Combe Wood and Linkenholt Hanging

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Combe Wood and Linkenholt Hanging is one of 66 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Berkshire. It is among the largest in the county. The surrounding countryside is part of the North Wessex Downs National Landscape.

Inkpen and Walbury Hills and West Woodhay Down are among the SSSIs within 3.6 km. Kintbury Station is about 7.5 km away to the north.

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North Wessex Downs

You’re inside itNational Landscape near Hungerford

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

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Combe Gibbet

Landmark near Kintbury

Replica double gallows on a Neolithic long barrow high on Inkpen ridge, raised in 1676 and never used again after one hanging.

2.8 km N

Hurstbourne Tarrant

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Bourne-valley thatch; Cobbett's 'Uphusband'.

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River Kennet

River

A Berkshire chalk river from the Marlborough Downs to the Thames at Reading, shadowed most of the way by the Kennet & Avon Canal.

7.8 km N · Berkshire & Wiltshire

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Kennet & Avon Canal

Canal

The broad-beam crossing of southern England — river, canal and river again from Bristol's Avon to the Thames at Reading, over the chalk by the Caen Hill flight.

7.9 km N · spans 5 counties