Yew Down

Yew Down is a forest in Lockinge, Vale of White Horse District, England. Yew Down is situated nearby to the village Farnborough, as well as near the hamlet Kitford.

Places of Interest

Highlights include All Saints Church, Farnborough and Scutchamer Knob.

All Saints Church, Farnborough

Church

Photo: Rob Stallard, CC BY-SA 3.0.

All Saints Church, Farnborough is a Grade I listed Church of England parish church in Farnborough, Berkshire, England.

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: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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.

Fawley

Village

Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Fawley is a village and civil parish in West Berkshire, England. The hub of the village is centred 3.5 miles east of Lambourn and has a sub-community within its bounds, Little or South Fawley.

Yew Down

Type: Forest
Location: Lockinge, Vale of White Horse District, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.5532° or 51° 33′ 12″ north

Longitude

-1.3911° or 1° 23′ 28″ west

Open location code

9C3WHJ35+7H

OpenStreetMap ID

way 206539925

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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