Millennium Beacon

Millennium Beacon is a peak in Cumnor, Vale of White Horse District, England and has an elevation of 479 feet. Millennium Beacon is situated nearby to the quarter Cumnor Hill, as well as near the neighborhood Chawley.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Somerville College and Oxford Railway Station.

Somerville College

University

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Somerville College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges.

Oxford Railway Station

Railway station

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Oxford is a main line railway station, one of two that serve the city of Oxford, in Oxfordshire, England. It lies about 0.5 miles west of the city centre, north-west of Frideswide Square and the eastern end of Botley Road.

Worcester College

University

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Worcester College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. The college was founded in 1714 by the benefaction of Sir Thomas Cookes, 2nd Baronet of Norgrove, Worcestershire, whose coat of arms was adopted by the college.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oxford and Sandford-on-Thames.

Oxford

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Oxford is the oldest university city in the United Kingdom, some 50 miles to the west of the capital London in its own county of Oxfordshire, on the rivers Thames and Cherwell.

Sandford-on-Thames

Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Sandford-on-Thames is a village in Oxfordshire, just south of Oxford. It combines the charming peace of a small old-English village with easy access to the nearby city centre, making it a pleasant base from where to explore both Oxford and the surrounding English landscapes.

Cumnor

Village

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Cumnor is a village and civil parish 3½ miles west of the centre of Oxford, England. The village is about 2 miles south-west of Botley and its centre is west of the A420 road to Swindon.

Millennium Beacon

Type: Peak with an elevation of 479 feet
Also known as: “Botley Beacon”
Category: landform
Location: Cumnor, Vale of White Horse District, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.7391° or 51° 44′ 21″ north

Longitude

-1.3041° or 1° 18′ 15″ west

Elevation

479 feet (146 metres)

Open location code

9C3WPMQW+M9

OpenStreetMap ID

node 700961699

OpenStreetMap feature

man_made=beacon

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=peak

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