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Wylye Down

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Wylye Down is a National Nature Reserve in Wiltshire, covering 0.34 km². It is one of six National Nature Reserves in the county. It lies inside Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs National Landscape.

Tisbury Station is about 8.6 km away to the south-west. Other National Nature Reserves nearby include Parsonage Down and Prescombe Down.

More places to visit near Wylye Down

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 along the Monarch's Way, a 625-mile long-distance path running from Worcester to Shoreham-by-Sea, England.Highlight

Monarch's Way

Long-distance path

England's longest inland waymarked trail, tracing Charles II's escape route from defeat at Worcester in 1651 to the ship waiting at Shoreham.

1.3 km S · spans 14 counties

Photo of Philipps House and Dinton Park, a house & garden in Wiltshire, south west England.

Philipps House and Dinton Park

House & garden near Dinton

A crisp Neo-Grecian house of 1816 by Jeffry Wyatville in open parkland.

4.5 km S

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.

6.9 km W · Wiltshire, Dorset & Devon

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.

8 km S

Photo of Wilton House, a Grade I registered house & garden near Stratford-sub-Castle, Wiltshire, south west England.Highlight

Wilton House

House & garden near Stratford-sub-Castle

Palladian house with the famous Double Cube Room.

11 km SE