Tan Hill (grid reference SU080640) is a hill which lies just to the north of the village of Allington in the parish of All Cannings, Wiltshire, England. The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ... The panoramic view from Connors Hill, near Swifts Creek, Victoria A hill is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain, in a limited area. ... There are three different places in the English county of Wiltshire with the name Allington: Allington, near Chippenham Allington, near Devizes Allington, near Salisbury This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... All Cannings is a village and civil parish in the Vale of Pewsey in the English county of Wiltshire. ... Wiltshire (abbreviated Wilts) is a large southern English county. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ...

Its summit is 294 metres (965 ft) above sea level and is the second highest point of the North Wessex Downs AONB hill range (the adjacent Milk Hill is 295 m high) and of Wiltshire. It is also the second highest point between Bristol and London. The North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) is located in the English counties of Berkshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire. ... Milk Hill, located near Alton Priors is the highest peak in the county of Wiltshire, England and also the highest peak along a 32 mile ridge extending all the way from the South Downs, across the southern Chilterns and into Wiltshire. ... Wiltshire (abbreviated Wilts) is a large southern English county. ... This article is about the English city. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

To the south, its adjoins Clifford's Hill.

Along the north side of Tan Hill runs a section of The Wansdyke, an earth rampart which runs east to west across much of southern England. Wansdyke (from Wodens Dyke) is an early medieval defensive linear earthwork in the West Country of England, consisting of a ditch and a running embankment from the spoil. ...

Tan Hill formerly had a white horse. Numerous chalk figures have been carved into hillsides in the United Kingdom, including :- Alton Barnes white horse, Wiltshire (1812) Broad Town white horse, Wiltshire (1864) Cerne Abbas giant, Dorset (popularly believed to be ancient, but recently dated to c. ...

In April 2003, a Dotterel was present on the summit of Tan Hill. This bird species does not usually migrate through Britain until May. Binomial name Charadrius morinellus Linnaeus, 1758 The Eurasian Dotterel (Charadrius morinellus), or in Europe just Dotterel, is a small wader in the plover family of birds. ...

Coordinates: 51.37500° N 1.88645° W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...