Uffington, Oxfordshire

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Uffington is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about 10 miles (16 km) east of Swindon. Uffington is most commonly known as the location of the Uffington White Horse hill figure. It was transferred from Berkshire to Oxfordshire in 1974.The village is one of chalk-block houses and thatch, nestling under the White Horse Hills. The parish church of St Mary is known as The Cathedral of the Vale and has the rare feature of a hexagonal tower. The village is in the middle of the Vale of the White Horse, otherwise known as the Ock Valley. Like most parish in the Vale, Uffington parish is long and thin, orientated north-south, so that it encompasses both low-lying arable land as well grazing land on the Berkshire Downs.