Hookit’s Plantation

Hookit’s Plantation is a forest in Little Faringdon, West Oxfordshire District, England. Hookit’s Plantation is situated near the village Little Faringdon, as well as near Broughton Poggs.

Places of Interest

Highlights: St Matthew’s Church, Langford and Swinford Museum.

St Matthew’s Church, Langford

Church

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The Parish Church of Saint Matthew, Langford is the Church of England parish church of Langford, a village in West Oxfordshire about 3 miles northeast of Lechlade in neighbouring Gloucestershire.

Swinford Museum

Museum

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Swinford Museum is a small local museum in the village of Filkins, west Oxfordshire, England. The collection covers local domestic, agricultural, trade, and craft tools.

St John's Lock, below the town of Lechlade, Gloucestershire, is the furthest upstream lock on the River Thames in England. The name of the lock derives from a priory that was established nearby in 1250, but which no longer exists.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lechlade and Kelmscott.

Lechlade

Town

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Lechlade is a town at the edge of the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire, England, 55 miles south of Birmingham and 68 miles west of London. It is the highest point at which the River Thames is navigable, although there is a right of navigation that continues south-west into Cricklade, in the neighbouring county of Wiltshire.

Kelmscott

Village

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Kelmscott is a village and civil parish on the River Thames in West Oxfordshire, about 2 miles east of Lechlade in neighbouring Gloucestershire. Since 2001 it has absorbed Little Faringdon, which had been a separate civil parish.

Broadwell

Village

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Broadwell is a village and civil parish about 2 miles south-west of Carterton in West Oxfordshire. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 218.