Cumnor Hill
| Cumnor Hill | |
| Berkshire | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP476050 |
| Location: | 51°44’30"N, 1°18’43"W |
| Data | |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Vale of White Horse |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Oxford West and Abingdon |
Cumnor Hill is a hill and a village development built upon it in the parish of Cumnor in Berkshire, lying just to the west of the city of Oxford.
The village sits between the original Cumnor village and Botley, outside the Oxford Ring Road on the outskirts of Oxford. It is wholly contiguous with Botley and Dean Court, while Chawley links Cumnor Hill to Cumnor.
The road up Cumnor Hill was the original route of the A420 between Oxford and Swindon, until the Cumnor Hill by-pass was built in the 1970s. The road is now unclassified.
At the top of Cumnor Hill is the hamlet of Chawley, where the Kimmeridge clay is close to the surface. There were brickworks there until 1937.[1]