Traditional county: Oxfordshire · District / Borough: Vale of White Horse · Region: South East
Explore Westcot, Oxfordshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Westcot map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.
| Place | Westcot |
| Traditional County | Oxfordshire |
| District / Borough | Vale of White Horse |
| Region | South East |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 51.585249 |
| Longitude | -1.511332 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Westcot, a quiet hamlet within Oxfordshire's Vale of White Horse, breathes the gentle air of the South East. It lies 5.9 km west of Wantage (from Wantage: bearing 267°T, OS grid SU 339 874), and is situated west-south-west of Sparsholt village. The surrounding landscape, a subtle tapestry of rolling chalk downland, often catches the late afternoon sun in a way that transforms the ordinary fields into swathes of burnished gold. A scattering of ancient hedgerows, their gnarled branches whispering secrets of bygone seasons, punctuates the fields where sheep graze with a quiet diligence. The very air in Westcot seems to hold a certain stillness, a contemplative pause that might have soothed the minds of those who have passed through its lanes over centuries.
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Explore Westcot, Oxfordshire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 51.585249, -1.511332. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | June 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |