Upwood Quarry
Upwood Quarry is a quarry in Marcham, Vale of White Horse District, England. Upwood Quarry is situated nearby to the nature reserve Parsonage Moor, as well as near Hitchcopse Pit.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Parsonage Moor and Hitchcopse Pit.
Parsonage Moor
Nature reserve
Parsonage Moor is a 6-hectare nature reserve north-west of Abingdon-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. It is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.
Hitchcopse Pit
Nature reserve
Hitchcopse Pit is a 3-hectare nature reserve north-west of Abingdon-on-Thames in Oxfordshire. It is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.
Dry Sandford Pit
Nature reserve
Photo: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dry Sandford Pit is a 4.2-hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Abingdon-on-Thames in Oxfordshire. It is a Geological Conservation Review site and it is managed as a nature reserve by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dry Sandford and Besselsleigh.
Dry Sandford
Village
Photo: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dry Sandford is a village in the Vale of White Horse district of England, about 3 miles north-west of Abingdon. It is one of two villages in the civil parish of St Helen Without.
Besselsleigh
Hamlet
Photo: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Besselsleigh or Bessels Leigh is an English village and civil parish about 4+1⁄2 miles southwest of Oxford. Besselsleigh was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire.
Appleton
Village
Photo: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Appleton is a village in the civil parish of Appleton-with-Eaton, about 4 miles northwest of Abingdon. Appleton was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire.
Upwood Quarry
- Type: Quarry
- Category: industry
- Location: Marcham, Vale of White Horse District, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.6972° or 51° 41′ 50″ northLongitude
-1.34273° or 1° 20′ 34″ westOperator
Hills QuarryOpen location code
9C3WMMW4+VWOpenStreetMap ID
way 204091719OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=quarry
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