Tumulus
Tumulus is an archaeological site in Sixpenny Handley, East Dorset District, England. Tumulus is situated nearby to the village Sixpenny Handley, as well as near the nature reserve Garston Wood.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Church of St Mary and Garston Wood.
Church of St Mary
Church
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Mary is situated 1½ miles northwest of Tumulus.
Garston Wood
Nature reserve
Photo: Nigel Freeman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Garston Wood is a 34-hectare woodland nature reserve in Cranborne Chase, Dorset, England, near the boundary with Wiltshire. It is at grid reference SU004190, around 15 km SE of Shaftesbury and around 3 km north of the village of Sixpenny Handley, owned by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds to protect species living in the region. Garston Wood is situated 2½ miles north of Tumulus.
Church of St Andrew
Church
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Andrew is situated 2 miles west of Tumulus.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge.
Sixpenny Handley
Village
Photo: Mike Faherty, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sixpenny Handley or Handley is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge, in north east Dorset, England, situated on Cranborne Chase ten miles north east of Blandford Forum.
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. Pentridge is situated 2½ miles northeast of Tumulus.
Gussage St Michael
Village
Photo: Toby, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gussage Saint Michael is a small village in Dorset, in the south of England. At the 2001 census, the village had a population of 219. Gussage St Michael is tucked off the main A354 as it runs through the Cranborne Chase, ten miles from Blandford Forum and fourteen miles from Salisbury. Gussage St Michael is situated 2½ miles southwest of Tumulus.
Tumulus
- Type: Archaeological site
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Sixpenny Handley, East Dorset District, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.93704° or 50° 56′ 13″ northLongitude
-1.99211° or 1° 59′ 32″ westOpen location code
9C2WW2P5+R5OpenStreetMap ID
way 176800211OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
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