Besselsleigh
Besselsleigh or Bessels Leigh is an English village and civil parish about 4+1⁄2 miles southwest of Oxford. Besselsleigh was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 94 residents
- Description: hamlet and civil parish in Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England
- Also known as: “Bessels Leigh”, “Besselsleigh, Oxfordshire”, and “Besselsleigh, Oxon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Parsonage Moor and Hitchcopse Pit.
Parsonage Moor
Nature reserve
Parsonage Moor is a 6-hectare nature reserve north-west of Abingdon-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. It is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.
Hitchcopse Pit
Nature reserve
Hitchcopse Pit is a 3-hectare nature reserve north-west of Abingdon-on-Thames in Oxfordshire. It is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.
Lashford Lane Fen
Nature reserve
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lashford Lane Fen is a 7-hectare nature reserve north of Dry Sandford in Oxfordshire. It is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Abingdon-on-Thames and Cumnor.
Abingdon-on-Thames
Photo: Andrew Gray, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Abingdon-on-Thames is in Oxfordshire on the River Thames about 7 miles south of Oxford. It is a busy market town with a good choice of shops, pubs and restaurants. It sits aside the River Thames and having an attractive County Hall.
Cumnor
Village
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Cumnor is a village and civil parish 3½ miles west of the centre of Oxford, England. The village is about 2 miles south-west of Botley and its centre is west of the A420 road to Swindon.
Appleton
Village
Photo: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Appleton is a village in the civil parish of Appleton-with-Eaton, about 4 miles northwest of Abingdon. Appleton was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire.
Besselsleigh
- Categories: civil parish, hamlet, and locality
- Location: Vale of White Horse District, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.7132° or 51° 42′ 48″ northLongitude
-1.3365° or 1° 20′ 12″ westPopulation
94Elevation
318 feet (97 metres)Open location code
9C3WPM77+79OpenStreetMap ID
node 269226948OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
7292136Wikidata ID
Q2616462
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Turkish—“Besselsleigh” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Беселслеигх”
- Cebuano: “Besselsleigh”
- Chinese: “Besselsleigh”
- Czech: “Besselsleigh”
- Dutch: “Besselsleigh”
- French: “Besselsleigh”
- German: “Besselsleigh”
- Irish: “Besselsleigh”
- Ladin: “Besselsleigh”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Besselsleigh”
- Polish: “Besselsleigh”
- Portuguese: “Besselsleigh”
- Russian: “Бесселсли”
- Slovak: “Besselsleigh”
- Swedish: “Besselsleigh”
- Turkish: “Besselsleigh”
- “Besselsleigh”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Henwood and Dry Sandford.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Rockley Copse and Saint Lawrence.
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