English Heritage sites near Britwell Salome Parish
ABINGDON COUNTY HALL MUSEUM
11 miles from Britwell Salome 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
13 miles from Britwell Salome Parish
Roofed conduit for Oxford's first water mains, constructed during the early 17th century.
SILCHESTER ROMAN CITY WALLS AND AMPHITHEATRE
19 miles from Britwell Salome Parish
Originally a tribal centre of the Iron Age Atrebates, Silchester became the large and important Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum.
DONNINGTON CASTLE
20 miles from Britwell Salome 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
22 miles from Britwell Salome 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.
BERKHAMSTED CASTLE
22 miles from Britwell Salome 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.
Churches in Britwell Salome Parish
Britwell Salome: St Nicholas
off B4009
Britwell Salome
Watlington
(01491) 614218
https://www.icknieldbenefice.com/
The parish church of the village of Britwell Salome is a small historic church.
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 Britwell Salome Parish
Red Lion
Britwell Salome, OX49 5LG
(01491) 613140
redlion-restaurant.co.uk