Shotover Reservoir

Shotover Reservoir is a waterworks in Forest Hill with Shotover, South Oxfordshire District, England. Shotover Reservoir is situated near the museum The Kilns, as well as near Science Oxford Centre.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: The Kilns and Shotover.

The Kilns

Museum

Photo: jschroe, CC BY 2.0.

The Kilns, also known as C. S. Lewis House, is the house in Risinghurst, Oxford, England, where the author C. S. Lewis wrote all of his Narnia books and other classics. The Kilns is situated 1,000 feet northeast of Shotover Reservoir.

Shotover

Peak

Photo: tony wilcock, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Shotover is a hill and forest in the civil parish of Forest Hill with Shotover, in the South Oxfordshire district, in the county of Oxfordshire, England. The hill is 3 miles east of Oxford. Its highest point is 557 feet above sea level.

Holy Trinity Church

Church

Photo: EugeneStarostin, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Holy Trinity Church, Headington Quarry, is located in the village of Headington Quarry, Oxford, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the Diocese of Oxford. Holy Trinity Church is situated 1,900 feet northwest of Shotover Reservoir.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wood Farm and Barton.

Wood Farm

Suburb

Wood Farm is a suburb of Oxford, England, 3.5 miles southeast of the city centre. It is mainly made up of social housing built in the 1950s to 1960s, originally to house workers of the nearby car factory. It is near to Headington, Cowley and Morrell Avenue.

Barton

Suburb

Photo: David Hawgood, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Barton is a village and suburb of Oxford, in Oxfordshire, England. It is 3 miles east of the centre of Oxford, just outside the Oxford Ring Road. It is near to Headington, Risinghurst and Marston.

Headington Hill

Neighborhood

Photo: BrainVE, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Headington Hill is a hill in the east of Oxford, England, in the suburb of Headington. The Headington Road goes up the hill leading out of the city. There are good views of the spires of Oxford from the hill, especially from the top of South Park.

Shotover Reservoir

Type: Waterworks
Category: industry
Location: Forest Hill with Shotover, South Oxfordshire District, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.75421° or 51° 45′ 15″ north

Longitude

-1.19173° or 1° 11′ 30″ west

Open location code

9C3WQR35+M8

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1476775371

OpenStreetMap feature

man_made=water_works

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Shotover Reservoir and Richards Way Children’s Ball Park.

Nearby Places

Places to explore: Shotover Trading Estate and Risinghurst Allotments.

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