English Heritage sites near Chilton Parish
ABINGDON COUNTY HALL MUSEUM
7 miles from Chilton 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
10 miles from Chilton 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
12 miles from Chilton 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.
NORTH HINKSEY CONDUIT HOUSE
12 miles from Chilton Parish
Roofed conduit for Oxford's first water mains, constructed during the early 17th century.
WAYLAND'S SMITHY
13 miles from Chilton 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 Chilton Parish
Originally a tribal centre of the Iron Age Atrebates, Silchester became the large and important Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum.
Churches in Chilton Parish
Chilton All Saints
Church Hill
Chilton
Didcot
(01235) 799376
http://www.harwellandchiltonchurches.org.uk/
High in the North Wessex Downs overlooking the Vale of the White Horse, and nestled in the shadow of the historic Ridgeway, lays the village of Chilton. Surrounded by an area of outstanding natural beauty, the chalk downland is rich in features dating back to pre-historic times. Nearby Churn is believed to have been the place where, in the early 7th century, St Birinus converted the people of Wessex to Christianity.
All Saints' Chilton has a 12th century nave with a 13th century south aisle and a 14th century chancel. There is also a two-floor extension. The stone tower is Victorian. The bells which have been silent for many years due to structural problems have been restored. The bells and the recently restored clock were formally rededicated in January 2001.
Pubs in Chilton Parish
Rose & Crown
Main Street, Chilton, OX11 0RZ
(01235) 862992
roseandcrown.info/home.html