Oxfordshire
Vale of White Horse District
Uffington

Uffington Castle

Uffington Castle 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.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: hillfort in Oxfordshire, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Uffington Castle Hill Fort”, “Uffington Castle: a univallate hillfort immediately north of the Ridgeway on Whitehorse Hill”, “Uffington Dragon Hill”, and “Woolstone Castle”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Dragon Hill and Church of All Saints.

Peak
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is a small hillock immediately below the Uffington White Horse on the border of the civil parishes of and in the English county of .

Church
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is situated 1 mile north of Uffington Castle.

Archaeological site
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Wayland's Smithy is an Early Neolithic chambered long barrow located near the village of 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. is situated 1¼ miles southwest of Uffington Castle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Woolstone and Kingston Lisle.

Village
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is a village and civil parish about 4+1⁄2 miles south of in the . was part of until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to . The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 210.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in the , , about 4+1⁄2 miles west of and 5 miles south-southeast of . is situated 2 miles northeast of Uffington Castle.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in , about 4 miles south of and 6 miles west of . The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 783. is situated 2 miles north of Uffington Castle.

Uffington Castle

Latitude
51.57499° or 51° 34′ 30″ north
Longitude
-1.56918° or 1° 34′ 9″ west
Elevation
584 feet (178 metres)
Open location code
9C3WHCFJ+X8
Open­Street­Map ID
way 780534647
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
6286342
Wiki­data ID
Q2473790
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Turkish—“Uffington Castle” goes by many names.

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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 “Uffington Castle”. Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.