English Heritage sites near Swyncombe Parish
ABINGDON COUNTY HALL MUSEUM
13 miles from Swyncombe 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
16 miles from Swyncombe Parish
Roofed conduit for Oxford's first water mains, constructed during the early 17th century.
SILCHESTER ROMAN CITY WALLS AND AMPHITHEATRE
17 miles from Swyncombe Parish
Originally a tribal centre of the Iron Age Atrebates, Silchester became the large and important Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum.
DONNINGTON CASTLE
19 miles from Swyncombe 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.
BERKHAMSTED CASTLE
22 miles from Swyncombe Parish
Visit the substantial remains of a strong and important motte and bailey castle dating from the 11th to 13th centuries, with surrounding walls, ditches and earthworks.
HARMONDSWORTH BARN
24 miles from Swyncombe Parish
This Grade I listed oak-framed medieval barn ranks alongside the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey and Buckingham Palace for its exceptional architectural and historic interest.
Churches in Swyncombe Parish
Swyncombe: St Botolph
off B480
Swyncombe
Henley-on-Thames
(01491) 614281
https://www.icknieldbenefice.com/
Historical records for this parish are held in the Oxfordshire Records Office. People undertaking research into family history will need to contact this office at St Luke's Church, Temple Road. Cowley, Oxfordshire, OX4.
Pubs in Swyncombe Parish
Five Horseshoes
Maidensgrove, RG9 6EX
(01491) 641282
thefivehorseshoes.co.uk