Whitchurch Hill

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Whitchurch Hill
St. John the Baptist parish church
Whitchurch Hill is located in Oxfordshire
Whitchurch Hill
Whitchurch Hill
Location within Oxfordshire
OS grid referenceSU6479
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townReading
Postcode districtRG8
Dialling code0118
PoliceThames Valley
FireOxfordshire
AmbulanceSouth Central
UK Parliament
WebsiteGoring Heath community website
List of places
UK
England
Oxfordshire
51°30′36″N 1°04′34″W / 51.510°N 1.076°W / 51.510; -1.076

Whitchurch Hill is a village in the Chiltern Hills in Oxfordshire, about 5.5 miles (9 km) northwest of Reading, Berkshire, near Whitchurch-on-Thames. The Church of England parish church of Saint John the Baptist was designed by the architect Francis Bacon (1842–1930) and built in 1883.[1] Whitchuch Hill has a public house, the Sun Inn.

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  • Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin. p. 839. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.