Great Cheverell Hill

The oldest and best known of the Wiltshire horses, cut into the down below Bratton's Iron Age ramparts and remodelled in 1778; it shows for miles across the vale.

7.8 km W

Rolling chalk downland above the Vale of the White Horse, threaded by one of Britain's oldest roads

9.3 km NE

The broad-beam crossing of southern England — river, canal and river again from Bristol's Avon to the Thames at Reading, over the chalk by the Caen Hill flight.

9.3 km N · spans 5 counties

A flight of 29 locks climbing 237 feet in two miles on the Kennet and Avon Canal at Devizes, a triumph of Georgian engineering.

9.4 km N

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

9.5 km S

Georgian country-house hotel dining in parkland by the River Wylye near Warminster.

11.2 km SW