English Heritage sites near Shirburn Parish

Abingdon County Hall Museum

ABINGDON COUNTY HALL MUSEUM

13 miles from Shirburn 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

NORTH HINKSEY CONDUIT HOUSE

14 miles from Shirburn Parish

Roofed conduit for Oxford's first water mains, constructed during the early 17th century.

Berkhamsted Castle

BERKHAMSTED CASTLE

20 miles from Shirburn 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.

Silchester Roman City Walls and Amphitheatre

SILCHESTER ROMAN CITY WALLS AND AMPHITHEATRE

21 miles from Shirburn Parish

Originally a tribal centre of the Iron Age Atrebates, Silchester became the large and important Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum.

Donnington Castle

DONNINGTON CASTLE

22 miles from Shirburn 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

NORTH LEIGH ROMAN VILLA

23 miles from Shirburn 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.


No churches found in Shirburn Parish


No churches found in Shirburn Parish