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Bowerchalke Downs

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Bowerchalke Downs is one of 119 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire. It is among the largest in the county. The surrounding countryside is part of Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs National Landscape.

The closest station is Tisbury, about 7.2 km to the north-west. For more of the same, Chickengrove Bottom and Knighton Downs & Wood are close by.

More places to visit near Bowerchalke Downs

Photo of Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs, a National Landscape in England.Highlight

Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs

You’re inside itNational Landscape near Tisbury

Big chalk downland and old hunting country, with some of the darkest night skies in southern England

Photo of The Queen's Head, a pub near Broad Chalke, Wiltshire, south west England.Highlight

The Queen's Head

Pub near Broad Chalke

Chalke Valley village local praised by olive as a best country pub.

3.8 km NE

Photo along the Hardy Way, a 217-mile long-distance path running from Higher Bockhampton to Stinsford, south west England.Highlight

Hardy Way

Long-distance path

Around Thomas Hardy's Wessex from his birthplace cottage to the churchyard at Stinsford, via Corfe Castle and Lulworth Cove.

4.6 km SW · Dorset & Wiltshire

Photo of Fovant Badges, a hill figure near Broad Chalke, Wiltshire, south west England.Highlight

Fovant Badges

Hill figure near Broad Chalke

A row of regimental cap-badges cut into the down by soldiers in the First World War — the biggest and most complete group of hill figures in England.

5.8 km N

Photo along the Wessex Ridgeway, a 136-mile long-distance path running from Marlborough to Lyme Regis, south west England.

Wessex Ridgeway

Long-distance path

The prehistoric chalk line continued — from Marlborough across Salisbury Plain and Cranborne Chase to the sea at Lyme Regis.

8.1 km SW · Wiltshire, Dorset & Devon

Photo of Old Wardour Castle, a ruined castle near Tisbury, Wiltshire, south west England.Highlight

Old Wardour Castle

Castle near Tisbury

Romantic hexagonal ruin by a lake.

8.3 km NW