Castles and forts in Wiltshire
The Discover Alone map has 59 castles and forts in Wiltshire, England. Below are the 59 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
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Yarnbury CastleArchaeological placeYarnbury Castle is a vast Iron Age hillfort in Wiltshire where three heavy ramparts still guard about one hundred and…
Woods next to Old Wardour CastleCastle, fort or towerWoods next to Old Wardour Castle is a castle, fort or tower in Wiltshire, England. Perhaps the trees hide broken stone…
White Sheet CastleArchaeological placeWhite Sheet Castle is an Iron Age hillfort on White Sheet Hill near Mere, Wiltshire, with one rampart overlooking the…
Water tower, BaydonCastle, fort or towerWater tower, Baydon is a castle, fort or tower in Wiltshire, England. Perhaps it stood as a quiet sentinel over the…
The lake at Old Wardour CastleCastle, fort or towerThe lake at Old Wardour Castle is a castle, fort or tower in Wiltshire, England. Perhaps the water remembers the shape…
Squat Tower at Pinchers Hill, HindonCastle, fort or towerSquat Tower at Pinchers Hill, Hindon is a castle, fort or tower in Wiltshire, England. Perhaps it watched the valley…
Ruined walls within grounds of Old Wardour CastleCastle, fort or towerRuined walls within grounds of Old Wardour Castle is a castle, fort or tower in Wiltshire, England. Perhaps stones…
On the White Horse Trail to Oldbury CastleCastle, fort or towerOn the White Horse Trail to Oldbury Castle is a castle, fort or tower in Wiltshire, England. Perhaps the white horse…
Oliver's CastleArchaeological placeOliver's Castle is a mistaken identity born from Oliver Cromwell and the Battle of Roundway Down in 1643. The error…
Oldbury CastleArchaeological placeOldbury Castle is an Iron Age hillfort on Cherhill Hill in Wiltshire, England, where double banks and ditches still…
New Wardour CastleCastleNew Wardour Castle is a Palladian house completed in 1776 for Henry Arundell, 8th Baron Arundell of Wardour, with a…
Motte castle 20m west of Great Somerford ChurchScheduled monumentMotte castle 20m west of Great Somerford Church stands as a scheduled monument in Wiltshire, marking a place where…,_Mere_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5373317.jpg?width=1280)
Mere CastleScheduled monumentMere Castle stood as a six-towered stone fortress on a chalk ridge in Wiltshire, built by Richard, the Earl of…
Ludgershall CastleCastleLudgershall Castle began as a royal hunting lodge and became a lavish manor where Henry III visited twenty-one times…
Longford Castle Gate LodgeCastle, fort or towerLongford Castle Gate Lodge is a castle, fort or tower in Wiltshire, England. Perhaps it guarded a private road where…
Lewisham CastleScheduled monumentLewisham Castle is a small medieval ringwork south-west of Aldbourne, recorded as a scheduled monument though it may…
Knook Castle hill fortArchaeological placeKnook Castle hill fort stands in Wiltshire, England, a marked archaeological place where ancient hands likely shaped…
King Alfred's Tower at StourheadCastle, fort or towerKing Alfred's Tower at Stourhead is a castle, fort or tower in Wiltshire, England. Perhaps it stood as a watchful…
Kemble Airfield control towerCastle, fort or towerKemble Airfield control tower is a castle, fort or tower in Wiltshire, England. Perhaps it watched planes leave and…
'Jack's Castle'Scheduled monumentJack's Castle stands in Wiltshire as a scheduled monument, though the name suggests a boy's fantasy rather than royal…
Iron Age roundhouse at Barbury Castle Country ParkCastle, fort or towerIron Age roundhouse at Barbury Castle Country Park is a castle, fort or tower in Wiltshire, England. Perhaps people….jpg?width=1280)
Grovely CastleArchaeological placeGrovely Castle is an Iron Age hillfort in Wiltshire where five human skeletons emerged from ramparts still standing ten…
Devizes CastleScheduled monumentDevizes Castle began as a wooden motte-and-bailey around 1080, rose into a stone fortress praised as the most beautiful…
Churchyard at Castle CombeCastle, fort or towerChurchyard at Castle Combe is a castle, fort or tower in Wiltshire, England. Perhaps the churchyard still holds the…
Castle Coombe Racing CircuitCastle, fort or towerCastle Coombe Racing Circuit is a castle, fort or tower in Wiltshire, England. Perhaps horses circled the castle base…
Castle Combe Racing CircuitCastle, fort or towerCastle Combe Racing Circuit sped through Wiltshire from 1954 to 1971, leaving behind programmes and papers that still…
Castle Combe CottageCastle, fort or towerCastle Combe Cottage is a castle, fort or tower in Wiltshire, England. Perhaps it stood as a watchtower above the…
Castle CombeCastle, fort or towerCastle Combe is a narrow Wiltshire valley where the By Brook still rushes toward the Avon, giving birth to mills, cloth…
Bratton CastleArchaeological placeTwo massive ramparts still grip Bratton Down, enclosing twenty-three acres where Bronze Age and Iron Age people likely…
Bowl barrow 750m south-east of Barbury Castle FarmScheduled monumentBowl barrow 750m south-east of Barbury Castle Farm remains a scheduled monument in Wiltshire, though the public may not…
Bincknoll CastleArchaeological placeBincknoll Castle is a fortified enclosure covering 3.5 acres on a north-facing ridge in Wiltshire, where the oldest…
Beacon towerCastle, fort or towerBeacon tower is a castle, fort or tower in Wiltshire, England. Perhaps flames climbed its height during dangerous….jpg?width=1280)
Ashton Keynes CastleArchaeological placeAshton Keynes Castle was a 12th-century ringwork built by the Keynes family, but its military life was short. The de…
A Window or a TowerCastle, fort or towerA Window or a Tower is a castle, fort or tower in Wiltshire, England. Perhaps the window framed a narrow lane where…
Old Sarum CastleCastleOld Sarum Castle is shown as a castle on the public map of Wiltshire. The saved point is the map point or the centre of…- Yarnbury camp (Yarnbury Castle)Scheduled monumentYarnbury camp (Yarnbury Castle) stands in Wiltshire as a scheduled monument, though the name Castle may be a later…
- Woodhouse Castle fortified manor houseScheduled monumentWoodhouse Castle stands in Wiltshire as a scheduled monument, marking a fortified manor house worthy of protection. The…
- Stapleford CastleScheduled monumentStapleford Castle is a Norman motte-and-bailey earthwork in Wiltshire, built after the Conquest of 1066. Its remote…
- Sherrington Castle mound: motte castle east of Sherrington ManorScheduled monumentMarmaduke caught the first red stripe before the rest of the cage became visible. The stripe ran across the sky like a…
- Round barrow N of Yarnbury CastleScheduled monumentSix decades of storms have not erased the shallow dish of earth beside Yarnbury Castle, though men have forgotten the…
- Roman villa in Castle CopseScheduled monumentCastle Copse in Wiltshire holds a scheduled Roman villa, marking the site as worthy of protection long after its…
- Orchard CastleScheduled monumentOrchard Castle in Wiltshire, England appears on the National Heritage List for England as a scheduled monument. The…
- Old Wardour Castle: a tower keep castle, 17th century stables and later garden featuresScheduled monumentOld Wardour Castle in Wiltshire, England is a scheduled monument preserving a tower keep, 17th century stables and…
- Norwood Castle: a motte and bailey castle 100m north of Dean FarmScheduled monumentNorwood Castle is a substantial Norman motte and bailey castle located one hundred metres north of Dean Farm in…
- Motte castle 150m south of Jubilee Wood, Hartham ParkScheduled monumentMotte castle 150m south of Jubilee Wood, Hartham Park stands as a scheduled monument in Wiltshire, England. The…
- Motte and bailey castle 600m north of Castle CombeScheduled monumentMotte and bailey castle 600m north of Castle Combe is a scheduled monument in Wiltshire. It preserves a Norman…
- Milestone SE of Yarnbury CastleScheduled monumentMilestone SE of Yarnbury Castle marks a forgotten road junction in Wiltshire, preserved as a scheduled monument rather…
- Ludgershall Castle, a medieval ringwork and castle, LudgershallScheduled monumentLudgershall Castle stands as a medieval ringwork in Wiltshire, marked as a scheduled monument though its earthworks may…
- Knook Castle hillfort and associated prehistoric and Romano-British landscapeScheduled monumentKnook Castle hillfort and associated prehistoric and Romano-British landscape is a scheduled monument in Wiltshire…
- Grovely Castle and earthworks N of Grovely WoodScheduled monumentGrovely Castle and earthworks N of Grovely Wood remain a scheduled monument in Wiltshire, though no visible castle…
- Four bowl barrows on Long Hill, 220m west of Mere CastleScheduled monumentFour bowl barrows on Long Hill, 220m west of Mere Castle are Bronze Age burial mounds still standing on elevated…
- Castle Rings campScheduled monumentCastle Rings camp is a scheduled monument in Wiltshire, England. The formal recognition protects the remains but does…
- Castle Ditches campScheduled monumentCastle Ditches camp is a univallate Iron Age hillfort near Tisbury in Wiltshire, preserved as a scheduled monument…
- Castle Copse campScheduled monumentCastle Copse camp is a scheduled monument in Wiltshire, England. The name suggests a hidden fortress or dense woodland…
- Bowl barrow 1450m south of Barbury Castle FarmScheduled monumentBowl barrow 1450m south of Barbury Castle Farm is a scheduled monument in Wiltshire, England. The earthwork stands as a…
- Bowl barrow 1.1km ESE of White Sheet CastleScheduled monumentBowl barrow 1.1km ESE of White Sheet Castle stands as a scheduled monument in Wiltshire, a buried chamber where ancient…
- Barbury Castle Farm deserted Medieval villageScheduled monumentBarbury Castle Farm marks a deserted Medieval village in Wiltshire, now protected as a scheduled monument. The land…
- Romano-British settlement at Stratford sub CastleScheduled monumentThe National Heritage List for England records Romano-British settlement at Stratford sub Castle as a scheduled…
- East CastleScheduled monumentEast Castle in Wiltshire, England appears on the National Heritage List for England as a scheduled monument. The…