Bury Camp
Bury Camp is the site of an Iron Age multivallate hillfort in north-west Wiltshire, England. It occupies a triangular promontory of Colerne Down, in the north of Colerne parish, at the southern edge of the Cotswold Hills between two spurs of a river valley.- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: site of an Iron Age multivallate hillfort located in Wiltshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Bury Ditches”, “Bury Wood Camp”, and “Bury Wood Camp hillfort and earthwork enclosure 750m north of Raffinwood House”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Church of St James, North Wraxall and Church of St Nicholas.
Church of St James, North Wraxall
Church
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Church of St James, North Wraxall is situated 3,500 feet north of Bury Camp.
Church of St Nicholas
Church
Photo: Robert Powell, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Church of St Nicholas is situated 1¼ miles east of Bury Camp.
Church of St John the Baptist
Church
Photo: Stephen Bashford, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St John the Baptist is situated 2 miles south of Bury Camp.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include The Shoe and North Wraxall.
The Shoe
Hamlet
Photo: Deipnosophista, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Shoe is a hamlet in the parish of North Wraxall, in the north-west of Wiltshire in England. It lies at the junction of the Fosse Way and the A420. The settlement is named after the former inn called The Horse-shoe and is about 7 miles west of Chippenham and the same distance northeast of Bath.
North Wraxall
Village
Photo: Robert Powell, CC BY-SA 3.0.
North Wraxall is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The village is about 6 miles west of Chippenham, just north of the A420 road between Chippenham and Bristol.
Slaughterford
Hamlet
Photo: George Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Slaughterford is a small village in the civil parish of Biddestone and Slaughterford, about 5 miles west of Chippenham, in Wiltshire, England. The village has a crossing point of the Bybrook River, and lies in a wooded valley between Castle Combe and Box.
Bury Camp
- Categories: partial contour fort, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: North Wraxall, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.46468° or 51° 27′ 53″ northLongitude
-2.26284° or 2° 15′ 46″ westOpen location code
9C3VFP7P+VVOpenStreetMap ID
way 264011690OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q5001075
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