Boars Hill
Boars Hill is a hamlet 3 miles southwest of Oxford, straddling the boundary between the civil parishes of Sunningwell and Wootton. It consists of about 360 dwellings spread over an area of nearly two square miles as shown on this map from the long established Boars Hill Association.Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet with 561 residents
- Description: village in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Boars Hill, Oxfordshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Jarn Mound and Church of St Peter.
Jarn Mound
Jarn Mound is a mound on Boars Hill which was completed in 1931. It was commissioned by Sir Arthur Evans to provide and preserve the view of the "dreaming spires" of Oxford and the surroundings which the poet Matthew Arnold had immortalised in his poem Thyrsis in 1865.
Chandlings
School
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chandlings, or Chandlings Prep School, known until 2007 as Chandlings Manor School, is an independent co-educational preparatory school at Bagley Wood near Kennington, a village south of Oxford.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chilswell and Bayworth.
Chilswell
Hamlet
Photo: ceridwen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chilswell is a small settlement in the parish of Cumnor, Oxfordshire. It lies between the village of South Hinksey and Boars Hill. In 1974, it was transferred from Berkshire.
Bayworth
Hamlet
Photo: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bayworth is a hamlet in the civil parish of Sunningwell about 3 miles south of Oxford, England. Bayworth was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire.
Sunningwell
Village
Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sunningwell is a village and civil parish about 3+1⁄2 miles south of Oxford, England. The parish includes the village of Bayworth and the eastern part of Boars Hill.
Boars Hill
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Wootton, Vale of White Horse District, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.71606° or 51° 42′ 58″ northLongitude
-1.29102° or 1° 17′ 28″ westPopulation
561Elevation
476 feet (145 metres)Open location code
9C3WPP85+CHOpenStreetMap ID
node 761648093OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
6690171Wikidata ID
Q676053
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Boars Hill” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Boars Hill”
- Dutch: “Boars Hill”
- French: “Boars Hill”
- Irish: “Boars Hill”
- Japanese: “ボアズ・ヒル”
- Polish: “Boars Hill”
- Spanish: “Boars Hill”
- Swedish: “Boars Hill”
- Welsh: “Boars Hill”
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