Compton Beauchamp
Compton Beauchamp is a hamlet and civil parish 3 miles southeast of Shrivenham in the Vale of White Horse, England. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. The 2001 Census recorded the parish's population as 50.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 66 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England
- Also known as: “Compton Beauchamp, Oxfordshire” and “Compton Beauchamp, Oxon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Uffington Castle and Dragon Hill.
Uffington Castle
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Uffington Castle is an early Iron Age univallate hillfort in Oxfordshire, 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.
Dragon Hill
Peak
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Dragon Hill is a small hillock immediately below the Uffington White Horse on the border of the civil parishes of Uffington and Woolstone in the English county of Oxfordshire.
Wayland’s Smithy
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 English county of Oxfordshire. 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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ashbury and Uffington.
Ashbury
Village
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Ashbury is a village and large civil parish at the upper end of the Vale of White Horse. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire.
Uffington
Village
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Uffington is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about 4 miles south of Faringdon and 6 miles west of Wantage. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 783. Uffington is situated 2½ miles northeast of Compton Beauchamp.
Shrivenham
Village
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Shrivenham is a village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England, about 5 miles south-west of Faringdon. The village is close to the county boundary with Wiltshire and about 5 miles east-northeast of the centre of Swindon. Shrivenham is situated 3½ miles northwest of Compton Beauchamp.
Compton Beauchamp
- Categories: village and civil parish
- Location: Vale of White Horse District, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Compton Beauchamp” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Compton Beauchamp”
- Chinese: “Compton Beauchamp”
- Dutch: “Compton Beauchamp”
- French: “Compton Beauchamp”
- Irish: “Compton Beauchamp”
- Ladin: “Compton Beauchamp”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Compton Beauchamp”
- Polish: “Compton Beauchamp”
- Swedish: “Compton Beauchamp”
- Turkish: “Compton Beauchamp”
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Highlights include Whitehorse Hill and Rams Hill.
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