Old Boars Hill
Old Boars Hill is a neighborhood in Wootton, Vale of White Horse District, England. Old Boars Hill is situated nearby to the hamlet Wootton Village, as well as near the neighborhood Foxcombe Hill.Places of Interest
Highlights include Jarn Mound and Church of St Peter.
Jarn Mound
Jarn Mound is a mound on Boars Hill which was completed in 1931. It was commissioned by Sir Arthur Evans to provide and preserve the view of the "dreaming spires" of Oxford and the surroundings which the poet Matthew Arnold had immortalised in his poem Thyrsis in 1865.
Lashford Lane Fen
Nature reserve
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lashford Lane Fen is a 7-hectare nature reserve north of Dry Sandford in Oxfordshire. It is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Boars Hill and Henwood.
Boars Hill
Hamlet
Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Boars Hill is a hamlet 3 miles southwest of Oxford, straddling the boundary between the civil parishes of Sunningwell and Wootton. It consists of about 360 dwellings spread over an area of nearly two square miles as shown on this map from the long established Boars Hill Association.
Henwood
Hamlet
Henwood is a hamlet in the civil parish of Cumnor, in the Vale of White Horse district, in Oxfordshire, England, about 3.5 miles south-west of Oxford. Historically, Henwood was a single farm in the parish of Cumnor.
Chilswell
Hamlet
Photo: ceridwen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chilswell is a small settlement in the parish of Cumnor, Oxfordshire. It lies between the village of South Hinksey and Boars Hill. In 1974, it was transferred from Berkshire.
Old Boars Hill
- Type: Neighborhood
- Category: locality
- Location: Wootton, Vale of White Horse District, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.71584° or 51° 42′ 57″ northLongitude
-1.30024° or 1° 18′ 1″ westOpen location code
9C3WPM8X+8WOpenStreetMap ID
node 761648073OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhood
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