Knighton Coombes
Knighton Coombes is a forest in Compton Beauchamp, Vale of White Horse District, England. Knighton Coombes is situated nearby to the hamlet Compton Beauchamp, as well as near the locality Woolstone Wells.Places of Interest
Highlights include Uffington Castle and Dragon Hill.
Uffington Castle
Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Uffington Castle is an early Iron Age univallate hillfort in Oxfordshire, England. It covers about 3.2 ha and is surrounded by two earth banks separated by a ditch with an entrance in the western end.
Dragon Hill
Peak
Photo: Frasmacon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dragon Hill is a small hillock immediately below the Uffington White Horse on the border of the civil parishes of Uffington and Woolstone in the English county of Oxfordshire.
Wayland’s Smithy
Archaeological site
Photo: Msemmett, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wayland's Smithy is an Early Neolithic chambered long barrow located near the village of Ashbury in the south-central English county of Oxfordshire. The barrow is believed to have been completed around 3430 BCE by pastoral communities shortly after the introduction of agriculture to the British Isles from continental Europe.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shrivenham and Ashbury.
Shrivenham
Village
Photo: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Shrivenham is a village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England, about 5 miles south-west of Faringdon. The village is close to the county boundary with Wiltshire and about 5 miles east-northeast of the centre of Swindon.
Ashbury
Village
Photo: David Kemp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ashbury is a village and large civil parish at the upper end of the Vale of White Horse. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire.
Uffington
Village
Photo: Ballista, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Uffington is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about 4 miles south of Faringdon and 6 miles west of Wantage. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 783.
Knighton Coombes
Latitude
51.5758° or 51° 34′ 33″ northLongitude
-1.5956° or 1° 35′ 44″ westOpen location code
9C3WHCG3+8QOpenStreetMap ID
way 172547117OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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