Uffington in England
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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.

Located at 51.5775, -1.56667 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Archaeological sites in Berkshire, Archaeological sites in Oxfordshire, Bronze Age sites in England, White horses in England, History of Berkshire, History of Oxfordshire, National Trust properties in Oxfordshire, Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Oxfordshire, Vale of White Horse, Visitor attractions in Oxfordshire, Bronze Age art, Berkshire folklore, Oxfordshire folklore

Uffington Castle

Uffington Castle is an early Iron Age hill fort in Oxfordshire, England. It covers about 32,000 square metres and is surrounded by two earth banks separated by a ditch with an entrance in the eastern end. A second entrance in the western end was apparently blocked up a few centuries after it was built. The original defensive ditch was V-shaped with a small box rampart in front and a larger one behind it. Timber posts stood on the ramparts.

Located at 51.5748, -1.56994 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Bronze Age sites in England, Buildings and structures in Oxfordshire, English Heritage sites in Oxfordshire, Hill forts in Berkshire, Vale of White Horse, Visitor attractions in Oxfordshire, Archaeological sites in Oxfordshire

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.

Located at 51.5793, -1.56846 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Hills of Oxfordshire, History of Berkshire, Iron Age sites in England, National Trust properties in Oxfordshire, Vale of White Horse, Archaeological sites in Oxfordshire, Zoomorphic geographic features

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.

Located at 51.575, -1.57 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Hills of Berkshire, Hills of Oxfordshire, Hills of Wiltshire

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.

Located at 51.5818, -1.5338 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Anglo-Saxon archaeology, History of Berkshire, Stone Age sites in England, Stones, Vale of White Horse, Visitor attractions in Oxfordshire, Archaeological sites in Oxfordshire

Hardwell Castle

Hardwell Castle or Hardwell Camp is classed as an Iron Age valley fort, although, like nearby Cherbury Camp, it is not clearly in a strategic or easily defended position. It lies halfway down the scarp slope of the White Horse Hills and is tucked away in a curve, invisible from most angles. This particular positioning suggests its builders had a specialist purpose in mind, although exactly what that may have been remains a mystery. It is 'multi-vallate', like Cherbury Camp.

Located at 51.5784, -1.58723 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Hill forts in Berkshire, Buildings and structures in Oxfordshire, Visitor attractions in 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.

Located at 51.6392, -1.52694 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Royal Air Force stations in Oxfordshire

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.

Located at 51.6121, -1.5507 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Disused railway stations in Oxfordshire, Great Western Main Line, Former Great Western Railway stations, Railway stations opened in 1864, Railway stations closed in 1964, Beeching closures in England