English Heritage sites near Aston Upthorpe Parish
ABINGDON COUNTY HALL MUSEUM
8 miles from Aston Upthorpe 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.
DONNINGTON CASTLE
12 miles from Aston Upthorpe 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 HINKSEY CONDUIT HOUSE
12 miles from Aston Upthorpe Parish
Roofed conduit for Oxford's first water mains, constructed during the early 17th century.
UFFINGTON CASTLE - WHITE HORSE AND DRAGON HILL
16 miles from Aston Upthorpe 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.
SILCHESTER ROMAN CITY WALLS AND AMPHITHEATRE
16 miles from Aston Upthorpe Parish
Originally a tribal centre of the Iron Age Atrebates, Silchester became the large and important Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum.
WAYLAND'S SMITHY
17 miles from Aston Upthorpe 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.
Churches in Aston Upthorpe Parish
Aston Upthorpe: All Saints
No churches found in Aston Upthorpe Parish