Pitstone Hill
Pitstone Hill is a 22.9-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Importance east of Pitstone in Buckinghamshire. It is in the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and is crossed by the Ridgeway National Trail.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Chris Heaton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tring railway station and Bridgewater Monument.
Tring railway station
Railway station
Photo: Chris Reynolds, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tring railway station is 1.5 miles outside the market town of Tring, close to the Grand Union Canal but actually nearer to the village of Aldbury in Hertfordshire, England.
Bridgewater Monument
Photo: Pointillist, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Bridgewater Monument is a Grade II* listed monumental column in the Ashridge estate in Hertfordshire, England. It was built in 1832 to commemorate Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, known as the "Canal Duke".
College Lake nature reserve
Nature reserve
College Lake is a 65 hectare nature reserve in a former chalk quarry in Pitstone in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire. It is one of the flagship reserves of the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust, and it has an information centre, education facilities, a café, toilets and a shop.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tring and Aldbury.
Tring
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tring is a commuter town of 12,000 people in Hertfordshire, England. It site in a gap passing through the Chiltern Hills, classed as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is 30 miles from central London within the London commuter belt.
Aldbury
Village
Photo: Chuunen Baka, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Aldbury is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, near the borders of Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire in the Bulbourne valley of the Chiltern Hills, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Dagnall
Village
Photo: David Howard, CC BY 2.0.
Dagnall is a village in the parish of Edlesborough, in Buckinghamshire, England. The place name is derived from the Old English for "Daegga's Knoll". In manorial rolls of 1196 it was listed as Dagenhale.
Pitstone Hill
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 719 feet
- Description: hill in England
- Category: landform
- Location: Aldbury, Dacorum District, Hertfordshire, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.8175° or 51° 49′ 3″ northLongitude
-0.623° or 0° 37′ 23″ westElevation
719 feet (219 metres)Open location code
9C3XR99G+2QOpenStreetMap ID
node 258051191OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakWikidata ID
Q22004818
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In Other Languages
“Pitstone Hill” goes by many names.
- Turkish: “Pitstone Hill”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Church End and Barley End.
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Highlights include Aldbury Nowers and Paul’s Knob.
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