Inkpen Common

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Inkpen Common is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Berkshire, covering 0.13 km². It is one of 66 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in the county. It lies within the North Wessex Downs National Landscape.

For more of the same, Inkpen and Walbury Hills and West Woodhay Down are close by. The closest station is Kintbury, about 3 km 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

Wayfarer's Walk

Long-distance path

Combe Gibbet to Emsworth harbour across Watership Down and the Hampshire chalk — high downland one end, saltmarsh the other.

2.3 km SW · Hampshire & Berkshire

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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.

2.4 km SW

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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.

3 km N · spans 5 counties