Clout’s Wood

Clout's Wood is an 11.78 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, notified in 1951. The site is managed as a nature reserve by Wiltshire Wildlife Trust.

Photo: Garrytowns, Public domain.

Type: Deciduous forest
Description: biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire
Also known as: “Clouts Wood”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bincknoll Castle and Parish Church of St John and St Helen.

Bincknoll Castle

Archaeological site

Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bincknoll Castle, or Bincknoll Camp, is the site of a possible Iron Age univallate hillfort in Wiltshire, England. The site lies on the end of a triangular promontory on the escarpment beneath the Ridgeway to the south.

Parish Church of St John and St Helen

Church

Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Barbury Castle

Archaeological site

Photo: Geotrekker72, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Barbury Castle is a scheduled hillfort in Wiltshire, England, about 5.5 miles south of Swindon.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Swindon and Broad Hinton.

Swindon

Photo: Fanvonangelie, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Swindon is a large town in Wiltshire, south west England, that is known for its railway-town heritage and links with the British railway system in which it played a central part during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Broad Hinton

Village

Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Broad Hinton is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 5 miles southwest of Swindon. The parish includes the hamlets of Uffcott and The Weir.

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.

Clout’s Wood

Categories: Site of Special Scientific Interest and forest
Location: Wroughton, Swindon, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.515° or 51° 30′ 54″ north

Longitude

-1.8036° or 1° 48′ 13″ west

Operator

Wiltshire Wildlife Trust

Open location code

9C3WG58W+2H

OpenStreetMap ID

way 37852394

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

Wikidata ID

Q5135828

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