Dragon Hill
Dragon Hill is a small hillock immediately below the Uffington White Horse on the border of the civil parishes of Uffington and Woolstone in the English county of Oxfordshire.Photo: Frasmacon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 627 feet
- Description: hill near Uffington, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Dragon Hill, Uffington”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Uffington Castle and Wayland’s Smithy.
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.
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.
Tom Brown’s School Museum
Museum
Photo: andy dolman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tom Brown's School Museum is a local museum in the village of Uffington, Oxfordshire, England. It was opened in 1984. The museum covers local history, archaeology, the author Thomas Hughes, the poet laureate Sir John Betjeman, and the nearby ancient Uffington White Horse.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Uffington and Kingston Lisle.
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.
Kingston Lisle
Village
Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kingston Lisle is a village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse, England, about 4+1⁄2 miles west of Wantage and 5 miles south-southeast of Faringdon.
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.
Dragon Hill
- Categories: hill and landform
- Location: Uffington, Vale of White Horse District, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.5799° or 51° 34′ 48″ northLongitude
-1.5675° or 1° 34′ 3″ westElevation
627 feet (191 metres)Open location code
9C3WHCHJ+WXOpenStreetMap ID
node 338068508OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakWikidata ID
Q5305216
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Serbian—“Dragon Hill” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “優芬頓龍丘”
- Dutch: “Dragon Hill, Uffington”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل دراجون هيل”
- Serbian: “Змајево брдо”
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Localities in the Area
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Highlights include The Giant’s Stair and Uffington Wood.
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