English Heritage sites near Bradfield Parish
SILCHESTER ROMAN CITY WALLS AND AMPHITHEATRE
7 miles from Bradfield Parish
Originally a tribal centre of the Iron Age Atrebates, Silchester became the large and important Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum.
DONNINGTON CASTLE
8 miles from Bradfield 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.
ABINGDON COUNTY HALL MUSEUM
16 miles from Bradfield 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.
CHISBURY CHAPEL
20 miles from Bradfield Parish
This pretty thatched and flintwalled 13th century chapel survived after the Reformation in 1547 by being used as a barn as part of Chisbury Farm.
UFFINGTON CASTLE - WHITE HORSE AND DRAGON HILL
20 miles from Bradfield 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
21 miles from Bradfield 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.
Churches in Bradfield Parish
St Peter's Bradfield Southend
Southend Road
Bradfield Southend
Reading
01635 860220
http://www.bradfieldchurch.org.uk/
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Pubs in Bradfield Parish
Queen's Head
Southend Road, Bradfield Southend, RG7 6EY
(0118) 436 0589
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