The Beeches
The Beeches is a forest in Ogbourne St Andrew, Wiltshire, England. The Beeches is situated nearby to the locality Delling, as well as near the hamlet Temple.Places of Interest
Highlights include The Devil’s Den and Piggledene.
The Devil’s Den
Archaeological site
Photo: JimChampion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Devil's Den or Devil's Den is a dolmen burial chamber on Fyfield Hill near Marlborough, Wiltshire, England. The chamber is part of a Neolithic passage grave on Fyfield Down.
Piggledene
Grassland
Piggledene is a 4.7 hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, notified in 1965. Since 1908 it has been owned by the National Trust.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Marlborough and Avebury.
Marlborough
Photo: Mariegriffiths, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Marlborough is a market town in Wiltshire, between Swindon and Amesbury. Marlborough retains a rustic charm with arcades, alleyways, coaching inns, half-timbered cottages and a church at each end of the high street.
Avebury
Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Avebury is a village in Wiltshire, famous for its neolithic stone circle, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The henge and stone circles are thought to date from about 2500 BC to 2000 BC and are roughly contemporary with the more famous Stonehenge 20 mi to the south.
Fyfield
Village
Photo: andy dolman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fyfield is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire, in the Kennet Valley about 2.5 miles west of Marlborough. The village is on the A4 road which was historically the main route from London to the west of England.
The Beeches
- Type: Forest
- Location: Ogbourne St Andrew, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.4441° or 51° 26′ 39″ northLongitude
-1.7894° or 1° 47′ 22″ westOpen location code
9C3WC6V6+J6OpenStreetMap ID
way 1162660963OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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