Windmill Hill, Avebury
Windmill Hill is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure in the English county of Wiltshire, part of the Avebury World Heritage Site, about 1 mile (2 km) northwest of Avebury.

Windmill Hill is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure in the English county of Wiltshire, part of the Avebury World Heritage Site, about 1 mile (2 km) northwest of Avebury. Enclosing an area of 21 acres (8.5 ha), it is the largest known causewayed enclosure in Britain. The site was first occupied around 3800 BC, although the only evidence is a series of pits apparently dug by an agrarian society using Hembury pottery.
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Worth seeing in and around Windmill Hill, Avebury
6 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.
- 01Avebury
Avebury is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, in south-west England. One of the best-known prehistoric sites in Britain, it contains the largest megalithic stone circle in the world.
2.1 km · Neolithic henge monument in Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Windmill Hill
Windmill Hill is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure in the English county of Wiltshire, part of the Avebury World Heritage Site, about 1 mile northwest of Avebury. Enclosing an area of 21 acres, it is the largest known causewayed enclosure in Britain.
0 m · archaeological type site in Wiltshire, England · Wikipedia - 03Avebury Manor and Garden
Avebury Manor & Garden is a National Trust property consisting of a Grade I listed early-16th-century manor house and its surrounding garden. It is in Avebury, near Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, in the centre of the village next to St James's Church and close to the Avebury neolithic henge monument.
1.8 km · manor house · Wikipedia - 04Alexander Keiller Museum
Avebury is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, in south-west England. One of the best-known prehistoric sites in Britain, it contains the largest megalithic stone circle in the world.
1.9 km · museum in South West England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05Church of St Mary Magdalene, Winterbourne Monkton
The Church of St Mary Magdalene is the Anglican church in the village of Winterbourne Monkton, north of Avebury in Wiltshire, England. It is a 19th-century rebuilding of a structure dating from the 14th century.
1.2 km · grade II listed church in Winterbourne Monkton, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06St Nicholas's Church, Berwick Bassett
St Nicholas's Church in Berwick Bassett, Wiltshire, England dates from the early 13th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade II* listed building, and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
2.4 km · church in Berwick Bassett, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Windmill Hill, Avebury
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 59 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 98 km · Cardiff (CWL), 102 km
- Bristol → Windmill Hill, Avebury50 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £6–8
- London → Windmill Hill, Avebury121 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · £12–16
- Cardiff → Windmill Hill, Avebury90 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £11–14
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- Get inEvery Easter, hundreds of canoeists set off from Devizes Wharf heading for the Thames at Westminster in the annual Devizes to Westminster International Canoe Race.
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Windmill Hill, Avebury is 50 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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