Hitchcopse Pit

Places of Interest

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.

Lashford Lane Fen

Nature reserve

Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Lashford Lane Fen is a 7-hectare nature reserve north of Dry Sandford in Oxfordshire. It is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.

Places in the Area

Abingdon-on-Thames

Photo: Andrew Gray, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Abingdon-on-Thames is in Oxfordshire on the River Thames about 7 miles south of Oxford. It is a busy market town with a good choice of shops, pubs and restaurants. It sits aside the River Thames and having an attractive County Hall.

Marcham

Village

Photo: Bill Nicholls, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Marcham is a village and civil parish about 2 miles west of Abingdon, Oxfordshire. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 1,905. The parish includes the hamlets of Cothill 1+3⁄4 miles east-northeast of the village, and Gozzard's Ford 1+1⁄2 miles northeast of the village. Frilford and Garford used to be townships of Marcham parish, but are now separate civil parishes.

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.

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