Balking
in Oxfordshire of England, United Kingdom
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RAF Brize Norton (10 mi) - RAF Fairford (12 mi)
- Oxford (Kidlington) Airport (18 mi)
- RAF Benson (19 mi)
- RAF Lyneham (21 mi)
- Gloucestershire Airport (33 mi)
- Lasham Airport (37 mi)
- Southampton Airport (46 mi)
- Birmingham International Airport (59 mi)
- Bournemouth Airport (59 mi)
- City of Bath (Unesco heritage, 17 mi)
- Blenheim Palace (Unesco heritage, 42 mi)
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape (Unesco heritage, 60 mi)
- Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites (Unesco heritage, 66 mi)
- Dorset and East Devon Coast (Unesco heritage, 67 mi)
- Tower of London (Unesco heritage, 70 mi)
- Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey including Saint Margaret’s Church (Unesco heritage, 72 mi)
- Derwent Valley Mills (Unesco heritage, 107 mi)
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal (Unesco heritage, 110 mi)
- Frilford Heath Golf Club (Golf course, 12 mi)
- Birdland Park and Gardens (zoo, (21 mi)
- Decimal Coordinates (Latitude, Longitude):
- 51.613 and -1.543 (Lat./Lng.)
- Coordinates by Time:
- N 51° 36' 46" and W -1° 32' 33"
- Currency and Currency Code:
- Pound - GBP
- Spoken languages:
- English, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic
- Local electricity:
- 230 V - 50 Hz (plugs: G)
- Mobile phone / cellular frequencies (MHz):
- 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 3G, 4G
- Local Time: 04:56 PM (Thursday)
- Timezone: Europe/London
- UTC/GMT offset: 0 hours
- Sunrise and Sunset:
- 7:24 am and 4:16 pm
- Antipode Coordinates:
- -43.750 and 173.083 (Lat./Lng.)
- Closest place to antipode coordinates:
Le Bons Bay - References
- This place on Geonames.org
Safety Score: 3,0 of 5.0 based on data from 9 authorites. Meaning we advice caution when travelling to United Kingdom.
Travel warnings are updated daily. Source: Travel Warning United Kingdom. Last Update: 2024-08-13 08:21:03
Discover Balking
Balking in Oxfordshire (England) is a town in United Kingdom about 61 mi (or 99 km) west of London, the country's capital city.
Current time in Balking is now 04:56 PM (Thursday). The local timezone is named Europe / London with an UTC offset of zero hours. We know of 10 airports near Balking, of which 5 are larger airports. The closest airport in United Kingdom is RAF Brize Norton in a distance of 10 mi (or 16 km), North. Besides the airports, there are other travel options available (check left side).
There are several Unesco world heritage sites nearby. The closest heritage site in United Kingdom is City of Bath in a distance of 17 mi (or 27 km), South. Also, if you like playing golf, there is an option about 12 mi (or 19 km). away. We discovered 1 points of interest in the vicinity of this place. Looking for a place to stay? we compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
When in this area, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Bishopstone, Wanborough, Chilton Foliat, Frilford and Farnborough. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 10°C / 50 °F
| Morning Temperature | 9°C / 48 °F |
| Evening Temperature | 10°C / 49 °F |
| Night Temperature | 5°C / 40 °F |
| Chance of rainfall | 0% |
| Air Humidity | 79% |
| Air Pressure | 1033 hPa |
| Wind Speed | Gentle Breeze with 9 km/h (5 mph) from South-West |
| Cloud Conditions | Broken clouds, covering 53% of sky |
| General Conditions | Broken clouds |
Friday, 15th of November 2024
8°C (47 °F)
5°C (40 °F)
Overcast clouds, light breeze.
Saturday, 16th of November 2024
8°C (47 °F)
7°C (44 °F)
Scattered clouds, gentle breeze.
Sunday, 17th of November 2024
7°C (44 °F)
3°C (38 °F)
Light rain, moderate breeze, overcast clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
The Star Inn
Sudbury House
The Old Crown Relaxinnz
Videos from this area
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Faringdon Arts Festival 2010
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Goldeneye TV - A chilled trip from our moorings to Radcot Lock
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Faringdon Arts Festival 2010: Quadrophobe
The end of Quadrophobe's set on Friday night at the Faringdon Arts Festival 2010. Excellent two tone ska stuff from a local band.
Boat trip 2008
Boat trip 2008.
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Thames Floods Friday 23rd Nov 2012
The 2012 November floods on the Thames, this video shows the increased flows under Radcot Bridge and the effect this has on our moorings which are actually underwater. Video posted by Navigator.
Circles Turning Circles Film Studies A Level Documentary
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Uffington White Horse
The Uffington White Horse is a highly stylized prehistoric hill figure, 110 m long (374 feet), formed from deep trenches filled with crushed white chalk. The figure is situated on the upper slopes of White Horse Hill in the English civil parish of Uffington, some 8 km south of the town of Faringdon and a similar distance west of the town of Wantage. The hill forms a part of the scarp of the Berkshire Downs and overlooks the Vale of White Horse to the north.
Vale of White Horse
The Vale of White Horse is a local government district of Oxfordshire in England. The main town is Abingdon, other places include Faringdon and Wantage. There are 68 parishes within the district. The current Leader of the Council is Matthew Barber. It is a geographically distinct region, lying between the Berkshire Downs and the River Thames, named after the Bronze Age Uffington White Horse.
Dragon Hill, Uffington
Dragon Hill is a small hillock immediately below the Uffington White Horse on the border of the civil parishes of Uffington and Woolstone in the English county of Oxfordshire. In 1974 it was transferred from Berkshire. Dragon Hill is a natural chalk hill with an artificial flat-top, to which clings the legend that it was on its summit that Saint George slew the dragon. A bare patch of chalk upon which no grass will grow is purported to be where the dragon's blood spilled.
Berkshire Downs
The Berkshire Downs are a range of chalk downland hills in southern England, part of the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The Berkshire Downs were wholly within Berkshire until the 1974 reorganisation of local government boundaries divided them between the counties of Berkshire and Oxfordshire. The name "White Horse Downs" was proposed following the 1974 change in county boundaries, but has not been widely adopted.
Westcot
WestCOT was a planned theme park that was to be built at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California on the site of Disneyland Park's former parking lot. It was intended to be a west coast version of EPCOT Center, a theme park devoted to international science and knowledge at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. The project was announced in 1991 as the centerpiece of the expansion of the resort into a multi-park, multi-hotel business model, similar to that at Walt Disney World.
Blowing Stone
The Blowing Stone is a perforated sarsen stone, located at grid reference SU324871 in a garden at the foot of Blowingstone Hill just south of the Icknield Way (B4507), at Kingston Lisle, near Uffington, in the English county of Oxfordshire.
RAF Shellingford
RAF Shellingford was a Royal Air Force station located approximately 4 miles east of the town of Faringdon in Oxfordshire. It occupied land adjacent to the A417 road, between the villages of Shellingford and Stanford-in-the-Vale. Much of the former aerodrome has now been given over to quarrying activities, where significant sand and gravel deposits continue to be extracted to this day. Some of the original technical buildings still exist, and can be seen from the road.
Uffington railway station
Uffington railway station (sometimes marked as Uffington Junction) is a former station on the Great Western Main Line. The station was about 0.75 miles northeast of the village of Uffington, a village in what was then part of Berkshire, on the west side of the road between Uffington and Baulking. In 1864 Uffington became a junction as the Faringdon Railway opened between there and the town of Faringdon. In 1886 the GWR took over the Faringdon Railway.
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