Vale of White Horse District
Shown within Oxfordshire
Geography
Status:	District
Region:	South East England
Shire county:	Oxfordshire
Historic county:	Berkshire
Area: - Total	Ranked 83rd 578.63 km²
Admin. HQ:	Abingdon
ONS code:	38UE
Demographics
Population: - Total (2005 est.) - Density	Ranked 172nd 117,000 202 / km²
Ethnicity:	97.6% White
Politics
Vale of White Horse District Council http://www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Liberal Democrat
MPs:	Evan Harris, Ed Vaizey

The Vale of White Horse is a local government district of Oxfordshire in England. The main town is Abingdon, other places include Faringdon and Wantage. There are 68 parishes within the district. Image File history File links a district of Oxfordshire File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from the Latinised form Oxonia) is a county in the South East of England, bordering on Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Warwickshire. ... Non-metropolitan districts or commonly Shire districts are a type of local government district in England. ... The region, also known as Government Office Region, is currently the highest tier of local government subnational entity of England in the United Kingdom. ... South East England is one of the nine official regions of England. ... A shire county or non-metropolitan county in England, is a county level entity which is not a metropolitan county. ... Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from the Latinised form Oxonia) is a county in the South East of England, bordering on Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Warwickshire. ... The historic counties of England are ancient subdivisions of England. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Area is the measure of how much exposed area any two dimensional object has. ... This is a list of districts of England ordered by area. ... Square kilometre (U.S. spelling: square kilometer), symbol km², is a decimal multiple of SI unit of surface area square metre, one of the SI derived units. ... Abingdon is a market town in Oxfordshire, England and is one of the towns which claim to be Britains oldest continuously occupied town. ... The Office for National Statistics coding system is a hierarchical code used in the United Kingdom for tabulating census and other statistical data. ... In physics, density is mass m per unit volume V. For the common case of a homogeneous substance, it is expressed as: where, in SI units: ρ (rho) is the density of the substance, measured in kg·m-3 m is the mass of the substance, measured in kg V is... The figures are mid-year estimates for 2005 from the Office for National Statistics [1]. See also: List of English cities by population - List of English counties by population - List of Ceremonial counties of England by Population - List of English districts by area - List of English districts by ethnic diversity... The United Kingdom is divided into four parts, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... This is a list of MPs elected in the UK general election, 2005 to the House of Commons for the Fifty-Fourth Parliament of the United Kingdom at the United Kingdom general election, 2005, arranged by constituency. ... Evan Harris Dr Evan Leslie Harris MP (born 21 October 1965) is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom. ... The Honourable Edward Henry Butler Vaizey (born June 5, 1968) is a conservative commentator and columnist and has been selected as a Conservative candidate at the next UK general election. ... Non-metropolitan districts or commonly Shire districts are a type of local government district in England. ... Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from the Latinised form Oxonia) is a county in the South East of England, bordering on Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Warwickshire. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto)1 Unified  -  by Athelstan 927 AD  Area  -  Total... Abingdon Town Councils coat of arms. ... The Folly, from the A420 Faringdon market place All Saints church, Faringdon Faringdon is a picturesque market town in the Vale of White Horse, near the Thames Valley in southern England, United Kingdom. ... Wantage is a small town in the Thames Valley, southern England. ... This is a list of civil parishes in the English ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Oxfordshire, England. ...

It is a geographically distinct region, lying between the Berkshire Downs and the River Thames, named after the prehistoric Uffington White Horse. The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, from the Municipal Borough of Abingdon, Wantage Urban District, Abingdon Rural District, Faringdon Rural District and part of the Wantage Rural District of Berkshire. The southern border of the district roughly approximates the Ridgeway Path. The area is often referred to as the ‘Vale of the White Horse’. The North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) is located in the English counties of Berkshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire. ... The Thames is a river flowing through southern England, and one of the major waterways in England. ... As seen from an altitude of 2000 feet, from the cockpit of a glider The Uffington White Horse is a highly stylised hillfigure, 374 feet (110m) long, cut out of the turf on the upper slopes of Uffington Castle, an Iron Age hill fort near The Ridgeway, in southern England. ... is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... A blonde haired, very skilled worker with a 70s look. ... The Local Government Act 1972 (1972 c. ... , Abingdon (traditionally known as Abingdon-on-Thames) is a market town in Oxfordshire in Southern England. ... , Wantage is a town and civil parish in the Vale of the White Horse, near the Thames Valley, in the English county of Oxfordshire (formerly in Berkshire), and approximately 10 miles south-southwest of Oxford. ... Abingdon was a rural district in the administrative county of Berkshire from 1894 to 1974. ... Wantage was a rural district of Berkshire, England from 1894 to 1974. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... The Ridgeway near Harwell For other meanings see Ridgeway. ...

Geography

It is the valley of the Ock, a stream which joins the Thames from the West at Abingdon. The Vale is almost flat and well-wooded; its green meadows and foliage contrasting richly with the bald summits of the White Horse Hills, which flank it on the south. The numerous elm trees, that once were a major feature of the Vale, were lost to Dutch Elm Disease. To the North, a low ridge separates it from the upper Thames Valley, holding back the soft Jurassic sedimentary deposits (Greensand, Gault and Kimmeridge Clay) behind a hard corallian limestone escarpment ridge, in what is technically a hanging valley; but local usage sometimes extends the vale to cover all the ground between the Cotswolds (on the north) and the White Horse Hills. According to the geographical definition, however, the Vale is from two to five miles wide, and the distance by road from Abingdon to Shrivenham at its head is 18 miles. The River Ock heads towards Abingdon, from the bridge at Charney Bassett The River Ock is a small English river or brook. ... As seen from an altitude of 2000 feet, from the cockpit of a glider The Uffington White Horse is a highly stylised hillfigure, 374 feet (110m) long, cut out of the turf on the upper slopes of Uffington Castle, an Iron Age hill fort near The Ridgeway, in southern England. ... Species See Elm species, varieties, cultivars and hybrids Elms are deciduous and semi-deciduous trees making up the genus Ulmus, family Ulmaceae, found throughout the Northern Hemisphere from Siberia to Indonesia, Mexico to Japan. ... Branch death, or Flagging, at multiple locations in the crown of a diseased elm. ... The Thames Valley is generally the region that drains into the River Thames, England, but is used in a more specific term by the government. ... The Jurassic Period is a major unit of the geologic timescale that extends from about 199. ... Two types of sedimentary rock: limey shale overlaid by limestone. ... Greensand is an olive-green coloured sandstone rock which found in narrow bands, particularly associated with bands of chalk and clay in northern and western Europe. ... The Gault Clay is a formation of stiff blue clay deposited in a calm, fairly deep water marine environment during the Lower Cretaceous Period (Upper and Middle Albian). ... The Kimmeridge Clay Formation is, arguably, the most economically important unit of rocks in the whole of Europe, being the major source rock for oil fields in the North Sea hydrocarbon province. ... Corallian Limestone is a coralliferous sedimentary rock, laid down in Jurassic times. ... In geology, an escarpment is a transition zone between different physiogeographic provinces that involves an elevation differential, often involving high cliffs. ... Bridal Veil Falls in Yosemite National Park flowing from a hanging valley. ... The Cotswolds is the name given to a range of hills in central England, sometimes called the Heart of England, a hilly area reaching over 300 m or 1000 feet. ... Shrivenham is a large village and civil parish in the English county of Oxfordshire (though formerly in Berkshire), adjacent to the border with Wiltshire. ...

Wantage is the only town in the heart of the Vale (although Faringdon, on the northwestern rim, is also a "Vale" town), lying in a sheltered hollow at the foot of the hills, along which, moreover, villages are more numerous than elsewhere in the vale. There are numerous springs emanating from the chalk hills, which allowed these settlements to thrive in former times. The Needles,situated on the Isle Of Wight, are part of the extensive Southern England Chalk Formation. ...

Sites of interest

Towards the West, above Uffington, the hills reach a culminating point of 261 m (856 ft) in White Horse Hill. In its northern flank, just below the summit, a gigantic figure of a horse is cut, the turf being removed to show the white chalky soil beneath. This figure gives name to the hill, the range and the vale. It is 114 m (374 ft) long and highly stylised, the neck, body and tail varying little in width. Uffington is a village in Oxfordshire, close to one of the United Kingdoms best-known archaeological sites, the Uffington White Horse. ...

A panoramic view into the Vale; the White Horse is on the right and Dragon Hill centre right

The origin of the figure is unknown. Tradition asserted it to be the monument of a victory over the Danes by King Alfred, who was born at Wantage, but the site of the Battle of Ashdown (871 CE), has been variously located. Moreover, the figure has been dated to the Bronze Age, so it pre-dates the battle by many centuries. Many ancient remains occur in the vicinity of the Horse. Download high resolution version (2000x364, 66 KB)a partial panoramic view of Dragon Hill, Uffington, 2004-04-24. ... Download high resolution version (2000x364, 66 KB)a partial panoramic view of Dragon Hill, Uffington, 2004-04-24. ... Alfred (also Ælfred from the Old English: Ælfrēd //) (c. ... The Battle of Ashdown, in Berkshire, took place on the 8th January 871. ... “Era Vulgaris” redirects here. ... The Bronze Age is a period in a civilizations development when the most advanced metalworking has developed the techniques of smelting copper from natural outcroppings and alloys it to cast bronze. ...

Vale scene, with White Horse Hill on the horizon

On the summit of the hill there is an extensive and well preserved circular camp, apparently used by the Romans but of much earlier origin. It is an Iron Age hill fort. It is named Uffington Castle from the village in the vale below. Within a short distance are Hardwell Castle, a near-square work and, on the southern slope of the hills near Ashdown House, a small camp traditionally called Alfred's Castle. Further to the West, there is Liddington Castle. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 215 pixelsFull resolution (2384 × 640 pixel, file size: 899 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Photographer: User:Ballista I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 215 pixelsFull resolution (2384 × 640 pixel, file size: 899 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Photographer: User:Ballista I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the... A hill fort is a fortified refuge or defended settlement, located to exploit a rise in elevation for military advantage. ... Uffington Castle is all that remains of an early iron Age hill fort in Oxfordshire, England. ... Hardwell Castle or Hardwell Camp is classed as an Iron Age valley fort, although, like nearby Cherbury Camp, it is not clearly in a strategic or easily defended position. ... Ashdown House is a graduate dormitory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... Alfreds Castle is a small Iron Age hill fort, situated at grid reference SU277822, behind Ashdown Park in the civil parish of Ashbury in Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire). ... Liddington Castle is a late Bronze Age and early Iron Age hill fort in the English county of Wiltshire. ...

The Uffington White Horse, as seen from an altitude of about 600 m (2000 ft), from the cockpit of a glider

A smooth, steep gully on the north flank of White Horse Hill is called the Manger, and to the west of it rises a bald mound named Dragon Hill, the traditional scene of St George's victory over the dragon, the blood of which made the ground bare of grass for ever. But the name may derive from Celtic Pendragon ("dragon's head"), which was a title for a king, and may point to an early place of burial. ImageMetadata File history File links White_horse_from_air. ... ImageMetadata File history File links White_horse_from_air. ... As seen from an altitude of 2000 feet, from the cockpit of a glider The Uffington White Horse is a highly stylised hillfigure, 374 feet (110m) long, cut out of the turf on the upper slopes of Uffington Castle, an Iron Age hill fort near The Ridgeway, in southern England. ... Gliders or Sailplanes are heavier-than-air aircraft primarily intended for unpowered flight. ... Dragon Hill is a small hillock immediately below the Uffington White Horse on the border of the civil parishes of Uffington and Woolstone in the English county of Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire). ... For alternate uses, see Saint George (disambiguation) Saint George on horseback rides alongside a wounded dragon being led by a princess, late 19th century engraving. ... Saint George versus the dragon St. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Dragon. ... This article is about the European people. ...

To the West of White Horse Hill lies a long barrow called Wayland's Smithy, said to be the home of a smith who was never seen, but who shod the horses of travellers if they were left at the place with payment. The legend is elaborated, and the smith appears as a character, in Sir Walter Scott's novel Kenilworth, and also in Rudyard Kipling's Puck of Pook Hill.. A long barrow is a prehistoric monument dating to the Neolithic period. ... Waylands Smithy is a Neolithic long barrow and chamber tomb site located near the Uffington White Horse and Uffington Castle in the English county of Oxfordshire. ... Wayland is the name of a mythical character and of some places in the United States of America: Weyland, the smith. ... For the first Premier of Saskatchewan see Thomas Walter Scott Sir Walter Scott (August 14, 1771 - September 21, 1832) was a prolific Scottish historical novelist and poet popular throughout Europe. ... Kenilworth is a romance novel written by Walter Scott. ... This article is about the British author. ...

The White Horse has been carefully cleared of vegetation from time to time. The figure has remained clear of turf throughout its long existence, except for being covered as a precaution during the Second World War. The cleaning process, known as the Scouring of the White Horse, was formerly made the occasion of a festival. Sports of all kinds were held, and keen rivalry was maintained, not only between the inhabitants of the local villages, but between local champions and those from distant parts of England. The first of such festivals known took place in 1755 and they died out only subsequently to 1857. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...

A grassy track represents the Ridgeway, claimed at the oldest road in Europe, perhaps five thousand years old. It travels along the crest of the hills, far above what would then have been marshy lowlands or dangerous forests, continuing Icknield Street, from the Chilterns to the River Thames. The Ridgeway near Harwell For other meanings see Ridgeway. ... Icknield Street or Ryknild Street is a Roman road in Britain that runs from Bourton on the Water in Gloucestershire where it connected to the Fosse Way, to Rotherham in South Yorkshire, it went via Alcester, Redditch, the area now covered by Birmingham (where a large fort was located), Lichfield... The Chiltern Hills are a chalk escarpment that stretches in a south_west to north_east diagonal across several counties of southern England, but is most prominent in Buckinghamshire. ... Several places exist with the name Thames, and the word is also used as part of several brand and company names Most famous is the River Thames in England, on which the city of London stands Other Thames Rivers There is a Thames River in Canada There is a Thames...

Other earthworks, in addition to those near the White Horse, overlook the Vale, such as Letcombe Castle (also known as Segsbury Camp) above Wantage. At the foot of the hills, not far East of the Horse, is preserved the so-called Blowing Stone of Kingston Lisle, a mass of sandstone (a sarsen) pierced with holes in such a way that, when blown like a trumpet, it produces a loud note. It is believed that, in earlier times, the stone served the purpose of a bugle. Segsbury Camp is an Iron Age hill fort situated on the Berkshire Downs, near the Ridgeway above Wantage, in the Vale of White Horse district of Oxfordshire, England. ... Wantage is a small town in the Thames Valley, southern England. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Kingston Lisle church Kingston Lisle is a small village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse district of Oxfordshire, England (previously Berkshire). ... Red sandstone interior of Lower Antelope Canyon, Arizona, worn smooth due to erosion by flash flooding over millions of years Sandstone is a sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-size mineral or rock grains. ... Sarsen stones are sandstone blocks found on Salisbury Plain and elsewhere. ...

Several of the village churches in the Vale are of interest, notably the fine Early English cruciform building at Uffington, that has a hexagonal tower and is known as The Cathedral of the Vale [1]. Salisbury Cathedral, built c. ...

Industry

Farmland and White Horse Hill

The Vale used to have a thriving dairy industry, especially in the 1960s. That has dwindled to just a few herds of dairy cows, in the first years of the 21st century. Farming is now mostly arable. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2560 × 1920 pixel, file size: 2. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2560 × 1920 pixel, file size: 2. ... In geography, arable land is a form of agricultural land use, meaning land that can be (and is) used for growing crops. ...

Natural mineral resources are mined (quarried) in the Vale. These include sand, gravel and (formerly) Fuller's Earth. A mineral is a naturally occurring substance formed through geological processes that has a characteristic chemical composition, a highly ordered atomic structure and specific physical properties. ... Patterns in the sand Sand is a granular material made up of fine rock particles. ... Gravel being unloaded from a barge Gravel is rock that is of a certain grain size range. ... Fullers earth is any nonplastic clay or claylike material that can be used to decolorize, filter, and purify animal, mineral, and vegetable oils and greases. ...

With the closure of the MG works at Abingdon, there is no motor industry, apart from some specialist car makers and component factories. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

The length of the Vale is traversed by the main line of the Great Western Railway, between Didcot and Swindon. There used to be a station on this line (Challow Station), situated on the A417 road, a little to the East of Stanford in the Vale. This was closed by Dr Beeching, in the early 1960s. The nearest main line stations are now Swindon, Oxford and Didcot Parkway. The original Bristol Temple Meads station, first terminus of the GWR, is the building to the left of this picture The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company, linking South West England, the West Country and South Wales with London. ... Statistics Population: 25,231 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SU525900 Administration District: South Oxfordshire Shire county: Oxfordshire Region: South East England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Oxfordshire Historic county: Berkshire Services Police force: Thames Valley Police Ambulance: South Central Post office and telephone Post town... , For other places with the same name, see Swindon (disambiguation). ... The A417 is a main road in England. ... The village green in Stanford in the Vale, Oxfordshire, UK Stanford in the Vale is a large village with approximately 2,000 residents situated in the Vale of the White Horse, Oxfordshire, England. ... Richard Beeching Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching (21 April 1913 - 23 March 1985), commonly known as Doctor Beeching, was chairman of British Railways and a physicist and engineer. ... Swindon railway station is a railway station serving the town of Swindon in Wiltshire in England. ... Oxford is a mainline railway station serving the city of Oxford, England. ... Didcot Parkway railway station is a railway station serving the town of Didcot in Oxfordshire in England. ...

See also

• Pendon Museum – the main exhibit is an extensive model featuring scale replicas of buildings from the Vale.

Pendon Museum, located in Abdingdon near Oxford, displays typical scenes on the Great Western Railway (GWR) of the 1920s. ...

References

• Thomas Hughes, The Scouring of the White Horse (1859).
• G.K. Chesterton, "The Ballad of the White Horse" (1911).
• Rudyard Kipling, "Puck of Pook's Hill".
• Tom Brown's Schooldays

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