Theatres · South East England
Octagon
In or near Winchester.
Octagon is a theatre in the United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 2 h–3 h
- Nearest railway station
- Winchester · 1.1 km
- Wheelchair accessible
Getting there & planning your visit
The nearest railway station to the Octagon is Winchester, located 1.1 km away. The postcode for the venue is SO23 9LT. The theatre is wheelchair accessible.
About
Octagon is a working theatre in Hampshire, South-East England. The site is a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest. It sits within the Winchester parliamentary constituency. The nearest railway station is Winchester, about 1.1 km away. Postcode area SO23.
Photo gallery
See it from the streetimagery from 2020
Imagery © Mapillary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0
Protected designations
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: River Test SSSI
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: River Itchen - 2000227 SSSI
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
In geometry, an octagon (from Ancient Greek ὀκτάγωνον (oktágōnon) 'eight angles') is an eight-sided polygon or 8-gon. A regular octagon has Schläfli symbol {8} and can also be constructed as a quasiregular truncated square, t{4}, which alternates two types of edges. A truncated octagon, t{8} is a hexadecagon, {16}. A 3D analog of the octagon can be the rhombicuboctahedron with the triangular faces on it like the replaced edges, if one considers the octagon to be a truncated square.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
Background
Architecture
A regular octagon at a given circumcircle may be constructed as follows: A regular octagon can be constructed using a straightedge and a compass, as 8 = 2<sup>3</sup>, a power of two: The regular octagon can be constructed with meccano bars. Twelve bars of size 4, three bars of size 5 and two bars of size 6 are required. Each side of a regular octagon subtends half a right angle at the centre of the circle which connects its vertices. Its area can thus be computed as the sum of eight isosceles triangles, leading to the result: for an octagon of side a.
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 51.0588, -1.3130
- County
- Hampshire
- District
- Winchester
- Parish
- Winchester, unparished area
- Postcode
- SO23 9LT
- Parliamentary constituency
- Winchester
- Nearest railway station
- Winchester — 1.1 km
Sources
- osm: w532819311 (ODbL)
- wikipedia: Octagon (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Octagon?
- Octagon is in Hampshire, South-East England, United Kingdom (postcode SO23 9LT), in the parish of Winchester, unparished area.
- What is Octagon?
- Octagon is a theatre in the United Kingdom.
- How do I get to Octagon?
- The nearest railway station is Winchester, about 1.1 km away. Drivers can use postcode SO23 9LT.
- Is Octagon a protected site?
- Yes — Octagon is part of the River Test SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest and the River Itchen - 2000227 SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest.
- How do I get to Octagon?
- The nearest railway station is Winchester, about 1.1 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode SO23 9LT.