What it’s like to work here

Avebury sits at the centre of the National Trust’s North Wiltshire Property Group. Set in the Stonehenge & Avebury World Heritage Site, Avebury is known for its distinctive and internationally important archaeology and chalk grassland. Nearby are the important sites of Windmill Hill – a Neolithic causeway enclosure – Lockeridge Dene and Piggledene, with natural sarsen boulder streams. Further north-east sits The Coombes at Hinton Parva, a distinctive steep-sided chalk valley with a rich botanical diversity.

Heading west, you find Calstone & Cherhill, a further 200ha of species-rich chalk grassland and Iron Age hillfort with rare species such as the Burnt Tip orchid and Wart-biter cricket. Further afield you’ll care for Sutton Land Meadows with thousands of Green Winged orchids. We will shortly incorporate into the portfolio a number of countryside sites around Lacock, providing habitat opportunities including the creation of new woodl...