Hackpen Copse

Hackpen Copse is a forest in England, United Kingdom. Hackpen Copse is situated nearby to the hamlet Draycot Foliat, as well as near the quarter Alexandra Park.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Barbury Castle and Burderop Wood.

Barbury Castle

Archaeological site

Photo: Geotrekker72, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Barbury Castle is a scheduled hillfort in Wiltshire, England, about 5.5 miles south of Swindon.

Burderop Wood is a 48.5 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, notified in 1971. The site contains wet ash-maple and acid pedunculate oak-hazel-ash woodland, and its notification as an SSSI due to this, particular richness of the associated ground flora.

Clout’s Wood

Deciduous forest

Photo: Garrytowns, Public domain.

Clout's Wood is an 11.78 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, notified in 1951. The site is managed as a nature reserve by Wiltshire Wildlife Trust.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wroughton and Chiseldon.

Wroughton

Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Wroughton is a large village and civil parish in northeast Wiltshire, England. It is part of the Borough of Swindon and lies along the A4361 between Swindon and Avebury; the road into Swindon crosses the M4 motorway between junctions 15 and 16.

Chiseldon

Village

Photo: Hoos-foos, Public domain.

Chiseldon is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Swindon, Wiltshire, England. The village lies on the edge of the Marlborough Downs, a mile south of junction 15 of the M4 motorway, on the A346 between Swindon and Marlborough.