Weathercock Hill

Weathercock Hill is a peak in Ashbury, Vale of White Horse District, England and has an elevation of 722 feet. Weathercock Hill is situated near the locality Compton Bottom, as well as near Near Down.

Places of Interest

Highlights: Alfred’s Castle and Wayland’s Smithy.

Alfred’s Castle

Archaeological site

Photo: Garyrobertlock, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

Nearby places include Lambourn and Ashbury.

Lambourn

Village

Photo: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Lambourn is a village and civil parish in West Berkshire, England. It lies just north of the M4 motorway between Swindon and Newbury, and borders Wiltshire to the west and Oxfordshire to the north.

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.

Baydon

Village

Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Baydon is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England about 10 miles south-east of Swindon. The eastern boundary of the parish forms part of the county boundary with Berkshire, and the village is about 7 miles north-west of the West Berkshire market town of Hungerford.

Weathercock Hill

Type: Peak with an elevation of 722 feet
Category: landform
Location: Ashbury, Vale of White Horse District, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.5385° or 51° 32′ 19″ north

Longitude

-1.5851° or 1° 35′ 6″ west

Elevation

722 feet (220 metres)

Open location code

9C3WGCQ7+9X

OpenStreetMap ID

node 705835800

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=peak

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Compton Bottom and Near Down.

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Highlights: Kingstone Down and Parterre.

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