Oxfordshire
Vale of White Horse District
Ashbury

Ashbury

Ashbury is a village and large civil parish at the upper end of the . It was part of until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to .
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  • Type: Village with 506 residents
  • Description: village and civil parish in Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England
  • Also known as: “Ashbury, Oxfordshire”, “Ashbury, Oxon”, and “Eissesberie”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wayland’s Smithy and Uffington Castle.

Archaeological site
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Wayland's Smithy is an Early Neolithic chambered long barrow located near the village of Ashbury in the south-central county of . The barrow is believed to have been completed around 3430 BCE by pastoral communities shortly after the introduction of agriculture to the British Isles from continental Europe.

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is an early Iron Age univallate hillfort in , England. It covers about 3.2 ha and is surrounded by two earth banks separated by a ditch with an entrance in the western end. is situated 2½ miles east of Ashbury.

Archaeological site
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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 . It lies 2–3 km south of the Ridgeway and is protected as a Scheduled Ancient Monument. is situated 2 miles southeast of Ashbury.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Idstone and Bishopstone.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet in the civil parish of Ashbury in the . was part of until the 1974 boundary changes transferred the Vale of White Horse to . is about 6 miles east of in neighbouring .

Village
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is a village and civil parish in the , England, about 6 miles east of , and on the county border with .

Village
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is a village and civil parish in the , England, about 4 miles southeast of in neighbouring . was part of the parish of until 1867, and was in until the 1974 local government boundary changes transferred the Vale of White Horse to . is situated 2½ miles northwest of Ashbury.

Ashbury

Latitude
51.56415° or 51° 33′ 51″ north
Longitude
-1.6197° or 1° 37′ 11″ west
Population
506
Elevation
443 feet (135 metres)
Open location code
9C3WH97J+M4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27460715
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2656975
Wiki­data ID
Q2497333
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Turkish—“Ashbury” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Ashbury (Oxfordshire)”
  • Basque: “Ashbury”
  • Cebuano: “Ashbury (parokya)”
  • Cebuano: “Ashbury”
  • Chinese: “Ashbury”
  • Dutch: “Ashbury”
  • Esperanto: “Ashbury”
  • French: “Ashbury”
  • German: “Ashbury”
  • Greek: “Άσμπουρι”
  • Hebrew: “אייסברי”
  • Hebrew: “אשבורי, אוקספורדשייר”
  • Hebrew: “אשבורי”
  • Hebrew: “אשברי, אוקספורדשייר”
  • Irish: “Ashbury”
  • Ladin: “Ashbury”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ashbury”
  • Persian: “اشبری”
  • Polish: “Ashbury”
  • Spanish: “Ashbury”
  • Swedish: “Ashbury (parish)”
  • Swedish: “Ashbury, Oxfordshire”
  • Turkish: “Ashbury, Oxfordshire”
  • “Ashbury”

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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 “Ashbury”. Photo: David Kemp, CC BY-SA 2.0.