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Vale of White Horse

The Vale of White Horse is a local government district of Oxfordshire in England.

Vale of White Horse
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The place

The Vale of White Horse is a local government district of Oxfordshire in England. It was historically part of Berkshire. It is crossed by the Ridgeway National Trail in its far south, across the North Wessex Downs AONB at the junction of four counties. The northern boundary is defined by the River Thames. The name refers to Uffington White Horse, a prehistoric hill figure.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Vale of White Horse

One place 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.

  1. 01
    Reed 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.

    3.9 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia

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Getting to Vale of White Horse

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 73 km · London Luton (LTN), 84 km · Bristol (BRS), 88 km
  • London → Vale of White Horse
    95 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · £11–14
  • Luton, Luton → Vale of White Horse
    78 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · £11–14
  • Bristol → Vale of White Horse
    80 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £9–11
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Vale of White Horse

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 Vale of White Horse. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    102 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    225 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    477 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    503 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    539 km

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Around it

Next door to Vale of White Horse

Vale of White Horse is 40 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Stanford in the Valevillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England3.7 km
  • Kingston Lislevillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England2.7 km
  • Baulkingvillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England3.2 km
  • Gooseyvillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England2.6 km
  • West Challowvillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England2.1 km
  • Childreyvillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England3.3 km