Silbury Hill

Silbury Hill is a prehistoric artificial chalk mound near in the English county of Wiltshire. It is part of the Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Wikipedia
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  • Type: Nature reserve
  • Description: monumental Neolithic mound west of the River Kennet and south of Avebury village, Wiltshire, England, UK
  • Also known as: “גבעת סִילְבְּרִי”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Avebury and West Kennet Long Barrow.

Nature reserve
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is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, around the village of in , in south-west England. One of the best-known prehistoric sites in Britain, it contains the largest megalithic stone circle in the world.

Archaeological site
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The , also known as South Long Barrow, is a chambered long barrow near the village of in the south-western English county of Wiltshire.

Archaeological site
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or West is a prehistoric site in the English county of . It was originally an avenue of two parallel lines of stones 25m wide and 2.5km in length, which ran between the Neolithic sites of and The Sanctuary.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include West Overton and Winterbourne Monkton.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in the English county of , about 3.5 miles west of . The runs immediately north of the village, separating it from the A4 road.

Village
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is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 1 mile north of Avebury Stone Circle and 6 miles northwest of . The village lies immediately west of the A4361 road between and .

Village
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is a small village and civil parish in , England, about 6 miles northwest of and 8 miles southwest of . The village is on the west bank of a headstream of the and close to the A4361 road, formerly the A361, which links and with and Swindon.

Silbury Hill

Latitude
51.4157° or 51° 24′ 57″ north
Longitude
-1.8574° or 1° 51′ 27″ west
Elevation
548 feet (167 metres)
Operator
English Heritage
Open location code
9C3WC48V+72
Open­Street­Map ID
way 377466789
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­nature_reserve
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­grassland
Wiki­data ID
Q225896
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Turkish—“Silbury Hill” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Silburyko muinoa”
  • Breton: “Silbury Hill”
  • Catalan: “Silbury Hill”
  • Cebuano: “Silbury Hill”
  • Chinese: “西爾布利山”
  • Chinese: “錫爾伯里丘”
  • Czech: “Silbury Hill”
  • Czech: “Silsbury Hill”
  • Dutch: “Silbury Hill”
  • Esperanto: “Silbury Hill”
  • Finnish: “Silbury Hill”
  • French: “Silbury Hill”
  • German: “Silbury Hill”
  • Hebrew: “גבעת סילברי”
  • Hungarian: “Silbury Hill”
  • Irish: “Silbury Hill”
  • Italian: “Silbury Hill”
  • Japanese: “シルバリー・ヒル”
  • Japanese: “シルベリー・ヒル”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Silbury Hill”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Silbury Hill”
  • Norwegian: “Silbury Hill”
  • Polish: “Silbury Hill”
  • Russian: “Силбери-Хилл”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Silbury Hill”
  • Slovenian: “Silbury Hill”
  • Spanish: “Colina de Silbury”
  • Swedish: “Silbury Hill”
  • Tamil: “சில்பரி மலை”
  • Turkish: “Silbury Hill”

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