West Challow
West Challow is a village and civil parish about 2 miles west of the market town of Wantage in the Vale of White Horse, England. The village is on Childrey Brook, which is a tributary of the River Ock.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 233 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England
- Also known as: “Challow”, “West Challow, Oxfordshire”, and “West Challow, Oxon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Letcombe Valley and Church of the Holy Rood.
Letcombe Valley
Nature reserve
Letcombe Valley is a 7.5-hectare nature reserve south of Letcombe Regis in Oxfordshire. It is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust, with the assistance of the Friends of Letcombe Valley. Letcombe Valley is situated 1½ miles southeast of West Challow.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Childrey and East Challow.
Childrey
Village
Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Childrey is a village and civil parish about 2+1⁄2 miles west of Wantage in the Vale of White Horse. The parish was part of the Wantage Rural District in Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred the Vale of White Horse to Oxfordshire.
East Challow
Village
Photo: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 4.0.
East Challow is a village and civil parish about 1 mile west of Wantage in the Vale of White Horse, England. Historically it was part of the ecclesiastical parish of Letcombe Regis, but since 1852 East and West Challow have formed their own single ecclesiastical parish.
Sparsholt
Village
Photo: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sparsholt is a village and civil parish about 3 miles west of Wantage in the Vale of White Horse district of Oxfordshire. The parish includes the hamlet of Westcot about 1⁄2 mile west of the village.
West Challow
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: West Challow, Vale of White Horse District, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.59364° or 51° 35′ 37″ northLongitude
-1.47172° or 1° 28′ 18″ westPopulation
233Elevation
282 feet (86 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB WCWOpen location code
9C3WHGVH+F8OpenStreetMap ID
node 239953235OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“West Challow” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “West Challow”
- Chinese: “West Challow”
- Czech: “West Challow”
- Dutch: “West Challow”
- French: “West Challow”
- German: “West Challow”
- Irish: “West Challow”
- Ladin: “West Challow”
- Min Nan Chinese: “West Challow”
- Polish: “West Challow”
- Slovak: “West Challow”
- Swedish: “West Challow”
- Turkish: “West Challow”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include St. Lawrence’s Church and West Challow Village Hall.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “West Challow”. Photo: Michael FORD, CC BY-SA 2.0.