Tower Hill

Places of Interest

Alfred’s Castle

Archaeological site

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Alfred's Castle is a small Iron Age hill fort, situated at grid reference SU277822, behind Ashdown Park in the civil parish of Ashbury in Oxfordshire. It lies 2–3 km south of the Ridgeway and is protected as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

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.

Uffington Castle

Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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.

Places in the Area

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 was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire.

Bishopstone

Village

Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bishopstone is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Swindon, England, about 6 miles east of Swindon, and on the county border with Oxfordshire.

Woolstone

Village

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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.

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