Badbury Hill

#1441 among destinations in the United Kingdom

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Badbury Hill is a hill in the civil parish of Great Coxwell near Faringdon in the English county of Oxfordshire. In 1974 it was transferred from Berkshire. ()

Coordinates: 51°39'0"N, 1°37'27"W

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

Nearby attractions include: Uffington White Horse, Trout Inn, Buscot House, Uffington Castle.

5.7 miSE
Famous hill figure and castle remains
Uffington White Horse
146 min walk • Carved into the rolling chalk hills of Oxfordshire, the Uffington White Horse is a prehistoric enigma that captivates the imagination of visitors and historians alike. This ancient hill figure, etched into the landscape over 3,000 years ago during the late Bronze Age...
3.6 miNW
Nightlife
Trout Inn, Lechlade
93 min walk • The Trout Inn is a pub next to the River Thames at Lechlade in the English county of Gloucestershire. The Grade II listed stone building consists of two two-storey structures, one late medieval and the other added in the 18th century.
1.7 miNW
Historical place, Park, History museum
Buscot House, Faringdon
45 min walk • Buscot Park is a country house at Buscot near the town of Faringdon in Oxfordshire within the historic boundaries of Berkshire. It was built in an austere neoclassical style between 1780 and 1783 for Edward Loveden Loveden. It remained in the family until sold in 1859 to Robert Tertius Campbell, an Australian.
5.7 miSE
Archaeological site, Forts and castles, Mysterious site
Uffington Castle
146 min walk • Uffington Castle is an early Iron Age univallate hillfort 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 western end.
5.4 miSE
Archaeological site, View point
Dragon Hill
139 min walk • 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.
2.8 miSW
Cemetery
Westmill Woodland Burial Ground
72 min walk • Westmill Woodland Burial Ground is a green burial ground in the Vale of White Horse on the border of Oxfordshire with Wiltshire in southern England.
2.3 miE
51°39'32"N • 1°34'17"W
Faringdon Folly Tower, Faringdon
60 min walk • Historical place, View point, Forts and castles
3.3 miNE
Bridge
Radcot Bridge
85 min walk • Radcot Bridge is a crossing of the Thames in England, south of Radcot, Oxfordshire, and north of Faringdon, Oxfordshire which is in the district of that county that was in Berkshire. It carries the A4095 road across the reach above Radcot Lock.
5.2 miS
Forts and castles
Hardwell Castle
132 min walk • Hardwell Castle or Hardwell Camp is an Iron Age valley fort in the civil parish of Compton Beauchamp in Oxfordshire.
4.2 miNE
Bridge
Old Man's Bridge
107 min walk • Old Man's Bridge is a wooden footbridge across the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England. It is situated on the reach above Rushey Lock, a short way downstream of Radcot Lock. There was formerly a weir known as Old Man's Weir, or alternatively Harper's Weir, which had a footpath across it.
2.9 miNW
Park
Buscot Lock
73 min walk • Buscot Lock is a lock on the River Thames in England, near the village of Buscot, Oxfordshire. The lock was built of stone by the Thames Navigation Commission in 1790 and is the smallest on the River Thames.