Ewelme
Ewelme is a village and civil parish in the Chiltern Hills in South Oxfordshire, 2.5 miles northeast of the market town of Wallingford. The 2011 census recorded the parish's population as 1,048.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,040 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England
- Also known as: “Ewelme, Oxfordshire” and “Ewelme, Oxon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wallingford Castle and Benson Library.
Wallingford Castle
Castle
Photo: Pitou250, Public domain.
Wallingford Castle is a medieval castle situated in Wallingford in the English county of Oxfordshire, adjacent to the River Thames. Established in the 11th century as a motte-and-bailey design within an Anglo-Saxon burgh, it grew to become what historian Nicholas Brooks has described as "one of the most powerful royal castles of the 12th and 13th centuries". Wallingford Castle is situated 2½ miles southwest of Ewelme.
Benson Library
Library
Photo: Bill Nicholls, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Benson Library is situated 1½ miles west of Ewelme.
Church of St Helen
Church
Photo: Brendan and Ruth McCartney, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Helen is situated 2 miles west of Ewelme.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Roke and Benson.
Roke
Hamlet
Photo: Colin Bates, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Roke is a hamlet in South Oxfordshire, about 3 miles north of Wallingford. It has a sixteenth-century public house, the Home Sweet Home. It is now included in the neighbouring civil parish of Berrick Salome. Roke is situated 1½ miles northwest of Ewelme.
Benson
Village
Photo: Roger Templeman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Benson is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England. The 2011 Census gave the parish population as 4,754. It lies about a mile and a half north of Wallingford at the foot of the Chiltern Hills, where a chalk stream, Ewelme Brook, joins the River Thames next to Benson Lock. Benson is situated 1½ miles west of Ewelme.
Preston Crowmarsh
Hamlet
Photo: Bill Nicholls, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Preston Crowmarsh is a hamlet in Benson civil parish in South Oxfordshire. It is on the River Thames 1 mile north of Wallingford. The river can be crossed on foot here at Benson Lock. Preston Crowmarsh is situated 2 miles west of Ewelme.
Ewelme
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Ewelme, South Oxfordshire District, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.61948° or 51° 37′ 10″ northLongitude
-1.07118° or 1° 4′ 16″ westPopulation
1,040Elevation
266 feet (81 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB EWMOpen location code
9C3WJW9H+QGOpenStreetMap ID
node 266402313OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Ewelme” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Ewelme”
- Chinese: “Ewelme”
- Dutch: “Ewelme”
- Esperanto: “Ewelme”
- French: “Ewelme”
- German: “Ewelme”
- Irish: “Ewelme”
- Italian: “Ewelme”
- Japanese: “ユーウェルム”
- Ladin: “Ewelme”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ewelme”
- Persian: “ایولم”
- Polish: “Ewelme”
- Russian: “Юэлм”
- Russian: “Юэльм, Оксфордшир”
- Slovenian: “Ewelme, Oxfordshire”
- Swedish: “Ewelme”
- Turkish: “Ewelme”
- “Ewelme”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Ewelme Village Hall and Saint Mary the Virgin.
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