Battlelake Plantation

Battlelake Plantation is a forest in Braydon, Wiltshire, England. Battlelake Plantation is situated nearby to the locality Abbot’s Bridge, as well as near the hamlet Pavenhill.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ringsbury Camp and RAF Blakehill Farm.

Ringsbury Camp

Archaeological site

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

Ringsbury Camp is an Iron Age hill fort, thought to date from approximately the year 50BC, in the civil parish of Purton in Wiltshire, England. The site is a scheduled monument.

RAF Blakehill Farm

Nature reserve

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Royal Air Force Blakehill Farm or more simply RAF Blakehill Farm is a former Royal Air Force station southwest of Cricklade in Wiltshire, England, operational between 1944 and 1952.

St Mary's Church in the village of Purton in north Wiltshire, England, is an active Church of England parish church in the Diocese of Bristol. A large building begun in the 13th century and one of only three churches in England to have both a western tower and a central spire, it has been designated as a Grade I listed building by English Heritage.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Royal Wootton Bassett and Purton.

Royal Wootton Bassett

Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Royal Wootton Bassett is a small town in Wiltshire, England, not far from Swindon. It was founded in 681 as Wodeton, and gained the 'Royal' moniker in 2011 in recognition of the town's role in respectfully welcoming back deceased British troops from overseas.

Purton

Village

Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Purton is a large village and civil parish in north Wiltshire, England, about 4 miles northwest of the centre of Swindon. The parish includes the village of Purton Stoke and the hamlets of Bentham, Hayes Knoll, Purton Common, Restrop, The Fox and Widham.

Lydiard Millicent

Village

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

Lydiard Millicent is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 3+1⁄2 miles west of the centre of Swindon. The parish contains the hamlets of Lydiard Green, Lydiard Plain, Greatfield and Green Hill; in the northeast the parish extends to Common Platt, which is now contiguous with the Peatmoor area of Swindon.