Chipping Norton Virtual Trail

Chipping Norton is a small town in northern Oxfordshire, situated on the edge of the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. At just over 200m above sea level, it is the highest town in the county, built on a limestone plateau, on a rock formation named after the town itself; the Chipping Norton Limestone. A small brook runs through the town, and over thousands of years has carved a deep valley that slopes down to the south of Chipping Norton, and cuts through the sequence of rocks that underlie this area of Oxfordshire. Chipping Norton is a great place to see how the Cotswold landscape is dictated by the geology. The Cotswold building stones themselves even tell a fascinating story of the area's rich Earth Heritage.

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