Compton Beauchamp

Compton Beauchamp is a hamlet in Compton Beauchamp, Vale of White Horse District, England. Compton Beauchamp is situated nearby to the hamlet Knighton, as well as near the locality Woolstone Wells.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Church of St Swithun and Wayland’s Smithy.

Church of St Swithun

Church

Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Wayland’s Smithy

Archaeological site

Photo: Msemmett, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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.

Church of All Saints

Church

Photo: Andrew Mathewson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Woolstone and Ashbury.

Woolstone

Village

Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Woolstone is a village and civil parish about 4+1⁄2 miles south of Faringdon in the Vale of White Horse. Woolstone was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 210.

Ashbury

Village

Photo: David Kemp, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Ashbury is a village and large civil parish at the upper end of the Vale of White Horse. It is part of the historic county of Berkshire but became administratively a part of Oxfordshire in the Local Government Act 1972.

Uffington

Village

Photo: Ballista, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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 2 miles northeast of Compton Beauchamp.

Compton Beauchamp

Type: Hamlet
Category: locality
Location: Compton Beauchamp, Vale of White Horse District, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.58119° or 51° 34′ 52″ north

Longitude

-1.59746° or 1° 35′ 51″ west

Elevation

358 feet (109 metres)

Open location code

9C3WHCJ3+F2

OpenStreetMap ID

node 339526180

OpenStreetMap feature

place=hamlet

GeoNames ID

13278885

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