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 nearby to the locality Bailey Hill, as well as near Near Down.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include 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 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 was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire.
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″ northLongitude
-1.5851° or 1° 35′ 6″ westElevation
722 feet (220 metres)Open location code
9C3WGCQ7+9XOpenStreetMap ID
node 705835800OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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