Foredown Plantation

Foredown Plantation is a forest in West Hendred, Vale of White Horse District, England. Foredown 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: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

Research institute

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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 East Hendred.

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.

East Hendred

Village

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East Hendred is a village and civil parish about 4 miles east of Wantage in the Vale of White Horse and a similar distance west of Didcot. The village is on East Hendred Brook, which flows from the Berkshire Downs to join the River Thames at Sutton Courtenay.