Birch Wood

Birch Wood is a forest in West Hendred, Vale of White Horse District, England. Birch Wood is situated nearby to the hamlet Betterton, as well as near East 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: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Church of the Holy Trinity, West Hendred

Church

Photo: Andrew Mathewson, 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.

East Hendred

Village

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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.

Birch Wood

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

51.5671° or 51° 34′ 2″ north

Longitude

-1.3708° or 1° 22′ 15″ west

Open location code

9C3WHJ8H+RM

OpenStreetMap ID

way 45025513

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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