Windmill Hill

Windmill Hill is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure in the English county of , part of the , about 1 mile northwest of Avebury.
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  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: archaeological type site in Wiltshire, England
  • Also known as: “Windmill Hill, Avebury”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Church of St Mary Magdalene, Winterbourne Monkton and Avebury Manor and Garden.

Church
Photo: Colin Bates, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Church of St Mary Magdalene is the Anglican church in the village of , north of in , England. It is a 19th-century rebuilding of a structure dating from the 14th century. is situated 4,000 feet northeast of Windmill Hill.

Historic building
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Avebury Manor & Garden is a National Trust property consisting of a Grade I listed early-16th-century manor house and its surrounding garden. It is in , near , England, in the centre of the village next to St James's Church and close to the neolithic henge monument. is situated 1¼ miles southeast of Windmill Hill.

Museum
Photo: Chris Talbot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Avebury is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, around the village of in , in south-west England. One of the best-known prehistoric sites in Britain, it contains the largest megalithic stone circle in the world. is situated 1¼ miles southeast of Windmill Hill.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Winterbourne Monkton and Yatesbury.

Village
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is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 1 mile north of Avebury Stone Circle and 6 miles northwest of . The village lies immediately west of the A4361 road between and .

Village
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is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of , in , England. It is in the northeast of Cherhill parish, 1 mile north of the A4 road approximately 4 miles east of and 9 miles west of .

Village
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is a small village and civil parish in , England, about 6 miles northwest of and 8 miles southwest of . The village is on the west bank of a headstream of the and close to the A4361 road, formerly the A361, which links and with and Swindon.

Windmill Hill

Latitude
51.44152° or 51° 26′ 30″ north
Longitude
-1.87608° or 1° 52′ 34″ west
Open location code
9C3WC4RF+JH
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1125397106
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Wiki­data ID
Q4348373
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Swedish—“Windmill Hill” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Windmill Hill”
  • Cebuano: “Windmill Hill”
  • Chinese: “風車山”
  • Dutch: “Windmill Hill”
  • Finnish: “Windmill Hill”
  • French: “Windmill Hill”
  • Italian: “Windmill Hill”
  • Japanese: “ウィンドミル・ヒル”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Windmill Hill”
  • Spanish: “Colina de Windmill”
  • Spanish: “Windmill hill”
  • Swedish: “Windmill Hill”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Bronze Age Bowl Barrow and Windmill Hill.

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