Marleycombe Hill round barrows
Marleycombe Hill round barrows is an archaeological site in Bower Chalke, Wiltshire, England. Marleycombe Hill round barrows is situated nearby to Church of Holy Trinity, Bowerchalke, as well as near the nature reserve Chickengrove Bottom.- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: round barrow in Bowerchalke, Wiltshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Marleycombe Barrows”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Church of Holy Trinity, Bowerchalke and Chickengrove Bottom.
Church of Holy Trinity, Bowerchalke
Church
Photo: Chalkeman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Church of Holy Trinity, Bowerchalke is situated 2,100 feet northwest of Marleycombe Hill round barrows.
Chickengrove Bottom
Nature reserve
Chickengrove Bottom is a 9.8 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest to the south east of the village of Bowerchalke in Wiltshire, notified in 1975.
Martin and Tidpit Downs
Grassland
Martin and Tidpit Downs is a 367.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Fordingbridge in Hampshire. Martin Down is a 341-hectare national nature reserve and an area of 115 hectares is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I. Bokerley Dyke, a prehistoric linear earthwork and scheduled monument, runs through the site. Martin and Tidpit Downs is situated 2 miles southeast of Marleycombe Hill round barrows.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bowerchalke and Fifield Bavant.
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.
Fifield Bavant
Hamlet
Fifield Bavant is a small village in the civil parish of Ebbesborne Wake, in Wiltshire, England, about 6 miles southwest of Wilton, midway between Ebbesbourne Wake and Broad Chalke on the north bank of the River Ebble. Fifield Bavant is situated 1½ miles north of Marleycombe Hill round barrows.
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. Woodyates is situated 2 miles south of Marleycombe Hill round barrows.
Marleycombe Hill round barrows
- Categories: round barrow, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Bower Chalke, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.00195° or 51° 0′ 7″ northLongitude
-1.96913° or 1° 58′ 9″ westOpen location code
9C3W222J+Q8OpenStreetMap ID
node 9681119347OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q17646692
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