Letcombe Bassett
Letcombe Bassett is a village and civil parish about 2 miles (3 km) southwest of the market town of Wantage in the Vale of White Horse.
Letcombe Bassett is a village and civil parish about 2 miles (3 km) southwest of the market town of Wantage in the Vale of White Horse. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred the Vale of White Horse to Oxfordshire. The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 148. The village is a spring line settlement, being the source of Letcombe Brook at the foot of the Berkshire Downs escarpment. Hackpen, Warren & Gramp's Hill Downs Site of Special Scientific Interest is in the parish.
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Worth seeing in and around Letcombe Bassett
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Wantage
Wantage is a historic market town and civil parish at the foot of the Berkshire Downs in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England. Historically in Berkshire, it has been administered as part of Oxfordshire since 1974.
3.8 km · market town and civil parish in Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England · Wikipedia - 02Church of St Peter and St Paul, Wantage
The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a Church of England parish church in Wantage, Oxfordshire. The church is a grade-I listed building.
3.7 km · church in Wantage, England · Wikipedia - 03Statue of Alfred the Great
The statue of Alfred the Great, in the Wantage market place, was sculpted by Count Gleichen, a relative of Queen Victoria's, and unveiled on 14 July 1877 by the Prince and Princess of Wales. It was presented to the town by Robert Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage.
3.8 km · statue in Wantage, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Old Town Hall, Wantage
The Old Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Place in Wantage, Oxfordshire, England. The building, which was the headquarters of Wantage Urban District Council, was converted into apartments in 2018.
3.8 km · municipal Building in England · Wikipedia - 05Highlands Farm Pit
Highlands Farm Pit is a 0.6-hectare former gravel pit and now a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.
1.8 km · geological conservation site · Wikipedia - 06Alfredian Park
Alfredian Park is a football ground in Wantage, Oxfordshire, England, and the home of Wantage Town Football Club of the Hellenic League Division One. It has a capacity of about 1,500.
3.1 km · football ground in Wantage · Wikipedia - 07Chain Hill
Chain Hill is one of the hills of the Berkshire Downs, located in the civil parish of Wantage in the English county of Oxfordshire. In 1974 it was transferred from Berkshire.
3.8 km · hill in Wantage, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Hackpen, Warren & Gramp's Hill Downs
Hackpen, Warren & Gramp's Hill Downs is a 71.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Letcombe Bassett in Oxfordshire.
1.9 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 09Vale and Downland Museum
The Vale and Downland Museum is a local history museum in the market town of Wantage, Oxfordshire, England. The Vale and Downland Museum Trust was formed in 1972.
3.7 km · museum of local culture and history in Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 10Reed Hill, Oxfordshire
Reed Hill is a 14-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Stonesfield in Oxfordshire. It partly overlaps Stonesfield Slate Mines SSSI. This sheltered dry valley has unimproved limestone grassland, secondary woodland and scrub.
2.5 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
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Getting to Letcombe Bassett
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 70 km · London Luton (LTN), 83 km · Bristol (BRS), 89 km
- London → Letcombe Bassett93 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £11–14
- Luton, Luton → Letcombe Bassett80 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · £11–15
- Bristol → Letcombe Bassett79 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £8–11
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No local-transport research exists yet for Letcombe Bassett
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Letcombe Bassett. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Letcombe Bassett
Letcombe Bassett is 36 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Sparsholtvillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England3.7 km