English Heritage sites near Upton Parish
ABINGDON COUNTY HALL MUSEUM
7 miles from Upton 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
11 miles from Upton 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 Upton Parish
Roofed conduit for Oxford's first water mains, constructed during the early 17th century.
UFFINGTON CASTLE - WHITE HORSE AND DRAGON HILL
13 miles from Upton 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
14 miles from Upton 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.
SILCHESTER ROMAN CITY WALLS AND AMPHITHEATRE
17 miles from Upton Parish
Originally a tribal centre of the Iron Age Atrebates, Silchester became the large and important Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum.
Churches in Upton Parish
St Mary the Virgin
Church Street
Upton
Didcot
(01235) 850267
http://www.churnchurches.co.uk
Pubs in Upton Parish
George & Dragon
Reading Road, Upton, OX11 9JJ
(01235) 850723
thegeorge-dragon.co.uk