English Heritage sites near Ipsden Parish
ABINGDON COUNTY HALL MUSEUM
12 miles from Ipsden 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.
SILCHESTER ROMAN CITY WALLS AND AMPHITHEATRE
14 miles from Ipsden Parish
Originally a tribal centre of the Iron Age Atrebates, Silchester became the large and important Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum.
NORTH HINKSEY CONDUIT HOUSE
15 miles from Ipsden Parish
Roofed conduit for Oxford's first water mains, constructed during the early 17th century.
DONNINGTON CASTLE
15 miles from Ipsden 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.
UFFINGTON CASTLE - WHITE HORSE AND DRAGON HILL
22 miles from Ipsden 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
23 miles from Ipsden 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.