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White Shute

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White Shute is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Berkshire, covering 0.02 km². It is one of 66 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in the county. It is one of the smaller SSSIs in the county. It lies within the North Wessex Downs National Landscape.

The closest station is Hungerford, about 8.8 km to the south. Ashdown Park and Kennet and Lambourn Floodplain are among the SSSIs within 6.8 km.

More places to visit near White Shute

Photo of the North Wessex Downs, a National Landscape in England.Highlight

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

Photo of The Pheasant, a gastropub near Shefford Woodlands in the North Wessex Downs, Berkshire, south east England.Highlight

The Pheasant

Gastropub · With rooms near Shefford Woodlands

North Wessex Downs coaching inn with rooms, an olive best country pub.

5 km SE

Photo of Aldbourne, a village in the North Wessex Downs, Wiltshire, south west England.

Aldbourne

Village

Downland village in the North Wessex Downs around a green and pond, with St Michael's church and a long bell-founding history.

6.7 km W · Wiltshire

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.

7.5 km N · spans 5 counties

Photo of the Kennet & Avon Canal, an 87-mile canal running from Reading to Bristol, England.Highlight

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.

8.4 km S · spans 5 counties

Photo of Wayland's Smithy, a chambered tomb near Uffington in the North Wessex Downs, Oxfordshire, south east England.Highlight

Wayland's Smithy

Chambered tomb near Uffington

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

9.6 km NW