Bishopstone
Bishopstone is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Swindon, England, about 6 miles east of Swindon, and on the county border with Oxfordshire.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 424 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Swindon, Wiltshire, UK
- Also known as: “Bishopstone, Swindon” and “Bishopstone, Wiltshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Parish Church of St Mary and The Coombes.
The Coombes
Nature reserve
The Coombes is a 15.9 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Hinton Parva in the Borough of Swindon, England, notified in 1989. Within a steep-sided dry valley on the edge of the Marlborough Downs, the chalk grassland is important for its variety of grasses and associated species of butterfly.
Alfred’s Castle
Archaeological site
Photo: Garyrobertlock, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Alfred's Castle is a small Iron Age hill fort, situated at grid reference SU277822, behind Ashdown Park in the civil parish of Ashbury in Oxfordshire. It lies 2–3 km south of the Ridgeway and is protected as a Scheduled Ancient Monument. Alfred’s Castle is situated 2 miles southeast of Bishopstone.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Idstone and Hinton Parva.
Idstone
Hamlet
Photo: Sionk, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Idstone is a hamlet in the civil parish of Ashbury in the Vale of White Horse. Idstone was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred the Vale of White Horse to Oxfordshire. Idstone is about 6 miles east of Swindon in neighbouring Wiltshire.
Hinton Parva
Village
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hinton Parva, also known as Little Hinton, is a village in the Borough of Swindon in Wiltshire, England. It lies about 2 miles from the eastern edge of the Swindon built-up area, and is separated from the town by farmland and the village of Wanborough.
Ashbury
Village
Photo: David Kemp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ashbury is a village and large civil parish at the upper end of the Vale of White Horse. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire.
Bishopstone
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Bishopstone, Swindon, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.55211° or 51° 33′ 8″ northLongitude
-1.6475° or 1° 38′ 51″ westPopulation
424Elevation
423 feet (129 metres)Open location code
9C3WH923+R2OpenStreetMap ID
node 3310323677OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2655553Wikidata ID
Q1853617
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Bishopstone” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Bishopstone”
- Chinese: “Bishopstone”
- Dutch: “Bishopstone”
- French: “Bishopstone (Swindon)”
- French: “Bishopstone”
- Irish: “Bishopstone”
- Japanese: “ビショップストーン”
- Ladin: “Bishopstone”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bishopstone (Swindon)”
- Polish: “Bishopstone”
- Swedish: “Bishopstone, Swindon”
- Swedish: “Bishopstone”
- Turkish: “Bishopstone, Swindon”
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Highlights include Bishopstone Church of England Primary School and Bishopstone 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 “Bishopstone”. Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.