Villages in Vale of White Horse

 

 

 

The Vale of White Horse region lies between the River Thames in the north and the ancient Ridgeway road in the south, and stretches from Oxford south west to the Wiltshire border. Its name comes from the figure of a horse carved into the hillside above the village of Uffington. This is the oldest chalk figure in Britain and dates back to around 1000 BC.


Alphabetical listing of villages:

A B C D E F G H I K L M N R
 S T U W Y

The most obvious feature of much of The Vale of White Horse region is that much of it is very flat! Not so in the south however, for the Ridgeway closely follows the top of the Berkshire Downs and the towns and villages here have grown up along the spring line at the foot of the hills. The Berkshire Downs are part of the North Wessex Downs Area of Natural Beauty. To the north the flat plain of the Vale stretches to a low limestone ridge, known as the Midvale Ridge, which separates the low-lying clay areas of the Oxfordshire Vale to the north and the Vale of the White Horse to the south and forms a distinct escarpment.

North of the Midvale Ridge is the River Thames which forms the boundary between the Vale of White Horse district and West Oxfordshire to the north. The Vale's second river is the diminutive River Ock, which rises near Little Coxwell and flows into the River Thames at Abingdon collecting tributaries from spring-line villages along the base of the Downs.

The attractive Thames-side town of Abingdon is the main town of the Vale of White Horse. Other towns are the historic market towns of Faringdon in the west and Wantage in the south, both of which are equally attractive. All are full of interesting buildings and have excellent shops. The dormitory village of Grove, just to the north of Wantage, has been developed from a hamlet in the last 60 years.

Alphabetical Listing:

A
Appleford-on-Thames, Appleton, Ardington, Ashbury

B
Baulking, Bourton, Blewbury, Buckland, Buscot

C
Charney Bassett, Childrey, Chilton, Coleshill, Compton Beauchamp, Cumnor

D
Denchworth, Drayton

E
East Challow, East Hanney, East Hendred, Eaton

F
Farmoor, Fernham, Frilford, Fyfield

G
Garford, Goosey, Great Coxwell, Grove

H
Harwell, Hatford, Hinton Waldrist

I
Idstone

K
Kennington, Kingston Bagpuize, Kingston Lisle, Knighton

L
Letcombe Bassett, Letcombe Regis, Little Coxwell, Littleworth, Lockinge, Longcot, Longworth, Lyford,

M
Marcham, Milton

N
North Hinksey

R
Radley

S
Shellingford, Shippon, Shrivenham, South Hinksey, Southmoor, Sparsholt, Stanford in the Vale, Steventon, Sunningwell, Sutton Courtenay

T
Tubney

U
Uffington, Upton

W
Watchfield, West Challow, West Hendred, West Hanney, Woolstone, Wootton, Wytham