Pewsey is a large village and civil parish at the centre of the Vale of Pewsey in Wiltshire, about 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Marlborough and 80 miles (130 km) west of London. It is within reach of the M4 motorway and the A303 and is served by Pewsey railway station on the London to Taunton line.
Population: 3,309
Latitude: 51° 20' 18.78" N
Longitude: -1° 45' 55.62" W
The Andover Canal was a canal built in Hampshire, England. It ran 22 miles (35 km) from Andover to Redbridge through Stockbridge and Romsey. The canal had a fall of 179 feet (55 m) through 24 locks, and for much of its length paralleled the River An…
Alton Barnes and Priors is a civil parish in Wiltshire, England. It includes the twin villages of Alton Barnes and Alton Priors and the nearby hamlet of Honeystreet on the Kennet and Avon Canal.
The Altar Stone is a central megalith at Stonehenge in England, dating to Stonehenge phase 3i, around 2600 BC. It is made of a purplish-green micaceous sandstone and is thought to have originated from outcrops of the Senni formation of the Old Red S…
Stonehenge Avenue is an ancient avenue on Salisbury plain, Wiltshire, UK. It is part of the Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites UNESCO World Heritage Site. Discovered in the 18th century, it measures nearly 3 kilometers, connecting Stonehenge w…
Shrewton is a village and civil parish on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, located around 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Amesbury and 14 miles (23 km) north of Salisbury. It lies on the A360 road between Stonehenge and Tilshead. It is close to the s…
Rattlesnake is a steel wild mouse style roller coaster ride which opened in 1998 Chessington World of Adventures Resort. As of April 2015, the Wild West-themed ride continues to operate.
RAF Thruxton (Also known as Thruxton Airport) is a former World War II airfield in Hampshire, England.
Normanton Down is a Neolithic and Bronze Age barrow cemetery located south of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England.
Newbury F.C. are a football club based in Newbury, Berkshire, England.
Lydiard Park is a 260-acre (1.1 km2) country park at Lydiard Tregoze, which was its formal name, about 4 mi (6.4 km) west of central Swindon, Wiltshire, England, near Junction 16 of the M4 .
The Lansdowne Monument, also known as Cherhill Monument, near Cherhill in Wiltshire is a 38 metre (125 foot) stone obelisk erected by Third Marquis of Lansdowne to the designs of Sir Charles Barry to commemorate his ancestor, Sir William Petty in 18…
Hawtreys Preparatory School was an independent boys' preparatory school, first established in Slough, later moved to Westgate-on-Sea, then to Oswestry, and finally to a country house near Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire. In its early years it was known as S…
Burghclere is a village and civil parish in the Basingstoke and Deane district of Hampshire, England.
Upper Clatford is a village in Hampshire, England. The village lies in the valley of the River Anton, several miles upstream of the point where it joins the River Test, just to the south of Andover. Clatford is an old English term meaning 'the ford …
Port Way or the Portway was a Roman road in Britain. It is sometimes taken to be the entire major route between Roman Londinium (present-day London) and Durnovaria (present-day Dorchester), although it more precisely refers to the section of that ro…
Pilot Hill is a hill in Hampshire, UK, which at 286 m (938 ft) is the highest in the county. The hill is about 10km SW of Newbury on the Hampshire/Berkshire border and is part of the north-facing scarp of the North Hampshire Downs, a chalk ridge wit…
North Wiltshire was a local government district in Wiltshire, England, formed on 1 April 1974, by a merger of the municipal boroughs of Calne, Chippenham, and Malmesbury along with Calne and Chippenham Rural District, Cricklade and Wootton Bassett R…
Milk Hill, located near Alton Priors east of Devizes, is the highest point in the county of Wiltshire, southwest England, at some 295 m / 968 ft above sea level (the adjacent Tan Hill rises to 294 m).