Beacon Hill
Beacon Hill is a peak in Fonthill Gifford, Wiltshire, England and has an elevation of 794 feet. Beacon Hill is situated nearby to the hamlet Newtown, as well as near the village Fonthill Gifford.Places of Interest
Highlights include Fonthill Abbey and Church of Holy Trinity.
Fonthill Abbey
Building
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Fonthill Abbey—also known as Beckford's Folly—was a large Gothic Revival country house built between 1796 and 1813 at Fonthill Gifford in Wiltshire, England, at the direction of William Thomas Beckford and architect James Wyatt.
Tisbury railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tisbury railway station serves the village of Tisbury in Wiltshire, England. It is currently managed by South Western Railway and is on the West of England Main Line, 96 miles 14 chains down the line from London Waterloo.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wardour and Semley.
Wardour
Hamlet
Photo: Toby, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wardour is a settlement in the civil parish of Tisbury, in Wiltshire, England, about 13 miles west of Salisbury and 4 miles south of Hindon.
Semley
Village
Photo: Trish Steel, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Semley is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sedgehill and Semley, in Wiltshire, England, about 3 miles north-east of Shaftesbury in neighbouring Dorset.
Sedgehill
Village
Photo: Trish Steel, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sedgehill is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sedgehill and Semley, in the southwest of the county of Wiltshire, England. It lies to the west of the A350 primary route, about 3+1⁄4 miles north of Shaftesbury, Dorset.
Beacon Hill
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 794 feet
- Category: landform
- Location: Fonthill Gifford, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.07006° or 51° 4′ 12″ northLongitude
-2.12577° or 2° 7′ 33″ westElevation
794 feet (242 metres)Open location code
9C3V3VCF+2MOpenStreetMap ID
node 9969337333OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakGeoNames ID
12613727
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