Bishopstone Lynchets
Bishopstone Lynchets is an archaeological site in Bishopstone, Swindon, England. Bishopstone Lynchets is situated nearby to the peak Charlbury Hill, as well as near Bishopstone Pond.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Parish Church of St Mary and The Coombes.
Parish Church of St Mary
Church
Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Parish Church of St Mary is situated 3,500 feet north of Bishopstone Lynchets.
The Coombes
Nature reserve
The Coombes is a 15.9 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Hinton Parva in the Borough of Swindon, England, notified in 1989. Within a steep-sided dry valley on the edge of the Marlborough Downs, the chalk grassland is important for its variety of grasses and associated species of butterfly.
Alfred’s Castle
Archaeological site
Photo: Garyrobertlock, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Alfred's Castle is a small Iron Age hill fort, situated at grid reference SU277822, behind Ashdown Park in the civil parish of Ashbury in Oxfordshire. It lies 2–3 km south of the Ridgeway and is protected as a Scheduled Ancient Monument. Alfred’s Castle is situated 2 miles east of Bishopstone Lynchets.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bishopstone and Hinton Parva.
Bishopstone
Village
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bishopstone is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Swindon, England, about 6 miles east of Swindon, and on the county border with Oxfordshire.
Hinton Parva
Village
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hinton Parva, also known as Little Hinton, is a village in the Borough of Swindon in Wiltshire, England. It lies about 2 miles from the eastern edge of the Swindon built-up area, and is separated from the town by farmland and the village of Wanborough.
Idstone
Hamlet
Photo: Sionk, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Idstone is a hamlet in the civil parish of Ashbury in the Vale of White Horse. Idstone was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred the Vale of White Horse to Oxfordshire. Idstone is about 6 miles east of Swindon in neighbouring Wiltshire.
Bishopstone Lynchets
- Type: Archaeological site
- Also known as: “Bishopstone Strip Lynchets”
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Bishopstone, Swindon, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.54245° or 51° 32′ 33″ northLongitude
-1.65069° or 1° 39′ 3″ westOpen location code
9C3WG8RX+XPOpenStreetMap ID
way 1231160662OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
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