The Wilderness
The Wilderness is a forest in Wroughton, Swindon, England. The Wilderness is situated nearby to the neighborhood Burderop Park, as well as near the hamlet Hodson.Places of Interest
Highlights include Coate Water Country Park and Burderop Wood.
Coate Water Country Park
Park
Coate Water is a country park situated 5 km to the southeast of central Swindon, England, near junction 15 of the M4. It takes its name from its main feature, a reservoir originally built to provide water for the Wilts & Berks Canal.
Burderop Wood
Forest
Burderop Wood is a 48.5 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, notified in 1971. The site contains wet ash-maple and acid pedunculate oak-hazel-ash woodland, and its notification as an SSSI due to this, particular richness of the associated ground flora.
Day House Lane Stone Circle
Archaeological site
Day House Lane Stone Circle, also known as Coate Stone Circle, is a stone circle near the hamlet of Coate, now on the southeastern edge of Swindon, in the English county of Wiltshire.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Swindon and Chiseldon.
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.
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
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.
The Wilderness
- Type: Forest
- Location: Wroughton, Swindon, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.5199° or 51° 31′ 12″ northLongitude
-1.7596° or 1° 45′ 35″ westOpen location code
9C3WG69R+W5OpenStreetMap ID
way 391796437OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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