Towns & cities · South East England
Chisbury
Chisbury — village in Wiltshire, England, UK.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 3 h–6 h
- Nearest railway station
- Bedwyn · 1.6 km
- Free entry
- Family-friendly
- Dog-friendly
About
Chisbury is a town, city, village or settlement in the United Kingdom. Address: SN8. Wikidata describes it as: "village in Wiltshire, England, UK". Coordinates: 51.3940°, -1.6020°.
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Protected designations
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: River Kennet SSSI
- Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: Cotswolds
- Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: North Wessex Downs
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
Chisbury is a hamlet and prehistoric hill fort in the civil parish of Little Bedwyn in Wiltshire, England. Chisbury is about 4 miles (6 km) west of Hungerford and about 6 miles (10 km) south-east of Marlborough.
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Background
History
At 176 m above sea level, Chisbury hillfort is the highest point in Little Bedwyn parish and encloses an area of about 14 acre. Palaeolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age artefacts have been found in the area, but the hillfort was most probably built in the late Iron Age in the 1st century AD. The hillfort was re-used in the Anglo-Saxon times as a burh, cited as Cyssanbyrig in the Burghal Hidage document which lists the fortifications of Wessex in the later part of the 9th century, although Julian Orbach cautions that this may be a misreading for Tisbury. St. Martin's chapel, on the eastern edge of the hillfort, seems to have been built in the early part of the 13th century. Chisbury Manor…
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- Coordinates
- 51.3940, -1.6020
- District
- Wiltshire
- Parish
- Little Bedwyn
- Postcode
- SN8
- Parliamentary constituency
- East Wiltshire
- Nearest railway station
- Bedwyn — 1.6 km
Sources
- wikidata: Q1241079 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Chisbury (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: St. Martin's Chapel, Chisbury Manor Farm - geograph.org.uk - 99682.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Chisbury?
- Chisbury is in South-East England, United Kingdom (postcode SN8), in the parish of Little Bedwyn.
- Is Chisbury a protected site?
- Yes — Chisbury is part of the River Kennet SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest and the Cotswolds National Landscape (AONB).
- Is Chisbury free to visit?
- Yes, Chisbury is free to enter.
- How do I get to Chisbury?
- The nearest railway station is Bedwyn, about 1.6 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode SN8.