Howcombe
Howcombe is a forest in Sherborne, Cotswold District, England. Howcombe is situated nearby to the hamlet Clapton-on-the-Hill, as well as near the village Great Rissington.Places of Interest
Highlights include Birdland Park and Gardens and Church of St Mary Magdalene, Adjoining Sherborne House.
Birdland Park and Gardens
Zoo
Photo: David Stowell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Birdland Park and Gardens, often called Birdland, is a wildlife park in Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England. First opened in 1957, the park moved to its current site in 1989.
Church of St Mary Magdalene, Adjoining Sherborne House
Church
Photo: Christopher Hilton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bourton-on-the-Water model village
Photo: Mrfinch, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bourton-on-the-Water model village is a scale model village in the grounds of the Old New Inn in Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England. One of the first model villages in the country, it was started in 1936 and completed in 1940.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bourton-on-the-Water and Wyck Rissington.
Bourton-on-the-Water
Photo: Tanya Dedyukhina, CC BY 3.0.
Bourton-on-the-Water is famed for its picturesque High Street. Lying on the meandering River Windrush with several low arched stone bridges resulted in the village becoming known as "Venice of the Cotswolds".
Wyck Rissington
Village
Photo: Dave.Dunford, Public domain.
Wyck Rissington is a village and civil parish in the picturesque Cotswold hills of Gloucestershire, England. The village is located 1.5 miles north-east of Bourton-on-the-Water.
Great Barrington
Village
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Great Barrington is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Barrington, in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It lies in the north bank of the River Windrush, 3 miles west of the town of Burford, Oxfordshire.
Howcombe
- Type: Forest
- Location: Sherborne, Cotswold District, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.8522° or 51° 51′ 8″ northLongitude
-1.7459° or 1° 44′ 45″ westOpen location code
9C3WV723+VJOpenStreetMap ID
way 1360083919OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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