barrow is a Neolithic long barrow on Cranborne Chase, about 1 mile east of Sixpenny Handley in Dorset, England. It is a scheduled monument. Its excavation by Augustus Pitt Rivers in 1893–1894 has been described as "an important event in the study of British archaeology". Wor Barrow is situated 2 miles south of Bowerchalke Airfield.
Church of Holy Trinity, Bowerchalke
Church
Photo: Chalkeman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Church of Holy Trinity, Bowerchalke is situated 1½ miles northeast of Bowerchalke Airfield.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Woodyates and Bowerchalke.
Woodyates
Hamlet
Photo: Paul Billington, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Woodyates is a hamlet, sometimes considered a village, in the civil parish of Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge, in the county of Dorset, near its border with Wiltshire, in the west of England.
Bowerchalke
Village
Photo: Chalkeman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bowerchalke is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 9 miles southwest of Salisbury. It is in the south of the county, about 1 mile from the boundary with Dorset and 2 miles from that with Hampshire. Bowerchalke is situated 1½ miles north of Bowerchalke Airfield.
Sixpenny Handley
Village
Photo: Mike Faherty, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sixpenny Handley or Handley is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge, in north east Dorset, England, situated on Cranborne Chase ten miles north east of Blandford Forum. Sixpenny Handley is situated 2 miles south of Bowerchalke Airfield.
Bowerchalke Airfield
- Type: Airstrip
- Category: transportation
- Location: Bower Chalke, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.98382° or 50° 59′ 2″ northLongitude
-1.99106° or 1° 59′ 28″ westOpen location code
9C2WX2M5+GHOpenStreetMap ID
node 6232894208OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=airstrip
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Woodminton Down and Stonedown Wood.
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