Whitchurch Hill
Whitchurch Hill is a village in the Chiltern Hills in Oxfordshire, about 5.5 miles northwest of Reading, Berkshire, near Whitchurch-on-Thames. The Church of England parish church of Saint John the Baptist was designed by the architect Francis Bacon and built in 1883.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Pam Brophy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Whitchurch Hill, Oxfordshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St John the Baptist, Whitchurch Hill and The Oratory Preparatory School.
The Oratory Preparatory School
School
The Oratory Prep School is a Catholic day and boarding school for some 330 boys and girls aged from two to thirteen, founded in 1925. The school is co-educational and is separate from the nearby Oratory School, although they share a similar history.
Castrol Technology Centre
The Castrol Technology Centre is a research institute owned by BP in South Oxfordshire, north of Whitchurch-on-Thames.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Crays Pond and Pangbourne.
Crays Pond
Hamlet
Crays Pond is a hamlet situated in the parish of Goring Heath in South Oxfordshire. Crays Pond is about 2.4 miles northeast of Goring-on-Thames and about 7.0 miles northwest of Reading, Berkshire.
Pangbourne
Village
Photo: Chris j wood, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Reading is a large, historic town in Berkshire in the South East of England. It is one of the largest towns without city status in the United Kingdom with just under 235,000 inhabitants. Pangbourne is situated 1½ miles south of Whitchurch Hill.
Lower Basildon
Village
Photo: Pam Brophy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lower Basildon is a small English village in the civil parish of Basildon, near Pangbourne, in the county of Berkshire. Lower Basildon is situated 2 miles west of Whitchurch Hill.
Whitchurch Hill
- Category: locality
- Location: Goring Heath, South Oxfordshire District, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.50724° or 51° 30′ 26″ northLongitude
-1.07764° or 1° 4′ 40″ westElevation
410 feet (125 metres)Open location code
9C3WGW4C+VWOpenStreetMap ID
node 22948184OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Whitchurch Hill” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Whitchurch Hill”
- Dutch: “Whitchurch Hill”
- French: “Whitchurch Hill”
- Irish: “Whitchurch Hill”
- Polish: “Whitchurch Hill”
- Spanish: “Whitchurch Hill”
- Swedish: “Whitchurch Hill”
- Welsh: “Whitchurch Hill”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Path Hill and Goring Heath.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Goring Heath Parish Hall and Beech Wood.
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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 “Whitchurch Hill”. Photo: Pam Brophy, CC BY-SA 2.0.