Hill forts · South East England
Uffington Castle
Uffington Castle — hillfort in Oxfordshire, England, UK.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
- Free entry
- Family-friendly
- Dog-friendly
- Limited wheelchair access
About
Uffington Castle is a hill fort in the United Kingdom. Heritage designation: scheduled monument. Owned by English Heritage. Managed by English Heritage. Wikidata describes it as: "hillfort in Oxfordshire, England, UK". Coordinates: 51.5750°, -1.5693°.
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Protected designations
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: Whitehorse Hill SSSI
- Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: Cotswolds
- Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: North Wessex Downs
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
Uffington Castle is an early Iron Age (with underlying Bronze Age) univallate hillfort in Oxfordshire, England. It covers about 3.2 ha (7.9 acres) and is surrounded by two earth banks separated by a ditch with an entrance in the western end. A second entrance in the eastern end was apparently blocked up a few centuries after it was built. The original defensive ditch was V-shaped with a small box rampart in front and a larger one behind it. Timber posts stood on the ramparts. Later the ditch was deepened and the extra material dumped on top of the ramparts to increase their size. A parapet wall of sarsen stones lined the top of the innermost rampart. It is very close to the Uffington White Horse on White Horse Hill.
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Background
Description
An ancient track passes by the northern entrance to the hillfort; it is known as The Ridgeway. It links to the Icknield Way at the Goring Gap, and passes close to Avebury before heading south across Salisbury Plain. It also passes very close to a Neolithic chambered long barrow, Waylands Smithy, about a mile to the west.
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 51.5750, -1.5693
- County
- Oxfordshire
- District
- Vale of White Horse
- Parish
- Woolstone
- Postcode
- SN7 7ZB
- Parliamentary constituency
- Didcot and Wantage
- Official site
- www.english-heritage.org.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q2473790 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Uffington Castle (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Uffington Castle - geograph.org.uk - 292746.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Uffington Castle?
- Uffington Castle is in Oxfordshire, South-East England, United Kingdom (postcode SN7 7ZB), in the parish of Woolstone.
- Who runs Uffington Castle?
- Uffington Castle is operated by English Heritage.
- Is Uffington Castle a listed building?
- Uffington Castle is officially recognised as scheduled monument listed.
- Is Uffington Castle a protected site?
- Yes — Uffington Castle is part of the Whitehorse Hill SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest and the Cotswolds National Landscape (AONB).
- Is Uffington Castle free to visit?
- Yes, Uffington Castle is free to enter.
- How do I get to Uffington Castle?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode SN7 7ZB. It sits within the Didcot and Wantage parliamentary constituency.