Liddington Castle
Liddington Castle, locally called Liddington Camp, is a late Bronze Age and early Iron Age univallate hillfort in Liddington parish in the English county of Wiltshire, and a scheduled monument.Photo: Philipjelley, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Philipjelley, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Opening hours: 24/7
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: late Bronze Age and early Iron Age hill fort in Wiltshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Badbury Camp” and “Liddington Camp”
- Wheelchair access: no
Photo: MikPeach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Church of the Holy Cross and St Andrew’s Church.
Church of the Holy Cross
Church
Photo: Lorddunvegan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Church of the Holy Cross is situated 1¼ miles west of Liddington Castle.
St Andrew’s Church
Church
Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Andrew's Church is in the village of Wanborough in north Wiltshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the Diocese of Bristol, one of only three churches in England to have both a western tower and a central spire. St Andrew’s Church is situated 2 miles north of Liddington 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. The Coombes is situated 2 miles northeast of Liddington Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Badbury and Liddington.
Badbury
Village
Badbury is a hamlet of the civil parish of Chiseldon in Wiltshire, England. It lies approximately 3 kilometres to the south of Swindon, close to the M4 motorway.
Liddington
Village
Photo: Dr Duncan Pepper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Liddington is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Swindon, England. The village is about a mile beyond the south-east edge of Swindon's built-up area, close to junction 15 of the M4 motorway, which is approximately 2 miles away via the B4192.
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.
Liddington Castle
- Categories: contour fort, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Liddington, Swindon, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.51587° or 51° 30′ 57″ northLongitude
-1.70036° or 1° 42′ 1″ westOpen location code
9C3WG78X+8VOpenStreetMap ID
way 351669886OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=noWikidata ID
Q1823620
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Turkish—“Liddington Castle” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Liddington Castle”
- French: “Liddington Castle”
- German: “Liddington Castle”
- Turkish: “Liddington Kalesi”
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Highlights include Liddington Hill and Liddington Clump.
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