Bratton Castle
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.Photo: Phil Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: bivallate Iron Age hillfort on Bratton Down in Wiltshire, England
- Also known as: “Bratton Camp”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Westbury White Horse and Westbury railway station.
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. Westbury White Horse is situated 890 feet west of Bratton Castle.
Westbury railway station
Railway station
Photo: Kicior99, Public domain.
Westbury railway station serves the market town of Westbury, in Wiltshire, England. The station is managed by Great Western Railway. The station is a major junction, serving the Reading to Taunton line with services to and from Penzance and London Paddington… Westbury railway station is situated 2½ miles west of Bratton Castle.
All Saints’ Church, Westbury
Church
Photo: Bellminsterboy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Church of All Saints is the main Church of England parish church in Westbury, Wiltshire, England. There has been a church on the site since Saxon times, and the current church, largely rebuilt around 1437, is a Grade I listed building. All Saints’ Church, Westbury is situated 1½ miles west of Bratton Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bratton and Westbury.
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.
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. Westbury is situated 2 miles west of Bratton Castle.
Yarnbrook
Village
Photo: Maurice Pullin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Yarnbrook is a large hamlet in Wiltshire, England, between the towns of Westbury and Trowbridge. Most of the settlement lies in the civil parish of North Bradley, the rest in West Ashton. Yarnbrook is situated 3 miles northwest of Bratton Castle.
Bratton Castle
- Categories: contour fort, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Bratton, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.26361° or 51° 15′ 49″ northLongitude
-2.14315° or 2° 8′ 35″ westOpen location code
9C3V7V74+CPOpenStreetMap ID
way 236033342OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q4958135
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Turkish—“Bratton Castle” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “巴頓城堡”
- French: “Bratton Camp”
- Turkish: “Bratton Kalesi”
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Highlights include White Horse and Winkland’s Down.
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