Theatres · South East England
Octagon
Octagon is a theatre in the United Kingdom.
Peter Facey — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 2 h–3 h
- Nearest railway station
- Winchester · 1.1 km
- Wheelchair accessible
About
Octagon is a working theatre in Hampshire, South-East England. The site is a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest. It sits within the Winchester parliamentary constituency. The nearest railway station is Winchester, about 1.1 km away. Postcode area SO23.
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Protected designations
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: River Test SSSI
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: River Itchen - 2000227 SSSI
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
In geometry, an octagon (from Ancient Greek ὀκτάγωνον (oktágōnon) 'eight angles') is an eight-sided polygon or 8-gon. A regular octagon has Schläfli symbol {8} and can also be constructed as a quasiregular truncated square, t{4}, which alternates two types of edges. A truncated octagon, t{8} is a hexadecagon, {16}. A 3D analog of the octagon can be the rhombicuboctahedron with the triangular faces on it like the replaced edges, if one considers the octagon to be a truncated square.
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Background
Architecture
A regular octagon at a given circumcircle may be constructed as follows: A regular octagon can be constructed using a straightedge and a compass, as 8 = 2<sup>3</sup>, a power of two: The regular octagon can be constructed with meccano bars. Twelve bars of size 4, three bars of size 5 and two bars of size 6 are required. Each side of a regular octagon subtends half a right angle at the centre of the circle which connects its vertices. Its area can thus be computed as the sum of eight isosceles triangles, leading to the result: for an octagon of side a.
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 51.0588, -1.3130
- County
- Hampshire
- District
- Winchester
- Parish
- Winchester, unparished area
- Postcode
- SO23 9LT
- Parliamentary constituency
- Winchester
- Nearest railway station
- Winchester — 1.1 km
Sources
- osm: w532819311 (ODbL)
- wikipedia: Octagon (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Octagon?
- Octagon is in Hampshire, South-East England, United Kingdom (postcode SO23 9LT), in the parish of Winchester, unparished area.
- Is Octagon a protected site?
- Yes — Octagon is part of the River Test SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest and the River Itchen - 2000227 SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest.
- How do I get to Octagon?
- The nearest railway station is Winchester, about 1.1 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode SO23 9LT.