Higham Gobion
Higham Gobion is a village in the civil parish of Shillington, in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. It is located between the villages of Shillington and Barton-le-Clay.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Rodney Burton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: village in Bedfordshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Higham Gobian”, “Higham Gobion Castle”, and “Higham Gobion, Bedfordshire”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Parish Church of Saint Margaret and Hexton Chalk Pit.
Parish Church of Saint Margaret
Church
Photo: Rodney Burton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Parish Church of Saint Margaret is situated 1,700 feet south of Higham Gobion.
Hexton Chalk Pit
Nature reserve
Hexton Chalk Pit is a 1.9-hectare nature reserve in Hexton in North Hertfordshire, managed by the Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust. It is grassland with steep slopes and many chalk-loving plants such as horseshoe vetch, yellow-wort, milkwort and rockrose. Hexton Chalk Pit is situated 2 miles south of Higham Gobion.
Knocking Hoe
Nature reserve
Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Knocking Hoe is a 7.7-hectare National Nature Reserve and biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Pegsdon in Bedfordshire. It is mentioned in A Nature Conservation Review. Knocking Hoe is situated 2 miles southeast of Higham Gobion.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Apsley End and Shillington.
Apsley End
Locality
Shillington is a village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England. In the south of the parish the hamlet of Pegsdon includes the Pegsdon hills nature reserve and is a salient of the county into Hertfordshire.
Shillington
Village
Photo: David Kemp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Shillington is a village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England. In the south of the parish the hamlet of Pegsdon includes the Pegsdon hills nature reserve and is a salient of the county into Hertfordshire.
Higham Gobion
- Categories: village, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Shillington, Central Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.98688° or 51° 59′ 13″ northLongitude
-0.39139° or 0° 23′ 29″ westElevation
180 feet (55 metres)Open location code
9C3XXJP5+QCOpenStreetMap ID
node 6090142449OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Higham Gobion” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هيم غبين”
- Dutch: “Higham Gobion”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هيم جبين”
- French: “Higham Gobion”
- Irish: “Higham Gobion”
- Japanese: “ハイアム・ゴビオン”
- Persian: “هایهم گوبیون”
- Polish: “Higham Gobion”
- Swedish: “Higham Gobion”
- Turkish: “Higham Gobion”
- Welsh: “Higham Gobion”
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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 “Higham Gobion”. Photo: Rodney Burton, CC BY-SA 2.0.