Piggledene
Piggledene (grid reference SU141689) is a 4.7 hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, notified in 1965.
Articles near the latitude and longitude of Malmesbury
Satellite map of Malmesbury
Malmesbury /ˈmɑːlmzbri/ or /ˈmɑːmzbri/ is a market town and civil parish in the southern Cotswolds in the county of Wiltshire, England. Technology company Dyson is headquartered in Malmesbury which remains a market town and became prominent in the Middle Ages as a centre for learning focused on and around Malmesbury Abbey, the bulk of which forms a rare survival of the dissolution of the monasteries. Once the site of an Iron Age fort, in the Anglo-Saxon period it became the site of a monastery famed for its learning and one of Alfred the Great's fortified burhs for defence against the Vikings. Æthelstan, the first king of England was buried in Malmesbury Abbey when he died in 939.
Population: 5,207
Latitude: 51° 34' 54.30" N
Longitude: -2° 05' 49.49" W
Articles of interest in Malmesbury
1,076 Articles of interest near Malmesbury, United Kingdom
Show all articles in the mapParkfield Colliery
Parkfield Colliery, near Pucklechurch, South Gloucestershire, was sunk in 1851 under the ownership of Handel Cossham. Coal was reached in 1853. The shaft was 840ft deep, but only the upper series of coal veins were worked. These were the Hard, the T…
Out Woods
Out Woods (grid reference ST833763) is a 14.3 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, notified in 1975.
Old Town Railway Cutting, Swindon
Old Town Railway Cutting (grid reference SU153832) is a 1.78 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Swindon, Wiltshire, notified in 1975. It is near the site of the former Swindon Town railway station.
Okus Quarry
Okus Quarry (grid reference SU147836) is a 2,500 square metre geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Old Town, Swindon, Wiltshire, notified in 1951.
Oakiron railway station
Oakiron railway station is the terminus of the 15 in (381 mm) gauge Perrygrove Railway. The line was opened in 1996 and is now open as a heritage railway, passenger trains run round the train via the loop to couple on with the train back down to Per…
North Road Quarry, Bath
North Road Quarry, Bath (grid reference ST767646) is a 0.3 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest close to Sham Castle in the city of Bath, Somerset, notified in 1990.
Mile Elm
Mile Elm is a hamlet in central Wiltshire, England, with a population of around 40 residents.
Middle Forge Junction
Middle Forge Junction is an important junction on the Dean Forest Railway.
Marlborough and Ramsbury Rural District
Marlborough and Ramsbury was a rural district in Wiltshire, England from 1935 to 1974.
Lydney Rural District
Lydney was a rural district in Gloucestershire, England from 1894 to 1974. It covered an area on the Welsh border by the Severn estuary.
Long Ashton Rural District
Long Ashton was a rural district in Somerset, England, from 1894 to 1974.
Limebreach Wood
Limebreach Wood (grid reference ST466726) is a woodland on the south side of the Tickenham Ridge, between Clevedon and Bristol.
Kingswood Borough
Kingswood was, from 1974 to 1996, a non-metropolitan district of the County of Avon, England.
Kingsdown, Box
Kingsdown is a hamlet in the civil parish of Box, Wiltshire.
Ironmould Lane, Bristol
Ironmould Lane is a cricket ground in Bristol. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1894, when Brislington played Peasedown St John. In 1969 the ground held its first List-A match when Somerset played Surrey in the Player's County League.
Hungerford Lock
Hungerford Lock is a lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal, at Hungerford, Berkshire, England.
Huckford Viaduct
The Huckford Viaduct spans the River Frome just north of Winterbourne Down in South Gloucestershire, England. It was built in 1902 as part of the Wootton Bassett to Patchway railway line.