English Heritage sites near Brightwell Baldwin Parish
ABINGDON COUNTY HALL MUSEUM
10 miles from Brightwell Baldwin Parish
This splendid 17th century Baroque building housed a courtroom for assizes, raised on arches over a market space. It now houses the Abingdon Museum.
NORTH HINKSEY CONDUIT HOUSE
12 miles from Brightwell Baldwin Parish
Roofed conduit for Oxford's first water mains, constructed during the early 17th century.
DONNINGTON CASTLE
19 miles from Brightwell Baldwin Parish
The striking twin-towered 14th-century gatehouse of this castle, later the focus of a Civil War siege and battle, survives amid impressive earthworks.
SILCHESTER ROMAN CITY WALLS AND AMPHITHEATRE
20 miles from Brightwell Baldwin Parish
Originally a tribal centre of the Iron Age Atrebates, Silchester became the large and important Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum.
NORTH LEIGH ROMAN VILLA
21 miles from Brightwell Baldwin Parish
The remains of a large, well built Roman courtyard villa. The most important feature is a nearly complete mosaic tile floor, patterned in reds and browns.
UFFINGTON CASTLE - WHITE HORSE AND DRAGON HILL
23 miles from Brightwell Baldwin Parish
Three atmospheric sites lie along the Ridgeway. Uffington 'Castle' is a large Iron Age hillfort, Dragon Hill a natural mound associated in legend with St George.
Churches in Brightwell Baldwin Parish
Brightwell Baldwin St Bartholomew
Pubs in Brightwell Baldwin Parish
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Brightwell Baldwin, OX49 5NP
(01491) 612497
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