Dirtley Wood

Dirtley Wood is a forest in Upton Scudamore, Wiltshire, England. Dirtley Wood is situated nearby to the locality Warminster Down, as well as near Ranscombe Bottom.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Westbury White Horse and Battlesbury Camp.

Westbury White Horse

Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Westbury White Horse or Bratton White Horse is a hill figure on the escarpment of Salisbury Plain, approximately 1.5 miles east of Westbury in Wiltshire, England.

Battlesbury Camp

Archaeological site

Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Battlesbury Camp is the site of an Iron Age bivallate hill fort on Battlesbury Hill near the town of Warminster in Wiltshire, South West England. Excavations and surveys at the site have uncovered various finds and archaeological evidence.

Bratton Castle

Archaeological site

Photo: Phil Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bratton Castle is a bivallate Iron Age built hill fort on Bratton Down, at the western edge of the Salisbury Plain escarpment. The hill fort comprises two circuits of ditch and bank which together enclose a pentagonal area of 9.3 hectares.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Warminster and Westbury.

Warminster

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Warminster is a delightful market town with a friendly population of around 18,000. The town has many interesting buildings, nearly all of which owe their existence to Warminster's great fame as a successful corn market for several centuries.

Westbury

Town

Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Westbury is a market town and civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. The town lies below the northwestern edge of Salisbury Plain, about 4 miles south of Trowbridge and a similar distance north of Warminster.

Bratton

Village

Photo: My another account, Public domain.

Bratton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire, about 2.5 miles east of Westbury. The village lies under the northern slope of Salisbury Plain, on the B3098 Westbury – Market Lavington road.

Dirtley Wood

Type: Forest
Location: Upton Scudamore, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.2353° or 51° 14′ 7″ north

Longitude

-2.1536° or 2° 9′ 13″ west

Open location code

9C3V6RPW+4H

OpenStreetMap ID

way 170357234

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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