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__NOTOC__ Chain Hill is one of the hills of the North Wessex Downs, located in the civil parish of Wantage in the English county of Oxfordshire. In 1974 it was transferred from Berkshire. It is designated part of the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty by the Countryside Agency and forms part of the Vale of the White Horse. Chain Hill is the chalk downland hill directly above Wantage and also the name of the road rising from Wantage through the westerly part of the scarp to the downs. It rises steeply south of Wantage towards Wantage Field and back to the Ridgeway and east from Manor Road across to Lark Hill. Chain Hill is also known as the B4494 and is signposted to Newbury. At the crest of the hill, there is a small community amid copses of beech, fir and chestnut and a reservoir which taps into the chalk water beds and supplies water to Wantage. Apart from this, most of Chain Hill is wide undulating crop plains made up of large fields descending from the ridgeway. At the bottom slopes of Chain Hill is a cemetery and then at the bottom of this, is Ormond Road and former St. Mary's School. == Panorama == Along the length of Chain Hill there are elevated 360 degree panoramic views over Wantage, to the Cotswolds, Faringdon Folly, Badbury Hill and the Oxfordshire plains. To the south and west, Chain Hill is encircled by the Wessex hill forts of White Horse Hill, Ram's Hill and Segsbury Camp together with the natural Ridgeway features around the Devil's Punchbowl. To the east of the Chain Hill scarp there are sunrise views behind Flagstaff Hill and Goldbury Hill to Wittenham Clumps, Brightwell Barrow, the Sinodum Hills and the chalk crosses carved in the Chiltern Hills escarpment at Bledlow and Princes Risborough. The Chain Hill scarp appears on British Library map called Wantage 〔Wantage, Stanley, William. ,1828-1830, The British Library, OSD 160,9〕 and can be seen to be the closest panoramic viewpoint of both Wantage centre, the Thames Valley basin and the hill forts and beacons around. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chain Hill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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