Ringsbury Camp
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.Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: hillfort in Wiltshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Ringsbury Camp hillfort”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Church of All Saints, Lydiard Millicent and Bradon Forest School.
Church of All Saints, Lydiard Millicent
Church
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of All Saints, Lydiard Millicent is situated 1¼ miles east of Ringsbury Camp.
Bradon Forest School
School
Bradon Forest School is a mixed secondary school in Purton in Wiltshire, England. In September 2015 the school converted to academy status and is now part of the Athelstan Academy Trust, which also includes Malmesbury School in Malmesbury, The Dean Academy in Lydney, Sir William Romney's School, Tetbury and Chipping Sodbury School. Bradon Forest School is situated 1 mile east of Ringsbury Camp.
The Angel Public House
Pub
Photo: Wayland Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Angel Public House is situated 1¼ miles northeast of Ringsbury Camp.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Purton and Hook.
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.
Hook
Village
Photo: Colin Bates, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hook is a small village in Wiltshire, England between the town of Royal Wootton Bassett and the village of Purton, just north of the M4 motorway. The village lies about 4+1⁄2 miles west of the centre of Swindon, in the civil parish of Lydiard Tregoze.
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.
Ringsbury Camp
- Categories: contour fort, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Purton, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.57964° or 51° 34′ 47″ northLongitude
-1.89314° or 1° 53′ 35″ westOpen location code
9C3WH4H4+VPOpenStreetMap ID
way 39798886OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q7334977
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