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Photo of Shirburn Hill, a Site of Special Scientific Interest near Watlington in the Chilterns, Oxfordshire, south east England.

© Mark Percy / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Shirburn Hill

Open accessin a National Nature Reserve open to the public

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Shirburn Hill is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Oxfordshire, covering 0.64 km². It is one of 105 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in the county. It is among the largest in the county. It lies inside the Chilterns National Landscape.

For arrivals by rail, Saunderton Station is about 9.5 km to the east. For more of the same, Wormsley Chalk Banks and Aston Rowant Woods are close by.

More places to visit near Shirburn Hill

Photo of the Chilterns, a National Landscape in England.Highlight

Chilterns

You’re inside itNational Landscape near The Lee

Beech woods and chalk downland within easy reach of London, laced with old ridge paths and grazing red kites

Photo along the Ridgeway, an 86-mile National Trail running from Avebury to Ivinghoe, England.

The Ridgeway

National Trail

Britain's oldest road — a prehistoric chalk track past Avebury, hillforts and white horses.

0.5 km NW · spans 5 counties

Photo along the Chiltern Way, a 177-mile long-distance path in England.

Chiltern Way

Long-distance path

The Chiltern Society's grand loop through four counties of beechwood and chalk, grown from a Millennium project into 177 miles.

2.9 km SE · spans 5 counties

Photo of Cobstone Windmill, a windmill near Turville in the Chilterns, Buckinghamshire, south east England.Highlight

Cobstone Windmill

Windmill near Turville

White smock mill on the hill above Turville, familiar as the home of Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

6.6 km SE

Photo of Turville, a village in the Chilterns, Buckinghamshire, south east England.Highlight

Turville

Village

Brick-and-flint hamlet in a steep Chilterns bottom, a hilltop windmill above it, much filmed for The Vicar of Dibley and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

6.6 km SE · Buckinghamshire

Photo of Stonor Park, a Grade II* registered house & garden near Turville in the Chilterns, Oxfordshire, south east England.Highlight

Stonor Park

House & garden near Turville

Held by one Catholic family for 800 years, where Edmund Campion secretly printed in 1581.

6.8 km S