English Heritage sites near Cuxham with Easington Parish
ABINGDON COUNTY HALL MUSEUM
10 miles from Cuxham with Easington 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
12 miles from Cuxham with Easington Parish
Roofed conduit for Oxford's first water mains, constructed during the early 17th century.
NORTH LEIGH ROMAN VILLA
20 miles from Cuxham with Easington 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.
DONNINGTON CASTLE
21 miles from Cuxham with Easington 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.
SILCHESTER ROMAN CITY WALLS AND AMPHITHEATRE
21 miles from Cuxham with Easington Parish
Originally a tribal centre of the Iron Age Atrebates, Silchester became the large and important Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum.
BERKHAMSTED CASTLE
22 miles from Cuxham with Easington 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 Cuxham with Easington Parish
Cuxham: Holy Rood
B480
Cuxham
Watlington
01491 838535
https://bensonandewelmechurches.co.uk
The ancient church of the Holy Rood is situated at the centre of this delightful Oxfordshire village. It is mainly 14th windows with a Norman tower and pyramid roof, although the chancel was rebuilt in 1895 after a fire. There are some good old timbers and pews surviving as well as fragments of 14th century windows. It's open and light interior lends itself well to simple worship. At harvest festival it is filled with produce reflecting the agricultural community and the glory of God.
Easington: St Peter
Pubs in Cuxham with Easington Parish
Half Moon
Cuxham Road, Cuxham, OX49 5NF
(01491) 612165
thehalfmooncuxham.co.uk