Beacon Hill, South Downs National Park

Name: Beacon Hill
Address: South Downs National Park, United Kingdom

#8 among attractions in South Downs National Park

Nature, Natural attraction, Hill

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Beacon Hill, Warnford is a 46.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Warnford in Hampshire. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, and an area of 40.1 hectares is a national nature reserve. There is a round barrow cemetery dating to the Late Neolithic or Bronze Age on the hill, and this is a scheduled monument. ()

Coordinates: 50°59'54"N, 1°8'34"W

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Beacon Hill – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Meon Valley Railway Line, Itchen Way, Bishop's Waltham Palace, Riversdown English Immersions.

2.6 miE
Hiking, Hiking trail
Meon Valley Railway Line, South Downs National Park
66 min walk • The Meon Valley Railway was a cross-country railway in Hampshire, England, that ran for 22+1⁄4 miles between Alton and Fareham, closely following the course of the River Meon.
3.3 miN
Hiking, Hiking trail
Itchen Way, South Downs National Park
84 min walk • The Itchen Way is a 31.80-mile long-distance footpath following the River Itchen in Hampshire, England, from its source near Hinton Ampner House to its mouth at Woolston. The walk finishes at Sholing railway station.
4.4 miSW
Historical place, Ruins, Palace
Bishop's Waltham Palace, Bishop's Waltham
114 min walk • Bishop's Waltham Palace is a moated Bishop's Palace ruin in Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire, England.
1.4 miN
51°1'8"N • 1°8'34"W
Riversdown English Immersions, South Downs National Park
36 min walk • Golf
2.6 miSE
Forts and castles
Old Winchester Hill, South Downs National Park
68 min walk • Old Winchester Hill is a 66.2-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hampshire. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I, and a national nature reserve. Part of it is a scheduled monument.
4.8 miE
Church, Gothic architecture
All Saints Church, South Downs National Park
124 min walk • All Saints Church is an Anglican parish church in the village of East Meon, Hampshire, England. It is a Grade I listed building and the oldest building in the village, lying so tight to a hill to the north of the village – part of the South Downs – that there was no room for a north aisle to be built.
4.3 miSW
Park
The Moors, Bishop's Waltham
109 min walk • The Moors, Bishop's Waltham is a 28-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Bishop's Waltham in Hampshire. It is a Nature Conservation Review and an area of 14.5 hectares is a Local Nature Reserve, which is owned and managed by Hampshire County Council.
4.4 miSW
Park
Claylands, Bishop's Waltham
111 min walk • Claylands is a 5.8-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Bishop's Waltham in Hampshire. It is owned by Hampshire County Council and managed by Hampshire Countryside Service. This former clay working has woodland, ponds, meadows and scrub. The ponds have populations of great crested newts.
3.6 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Henwood Down, South Downs National Park
93 min walk • Henwood Down is one of the highest points in the county of Hampshire, England, and in the South Downs, reaching a height of 201 metres above sea level. Its prominence of 64 metres qualifies it as a Tump.
4.1 miSW
Church
Church of Saint Barnabas, Swanmore
105 min walk • The Church of St Barnabas is the Church of England parish church of Swanmore near Southampton in Hampshire, England. It was constructed in 1844 and is a grade II listed building. The church is under the ecclesiastic jurisdiction of the Diocese of Portsmouth and the Deanery of Bishop's Waltham.
3.2 miN
Museum, Reportedly haunted, History museum
Hinton Ampner, South Downs National Park
83 min walk • Hinton Ampner is a village and country house estate with gardens within the civil parish of Bramdean and Hinton Ampner, near Alresford, Hampshire, England. The village and house are 8 miles due east of Winchester.