Mountains & hills · South East England
Beacon Hill
Beacon Hill — Named summit at 201 m.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 3 h–8 h
- Best time of year
- Late spring – early autumn (May–Oct)
- Free entry
- Dog-friendly
About
Beacon Hill is a named summit in the United Kingdom. Wikidata describes it as: "Named summit at 201 m.". Coordinates: 50.9984°, -1.1427°.
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Protected designations
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: Beacon Hill, Warnford SSSI
- National Nature Reserve: BEACON HILL
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
There are two hills in Hampshire called Beacon Hill; the other one is near Burghclere. Beacon Hill, Warnford is a 46.4-hectare (115-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Warnford in Hampshire. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, and an area of 40.1 hectares (99 acres) is a national nature reserve. There is a round barrow cemetery dating to the Late Neolithic or Bronze Age on the hill, and this is a scheduled monument.
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Background
Architecture
The structural picture is similar to that at Winchester 15 km to the west, with an east–west trending anticline in the upper chalk (the Winchester-East Meon Anticline) cut through by a south-flowing river to expose an inlier of middle and lower chalk. As with the Itchen, the upper Meon flows westwards along the fold trend, before swinging south to cut through the anticline. Beacon Hill at 201 m to the west of the Meon and Old Winchester Hill at 212 m to the east are remnants of the southward-dipping chalk on the southern side of the anticline. The anticline is somewhat domed, with the result that Old Winchester Hill is capped by older chalk than Beacon Hill despite being rather higher,…
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- Coordinates
- 50.9984, -1.1427
- County
- Hampshire
- District
- Winchester
- Parish
- Warnford
- Postcode
- SO32 3LG
- Parliamentary constituency
- Winchester
Sources
- osm: n1037177600 (ODbL)
- wikipedia: Beacon Hill, Warnford (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: BeaconHillEcombe1.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Beacon Hill?
- Beacon Hill is in Hampshire, South-East England, United Kingdom (postcode SO32 3LG), in the parish of Warnford.
- Is Beacon Hill a protected site?
- Yes — Beacon Hill is part of the Beacon Hill, Warnford SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest and the BEACON HILL National Nature Reserve.
- Is Beacon Hill free to visit?
- Yes, Beacon Hill is free to enter.
- How do I get to Beacon Hill?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode SO32 3LG. It sits within the Winchester parliamentary constituency.