English Heritage sites near Appleford-on-Thames Parish
ABINGDON COUNTY HALL MUSEUM
3 miles from Appleford-on-Thames 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
7 miles from Appleford-on-Thames Parish
Roofed conduit for Oxford's first water mains, constructed during the early 17th century.
UFFINGTON CASTLE - WHITE HORSE AND DRAGON HILL
15 miles from Appleford-on-Thames 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.
DONNINGTON CASTLE
16 miles from Appleford-on-Thames 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.
NORTH LEIGH ROMAN VILLA
16 miles from Appleford-on-Thames 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.
WAYLAND'S SMITHY
16 miles from Appleford-on-Thames Parish
A fine and atmospheric Neolithic chambered long barrow 2km (11/4 miles) along the Ridgeway from the Uffington White Horse: it was once believed to be the habitation of the Saxon smith-god Wayland.
No churches found in Appleford-on-Thames Parish