Whitehorse Hill

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Whitehorse Hill tops out at 261 m in Oxfordshire. It is the highest point of Oxfordshire. It stands inside the North Wessex Downs National Landscape.

The nearest other hill is Liddington Hill, 11.3 km to the south-west. For arrivals by rail, Swindon Station is 15.1 km to the west.

More places to visit near Whitehorse Hill

Rolling chalk downland above the Vale of the White Horse, threaded by one of Britain's oldest roads

Britain's oldest chalk hill figure, a 110-metre stylised horse cut into the downs above the Vale of White Horse.

0.2 km N

Flat-topped chalk knoll below the White Horse, its bare crown linked in legend to St George slaying the dragon.

0.4 km N

Neolithic chambered long barrow ringed by beech trees on the Ridgeway, named in legend for a Saxon smith-god.

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A perforated sarsen boulder in a Kingston Lisle garden that can be sounded like a horn, tied to legends of King Alfred.

2.4 km E

A 100-foot brick-and-stone tower in a hilltop wood, England's last great folly, built for Lord Berners in 1935.

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