Upper Plantation

Upper Plantation is a forest in West Hendred, Vale of White Horse District, England. Upper Plantation is situated nearby to the hamlet East Ginge, as well as near West Ginge.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Scutchamer Knob and Church of All Saints.

Scutchamer Knob

Archaeological site

Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Scutchamer Knob, also known as Cuckhamsley Hill and occasionally as Scotsman's Knob or Beacon Hill, is an early Iron Age round barrow on the Ridgeway National Trail at East Hendred Down in the English county of Oxfordshire.

Church of All Saints

Church

Photo: Pam Brophy, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

Research institute

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory is one of the national scientific research laboratories in the UK operated by the Science and Technology Facilities Council.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wantage and Farnborough.

Wantage

Photo: Andrew Mathewson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Wantage is a small town in Oxfordshire, 16 miles southwest of Oxford. It's on the edge of the Berkshire Downs and nowadays administered as part of the Vale of White Horse district.

Farnborough

Village

Photo: Pam Brophy, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Farnborough is a village and civil parish in West Berkshire, about 4 miles south of Wantage. The village is 720 feet above sea level on a ridge aligned east – west in the Berkshire Downs. It is the highest village in Berkshire.