Burghclere

Worth seeing in and around Burghclere

9 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Highclere Castle

   Highclere Castle is a Grade I listed country house built in 1679 and largely renovated during the 1840s, with a park designed by Capability Brown in the 18th century. The 5,000-acre estate is in Highclere, Hampshire, England, about five miles south of Newbury, Berkshire, and 9+1⁄2 miles north of Andover, Hampshire.

   3.3 km · country house in Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Watership Down

   Watership Down is a down or hill in the civil parish of Ecchinswell, Sydmonton and Bishops Green in the English county of Hampshire. It forms part of the Hampshire Downs.

   2.1 km · hill in Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Sandham Memorial Chapel

   Sandham Memorial Chapel is in the village of Burghclere, Hampshire, England. It is a Grade I listed, 1920s decorated chapel, designed by Lionel Pearson.

   3.4 km · Grade I listed church in Burghclere, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Beacon Hill

   There are several hills in Hampshire called Beacon Hill; another is near Warnford. Beacon Hill is near the village of Burghclere and Watership Down, in north Hampshire.

   1.9 km · hill in Burghclere, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Ladle Hill

   Ladle Hill is a 10.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Kingsclere in Hampshire. It is also a Scheduled Monument.

   900 m · hill in Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Church of St Lawrence

   St Lawrence's Church is a Grade II listed church in Ecchinswell, Hampshire, England, in the rural deanery of Whitchurch, within the Diocese of Winchester, designed by Bodley & Garner, 1885–87, at a time when Ninian Comper was their articled pupil, 1883-1887. It has 200 sittings.

   3.2 km · church in Ecchinswell, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Sydmonton Court

   Sydmonton Court is an English country house in Hampshire. Built and developed over the centuries, it is surrounded by a 5,000 acre estate, in the parish of Ecchinswell, Sydmonton and Bishops Green, near Watership Down.

   800 m · building in Ecchinswell, Sydmonton and Bishops Green, Basingstoke and Deane, England, UK · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Highclere Park

   Highclere Park is a 69.6-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Highclere in Hampshire. It is the park of Highclere Castle and is Grade 1 on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England.

   3.4 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Duncroft Farm Pit

   Duncroft Farm Pit is a 0.1-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Kingsclere in Hampshire. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

   1.3 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia

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Getting to Burghclere

Airports

London Heathrow (LHR), 62 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 81 km · London Luton (LTN), 90 km

Stations

Highclere railway station, 3.2 km · Burghclere railway station, 700 m

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  85 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · £9–12
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• Luton, Luton → Burghclere

  86 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £11–15
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  89 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £10–13
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