周辺の天然記念物・トップ6

Historical landmark. The Yew tree in the churchyard is at least 1000 years old and though it has been struck by lightning and blown over in a storm it is still partly alive.

Grimsbury Castle Fort is an Iron Age hillfort situated on top of a high hill in Berkshire. The hillfort would have been occupied between the 2nd and 3rd centuries. It had three original entrances, which the best preserved being the Northern entrance.

A memorial obelisk to Robert Loyd-Lindsay, Lord Wantage. Robert Lloyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage, was a soldier, politician and philanthropist. He co-founded the British National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War, which later became the British Red Cross. He died in 1901. Lady Wantage erected a monument to Lord Wantage in 1903. The monument stands on a Bronze Age round barrow adjacent to the Ridgeway at Betterton Down near Lockinge, Oxfordshire. https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/photos/item/BAR03/01/428

The rugged yew tree is a survivor, having been badly damaged in several recent arson attacks. The yew likely predates the All Saints church built in the 12th century. There is evidence of Roman and Saxon settlement in this area, and so it is likely a wooden church once existed on the present site. Baxter wrote about the yew in his 1992 book 'The Eternal Yew' and called it 'a survivor whatever the circumstances - a typical eternal yew'.

Segsbury Camp is an Iron Age hill fort in the Vale of White Horse. You can explore extensive and well-preserved ramparts and gateways in the fort. Historians believe this site was occupied between the sixth and the second centuries BC and was used as a communal centre for many activities.

Segsbury Camp is an Iron Age hill fort in the Vale of White Horse. You can explore extensive and well-preserved ramparts and gateways in the fort. Historians believe this site was occupied between the sixth and the second centuries BC and was used as a communal centre for many activities.

The monument to Robert Loyd Lindsay, Lord Wantage, is situated high on the Ridgeway and affords stunning views of the vale. Lord Wantage was a distinguished soldier and one of the first to be awarded the Victoria Cross in the Crimean War.