The Common

The Common is a recreation area in Broughton Gifford, Wiltshire, England. The Common is situated nearby to Broughton Gifford Strict Baptist Chapel, as well as near Norrington Common.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Great Chalfield Manor and Church of St Mary.

Great Chalfield Manor

Photo: Trish Steel, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Great Chalfield Manor is an English country house at Great Chalfield, about 2.5 miles northeast of the town of Bradford on Avon in the west of the county of Wiltshire. Great Chalfield Manor is situated 1 mile southwest of The Common.

Church of St Mary

Church

Photo: Trish Steel, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Church of St Mary is situated 1 mile south of The Common.

Church of St Michael and All Angels

Church

Photo: Phil Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Church of St Michael and All Angels is situated 1¼ miles northwest of The Common.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Great Chalfield and Shaw.

Great Chalfield

Hamlet

Photo: Michael Garlick, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Great Chalfield, also sometimes called by its Latin name of Chalfield Magna, formerly East Chalfield and anciently Much Chaldefield, is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Atworth, in west Wiltshire, England.

Shaw

Village

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Shaw is a village in the civil parish of Melksham Without, Wiltshire, England. It is about 1.7 miles northwest of Melksham on the A365 Melksham to Box road, where the B3353 diverges to Corsham.

Whitley

Village

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Whitley is a village in the civil parish of Melksham Without, Wiltshire, England, which had a population of 1,914 at the 2011 census. The village lies about 2 miles northwest of Melksham on the B3353 Shaw to Corsham road.

The Common

Type: Common land
Category: recreation area
Location: Broughton Gifford, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.37872° or 51° 22′ 43″ north

Longitude

-2.18413° or 2° 11′ 3″ west

Open location code

9C3V9RH8+F8

OpenStreetMap ID

way 178129253

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=common

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Highlights include Broughton Gifford Strict Baptist Chapel and Norrington Common.

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