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Cliffs at the Needles on the IOW

Newport

in the county of Isle of Wight

St Mawes, Cornwall

St Mawes

in the county of Cornwall

Recommended towns & villages near Abingdon Museum

View across the Thames at St Helen's Church, Abingdon, Oxfordshire.

Abingdon

(0.2 miles, 0.4 km)

Interesting town, developed around the gates of an abbey founded in 675...

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Thatched cottages

Clifton Hampden

(3.3 miles, 5.4 km, direction E)

This is a popular Thames side village which was the choice of Jerome K. Jerome for a setting for one of the riotous scenes of his "Three Men in a Boat" and it is easy to see just.....

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An beautiful Grade II listed Cruck cottage in Long Wittenham

Long Wittenham

(3.8 miles, 6.2 km, direction SE)

Attractive Oxfordshire village with historic Iron Age Fort spread over Wittenham Clumps...

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The village pond in Appleton

Appleton

(4.3 miles, 6.9 km, direction NW)

Appleton is a village in Oxfordshire, some 4 miles northwest of the historic market town of Abingdon. It was once part of the county of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary change,.....

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The village pond at Marsh Baldon with the village school to the right in the background

Marsh Baldon

(4.4 miles, 7.0 km, direction NE)

Picturesque village in Oxfordshire..

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Cumnor

Cumnor

(4.7 miles, 7.6 km, direction NW)

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Dorchester-On-Thames, the Abbey

Dorchester-on-Thames

(5.5 miles, 8.8 km, direction E)

This is a delightful village set beside the River Thames at a point where the historic river is joined by the lesser known River Thame. The village is renowned for its Abbey.....

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A picture of East Hendred

East Hendred

(5.7 miles, 9.2 km, direction SW)

East Hendred is one of the spring line villages nestling just below the Downs in the Vale of the White Horse, Oxfordshire...

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Radcliffe Camera Building

Oxford

(5.7 miles, 9.2 km, direction N)

Oxford's fame is perhaps second only to Windsor, it is an acclaimed seat of learning with a University whose first college was founded in 1249, almost half a century after the first charter granted to the town by Henry II...

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St Katherine's Church

Chiselhampton

(6.2 miles, 9.9 km, direction E)

Dreamy village where the River Tame is crossed by a 16th-century stone bridge...

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Abingdon Abbey - July 2009

Abingdon Abbey

(0.3 miles, 0.5 km)

Abingdon Abbey was founded in 675 and demolished following Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries. During the life of the.....

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'Day Out With Thomas' at Didcot Railway Centre, Oxfordshire

Didcot Railway Centre

(4.3 miles, 6.9 km, direction SE)

Recreating the golden age of the Great Western Railway with steam locomotives in the engine shed, signalling displays, Brunels's.....

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Glenn Mill

(4.5 miles, 7.2 km, direction W)

A rural water-powered corn mill on a tributary of the River Ock. The present building of local limestone and the working parts.....

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A picture of Dorchester Abbey

Dorchester Abbey

(5.3 miles, 8.6 km, direction E)

The wonderful abbey church of St.Peter and St.Paul has a history stretching back to the year 634, but the church we see today.....

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A picture of Champs Chapel Museum

Champs Chapel Museum

(5.7 miles, 9.1 km, direction SW)

Displays of Hendred's Millenium history housed in a Grade one Listed ex-Carthusian Chapel (15th Century)...

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A picture of Botanic Gardens of Oxford

Botanic Gardens of Oxford

(5.8 miles, 9.3 km, direction N)

Situated on the banks of the River Cherwell is the peaceful settings of the beautiful Botanic Gardens of Oxford. The gardens are.....

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Oxford, the Ashmolean Museum

Ashmolean Museum

(5.9 miles, 9.5 km, direction N)

Built in 1845 as the university Galleries, this Museum became home to the Ashmolean collection in 1894. The museums present.....

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A picture of University Museum of Natural History

University Museum of Natural History

(6.2 miles, 9.9 km, direction N)

Opened in 1860 as a home for the teaching of natural science in Oxford. The Museum, with its glass-roofed court, naturalistic.....

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A picture of Pitt Rivers Museum

Pitt Rivers Museum

(6.2 miles, 9.9 km, direction N)

An impressive storehouse filled with the richest examples of human creativity and imagination. Masks peer down from the high.....

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Distant views of Cowley, Oxfordshire.

Shotover Country Park

(7.1 miles, 11.4 km, direction NE)

Shotover Country Park covers 117 hectares on the southern slopes of Shotover Hill, and is very popular with walkers, joggers, dog.....

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