Glatting Beacon

Glatting Beacon is a peak in Bignor, Chichester District, England and has an elevation of 804 feet. Glatting Beacon is situated nearby to the locality Gumber Corner, as well as near Scotcher’s Bottom.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bignor Hill and Bignor Roman Villa.

Bignor Hill

Peak

Photo: Simon Carey, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bignor Hill is a hill near Bignor in Sussex. The South Downs Way passes over the hill. Near the summit are the remains of a memorial to Toby Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, the secretary of the Cowdray Hounds; this is called Toby's Stone.

Bignor Roman Villa

Archaeological site

Photo: Trevor Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bignor Roman Villa is a large Roman courtyard villa which has been excavated and put on public display on the Bignor estate in the English county of West Sussex.

St Mary The Virgin, Upwaltham

Church

Photo: Charlesdrakew, Public domain.

St Mary The Virgin, Upwaltham is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include West Burton and Slindon.

West Burton

Village

Photo: Charlesdrakew, Public domain.

West Burton is a small hamlet in the Parish of Bury and the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. It lies between Bignor and Bury on the Lower Greensand ridge, 4.5 miles southwest of Pulborough.

Slindon

Village

Photo: Chrispaxly99, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Slindon is a mostly rural village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, containing a developed nucleus amid woodland. Much of Slindon's woodland belongs to the National Trust on the southern edge of the escarpment of the South Downs National Park.

Houghton

Village

Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Houghton is a low-population, linear settlement with a large elevated tract of land which is mostly wooded and two main farms forming its civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England.

Glatting Beacon

Type: Peak with an elevation of 804 feet
Category: landform
Location: Bignor, Chichester District, West Sussex, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

50.90943° or 50° 54′ 34″ north

Longitude

-0.62808° or 0° 37′ 41″ west

Elevation

804 feet (245 metres)

Open location code

9C2XW95C+QQ

OpenStreetMap ID

node 5469297402

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=peak

GeoNames ID

12610181

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