Whitehill Earth Station
The site was developed in the 1980s and operates as a satellite ground station engaged in extra-planetary telecommunications (non-Earth based communications).
Old limestone quarry, Now a satellite earth station operated by Vodafone. Formerly operated by Mercury Communications, which merged into Cable and Wireless.
… Vodafone’s Whitehill earth station uses C-band links to satellites located within a +60O east-west range of the site. Inevitably, this means that satellites at the extremes result in low angles of elevation, hence the exclusion zone to ensure there is no interference.
And I found a paper by someone in the Falkland Islands complaining about their broadband speed, with a diagram showing their connection to a satellite which connects to the UK at Whitehill.
At Enslow Bridge, where the guy was doing motocross, there was a Civil War battle in 1644. The Parliamentarians moved north from Kidlington to test the crossing and found the Royalists had two six-pounders and a demi-cannon to cover Enslow Bridge.
Sparrow under the canal road bridge (A4095)
The swan (well, one of the two)in the Oxford Canal
Viburnum farreri bud (at Pigeon Lock, built 1790, should you ask).
Viburnum farreri flower
“Mole hill”. Behind (where Libby looked for the sheep) is “Peter’s Spout” A now-redundant ornamental outfall from the lower lake, replaced by a modern sluice. The lake (which we couldn’t see) was created by the Morton family in the 1770s by damming a stream …. (as one does).
The tree we walked right round
Industrial agricultural building. “Field Barn” according the the map.
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