Foxcombe Hill
Foxcombe Hill is a neighborhood in Sunningwell, Vale of White Horse District, England. Foxcombe Hill is situated nearby to the hamlet Boars Hill, as well as near Bayworth.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Jarn Mound and Chandlings.
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.Chandlings
School
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chandlings, or Chandlings Prep School, known until 2007 as Chandlings Manor School, is an independent co-educational preparatory school at Bagley Wood near Kennington, a village south of Oxford.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Boars Hill and Bayworth.
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.
Bayworth
Hamlet
Photo: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bayworth is a hamlet in the civil parish of Sunningwell about 3 miles south of Oxford. Bayworth was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire.
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.
Foxcombe Hill
- Type: Neighborhood
- Category: locality
- Location: Sunningwell, Vale of White Horse District, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.71357° or 51° 42′ 49″ northLongitude
-1.2844° or 1° 17′ 4″ westOpen location code
9C3WPP78+C6OpenStreetMap ID
node 8621938863OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhood
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