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Salisbury Plain

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Salisbury Plain is one of 119 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire. None of the SSSIs in the county is larger. The closest station is Warminster, about 1.8 km to the west. Other SSSIs nearby include Bratton Downs and Upton Cow Down.

More places to visit near Salisbury Plain

Photo of the North Wessex Downs, a National Landscape in England.Highlight

North Wessex Downs

National Landscape near Hungerford

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

0.1 km NE

Photo of Westbury White Horse, a hill figure near Steeple Ashton, Wiltshire, south west England.Highlight

Westbury White Horse

Hill figure near Steeple Ashton

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.

0.8 km W

Photo of Bishopstrow Hotel & Spa, a restaurant in Wiltshire, south west England.Highlight

Bishopstrow Hotel & Spa

Restaurant · With rooms near Bishopstrow

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

1.2 km W

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

Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs

National Landscape near Tisbury

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

2.1 km SW

Photo of Stonehenge, a stone circle near Stratford-sub-Castle, Wiltshire, south west England.Iconic

Stonehenge

Stone circle · Henge near Stratford-sub-Castle

The most famous prehistoric monument in the world.

2.3 km SE

Photo of Pewsey White Horse, a hill figure near Wootton Rivers in the North Wessex Downs, Wiltshire, south west England.Highlight

Pewsey White Horse

Hill figure near Wootton Rivers

A trim little horse cut on Pewsey Hill in 1937 for George VI's coronation, on the site of an older lost one.

2.9 km NE