Hills of Britain and Ireland
OS Map of Bald Hill
Height: 257m / 844ft • Prominence: 125m / 410ft • Summit : in woods 7m SW of track • Trip reports (hill-bagging)
Cowleaze Woods, Ashton Rowant National Nature Reserve Chilterns
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Bald Hill in the Chilterns, Oxfordshire
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The Halifax Bomber Memorial (Halifax bomber LW 579) Cowleaze Woods
The night of the 30th of March 1944 was one of the worst in the RAF's history. The raid on the German city of Nuremburg resulted in the highest number of aircrew losses for any single air mission in World War II. 545 airmen died on that single night. One of the planes - Halifax Bomber LW579 - successfully took part in the raid, but crashed in Aston Rowant in South Oxfordshire on its way back to RAF Snaith in Yorkshire. Now a simple memorial stone lies at the crash site in Cowleaze Wood. We've tracked down some of the relatives of the Halifax crew to bring you the story of that fateful night, bringing together relatives of the men who've never met before, and finding out why the airmen will never be forgotten in a quiet corner of an Oxfordshire woodland. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p037s842" rel="noreferrer nofollow www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p037s842
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Ashton Rowant National Nature Reserve. The Chiltern's and Thames river valley
From Stoke Talmage it was a hop and a skip to Ashton Rowant National Nature Reserve and the scarp slope of the Chilterns overlooking the Thame Valley. Big open skies filled with Red kites riding the thermals, green and greater spotted woodpeckers raising and dipping over the tree line and ravens calling out over the valley slopes. With a warm autumnal sun and a cool breeze a few wild flowers still in bloom nodding their heads from grasses in the meadows.
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"Eyebright" Ashton Rowant National Nature Reserve
On the scarp slopes and meadows wild flowers are still in bloom, scabious, greater knapweed and eyebright.
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The path to the end of the spur. Ashton Rowant National Nature Reserve
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Cowleaze Woods, Ashton Rowant National Nature Reserve Chilterns
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Bald Hill in the Chilterns, Oxfordshire
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The Halifax Bomber Memorial (Halifax bomber LW 579) Cowleaze Woods
The night of the 30th of March 1944 was one of the worst in the RAF's history. The raid on the German city of Nuremburg resulted in the highest number of aircrew losses for any single air mission in World War II. 545 airmen died on that single night. One of the planes - Halifax Bomber LW579 - successfully took part in the raid, but crashed in Aston Rowant in South Oxfordshire on its way back to RAF Snaith in Yorkshire. Now a simple memorial stone lies at the crash site in Cowleaze Wood. We've tracked down some of the relatives of the Halifax crew to bring you the story of that fateful night, bringing together relatives of the men who've never met before, and finding out why the airmen will never be forgotten in a quiet corner of an Oxfordshire woodland. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p037s842" rel="noreferrer nofollow www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p037s842
oxford cowleazewoods baldhill halifaxbomberlw579 chilterns 54032731123
Ashton Rowant National Nature Reserve. The Chiltern's and Thames river valley
From Stoke Talmage it was a hop and a skip to Ashton Rowant National Nature Reserve and the scarp slope of the Chilterns overlooking the Thame Valley. Big open skies filled with Red kites riding the thermals, green and greater spotted woodpeckers raising and dipping over the tree line and ravens calling out over the valley slopes. With a warm autumnal sun and a cool breeze a few wild flowers still in bloom nodding their heads from grasses in the meadows.
ashtonrowant nationalnaturereserve chilterns oxfordshire 54030156170
"Eyebright" Ashton Rowant National Nature Reserve
On the scarp slopes and meadows wild flowers are still in bloom, scabious, greater knapweed and eyebright.
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The path to the end of the spur. Ashton Rowant National Nature Reserve
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Looking over the Thames Valley from Ashton Rowant National Nature Reserve on the scarp of the Chilterns
The view from the top of the Chiltern hills overlooking the Thames Valley and a great place to sit, watch the kites and ravens with coffee and shortbread.
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Near Watlington and Cowleaze woods
Out for a walk, Christmas Common circuit from Cowleaze Woods
04-Jun-23 • Miche & Jon Rousell • flickr
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Videos
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Notes
- Data: Database of British and Irish Hills v18.2
- Maps: We use OS mapping for England, Scotland, Wales, and the Isle of Man. Sadly, Channel Islands, Northern (OSNI) and Southern Ireland (OSI) mapping isn't available online, so we use Openstreetmap.