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 former sand quarry and now a biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Abingdon-on-Thames in Oxfordshire.

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 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″ north

Longitude

-1.34273° or 1° 20′ 34″ west

Operator

Hills Quarry

Open location code

9C3WMMW4+VW

OpenStreetMap ID

way 204091719

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=quarry

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