Parish Church of St Mary
Parish Church of St Mary is a church in Bishopstone, Swindon, England. Parish Church of St Mary is situated nearby to Bishopstone Church of England Primary School, as well as near Bishopstone Pond.Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Church
- Denomination: Anglican
- Description: church in Bishopstone, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “St Mary” and “St Mary the Virgin Church, Bishopstone, Swindon”
- Address: Swindon, SN6 8PY
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include The Coombes and Alfred’s Castle.
The Coombes
Nature reserve
The Coombes is a 15.9 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Hinton Parva in the Borough of Swindon, England, notified in 1989. Within a steep-sided dry valley on the edge of the Marlborough Downs, the chalk grassland is important for its variety of grasses and associated species of butterfly.
Alfred’s Castle
Archaeological site
Photo: Garyrobertlock, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Alfred's Castle is a small Iron Age hill fort, situated at grid reference SU277822, behind Ashdown Park in the civil parish of Ashbury in Oxfordshire. It lies 2–3 km south of the Ridgeway and is protected as a Scheduled Ancient Monument. Alfred’s Castle is situated 2½ miles southeast of Parish Church of St Mary.
St James
Church
Photo: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St James is a church, which is situated 2 miles north of Parish Church of St Mary.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bishopstone and Idstone.
Bishopstone
Village
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bishopstone is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Swindon, England, about 6 miles east of Swindon, and on the county border with Oxfordshire.
Idstone
Hamlet
Photo: Sionk, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Idstone is a hamlet in the civil parish of Ashbury in the Vale of White Horse. Idstone was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred the Vale of White Horse to Oxfordshire. Idstone is about 6 miles east of Swindon in neighbouring Wiltshire.
Hinton Parva
Village
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hinton Parva, also known as Little Hinton, is a village in the Borough of Swindon in Wiltshire, England. It lies about 2 miles from the eastern edge of the Swindon built-up area, and is separated from the town by farmland and the village of Wanborough.
Parish Church of St Mary
- Categories: building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Bishopstone, Swindon, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.55193° or 51° 33′ 7″ northLongitude
-1.64999° or 1° 39′ westOpen location code
9C3WH922+Q2OpenStreetMap ID
way 258648290OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=churchOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=anglicanWikidata ID
Q17527860
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