Giant’s Grave Plantation

Giant’s Grave Plantation is a deciduous forest in Downton, Wiltshire, England. Access is restricted and requires permission. Giant’s Grave Plantation is situated nearby to the quarter Wick, as well as near the hamlet Charlton-All-Saints.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Trafalgar Park and Clearbury Ring.

Trafalgar Park

Manor estate

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Trafalgar Park is a large Georgian country house about 1.4 miles northeast of the village of Downton in south Wiltshire, England, and 4.5 miles southeast of the city of Salisbury.

Clearbury Ring

Archaeological site

Photo: Jim Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Clearbury Ring is a univallate Iron Age hillfort which is partly in the parish of Downton in the county of Wiltshire in south-west England, approximately 5 kilometres due south of Salisbury city centre.

Clearbury Down

Nature reserve

Clearbury Down is a 13.3 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, England. It is above the village of Charlton-All-Saints in the parish of Downton, south of Salisbury. The site was notified in 1971.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Downton and Redlynch.

Downton

Village

Photo: Graham Horn, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Downton is a village and civil parish on the River Avon in southern Wiltshire, England, about 6 miles southeast of the city of Salisbury. The parish is on the county boundary with Hampshire and is close to the New Forest; it includes the villages of Wick and Charlton-All-Saints, and the small ancient settlement of Witherington.

Redlynch

Village

Photo: David Martin, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Redlynch is a village and civil parish about 6.5 miles southeast of Salisbury in Wiltshire, England. The parish includes the villages of Morgan's Vale and Woodfalls immediately west and southwest of Redlynch; the village of Lover, 1 mile southeast of Redlynch; and the hamlet of Bohemia, south of Lover.

Alderbury

Village

Photo: Trish Steel, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Alderbury is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, in the south of the county around 3 miles southeast of Salisbury. The parish includes the village of Whaddon, which is adjacent to Alderbury, and the hamlet of Shute End.

Giant’s Grave Plantation

Access is restricted and requires permission.
Type: Deciduous forest
Category: forest
Location: Downton, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.0052° or 51° 0′ 19″ north

Longitude

-1.769° or 1° 46′ 8″ west

Open location code

9C3W264J+3C

OpenStreetMap ID

way 408327546

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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Localities in the Area

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