English Heritage sites near Aston Tirrold Parish
ABINGDON COUNTY HALL MUSEUM
8 miles from Aston Tirrold 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 Tirrold 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
13 miles from Aston Tirrold Parish
Roofed conduit for Oxford's first water mains, constructed during the early 17th century.
SILCHESTER ROMAN CITY WALLS AND AMPHITHEATRE
15 miles from Aston Tirrold Parish
Originally a tribal centre of the Iron Age Atrebates, Silchester became the large and important Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum.
UFFINGTON CASTLE - WHITE HORSE AND DRAGON HILL
16 miles from Aston Tirrold 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.
WAYLAND'S SMITHY
17 miles from Aston Tirrold 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 Tirrold Parish
Aston Tirrold: St Michaels
Rectory Lane
Aston Tirrold
Didcot
(01235) 850267
http://www.churnchurches.co.uk
It is known that a church existed here about 1080, for the advowson (right of presenting an incumbent) was included in a grant made by William the Conqueror to the Abbey of Preaux in Normandy. Bishop Jocelyn of Salisbury (1142-84) notified the Abbot of Preaux that he could only present a parson with the consent of Nicholas, son of Torold, whose family appears to have given its name to the village.
Pubs in Aston Tirrold Parish
Olivier at the Chequers
Fullers Road, Aston Tirrold, OX11 9EN
(01235) 850800
olivieratthechequers.co.uk