Martin Down Camp
Martin Down Camp is an archaeological site in Martin, New Forest, England. Martin Down Camp is situated nearby to the grassland Martin and Tidpit Downs, as well as near Martin Down National Nature Reserve.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Martin and Tidpit Downs and Bokerley Dyke.
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 1,200 feet south of Martin Down Camp.
Bokerley Dyke
Historic site
Photo: Jim Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bokerley Dyke, Bokerly Dyke, Bokerley Ditch, is a linear earthwork 5.75 kilometres long on Cranborne Chase in Dorset, partially running along the county's border with Hampshire between Woodyates and Martin. Bokerley Dyke is situated 3,600 feet south of Martin Down Camp.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Woodyates and Pentridge.
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.
Pentridge
Hamlet
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pentridge is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge, in the Dorset district, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England, lying in the north-east of the county.
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 2½ miles northwest of Martin Down Camp.
Martin Down Camp
- Type: Archaeological site
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Martin, New Forest, Hampshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.97982° or 50° 58′ 47″ northLongitude
-1.94025° or 1° 56′ 25″ westOpen location code
9C2WX3H5+WVOpenStreetMap ID
way 1429758166OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
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Highlights include Martin Down National Nature Reserve and Chickengrove Bottom.
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