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Athelhampton House, Dorset

Athelhampton

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Kersey

in the county of Suffolk

Pictures of Woolstone

a Picturesque Village in the county of Oxfordshire

About Woolstone

Once part of the county of Berkshire, the village of Woolstone sits at the foot of the Berkshire Downs in the Vale of White Horse, and is an old spring line settlement, with a group of springs to the south, in the chalk escarpment less than half a mile away which collectively are known as Woolstone Wells.

The village church of All Saints was built around 1195, and is of chalk and clunch, with stone quoins. It is a Grade II listed building.

The Domesday Book of 1086 records the name as Olvricestone, and throughout the ages it varied and evolved to what it is now, with the origins of the name deriving from Old English and means "Wulfric's tūn". Tūn is an Old English word for "fence" that came to mean "enclosure" or "homestead".

Interesting & Historical Facts about Woolstone

Woolstone has a 17th-century timber-framed public house, the White Horse Inn

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Wantage, Oxfordshire

Wantage (8 Pictures) a Historic Market Town in the county of Oxfordshire

(6.5 miles, 10.5 km, direction E of Woolstone)

Wantage is a small historic market town in Oxfordshire, famous for being the birthplace of King Alfred the Great, who was born there during the 9th century, though the site of the.....

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Lechlade (38 Pictures) a Historic Market Town in the county of Gloucestershire

(8.6 miles, 13.9 km, direction NW of Woolstone)

This pleasant little market town, set beside the upper reaches of the Thames, is dominated by the elegant spire of the beautiful parish church of St.Lawrence..

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East Hendred (61 Pictures) a Picturesque Village in the county of Oxfordshire

(10.4 miles, 16.7 km, direction E of Woolstone)

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

Fairford

Fairford (57 Pictures) a Historic Market Town in the county of Gloucestershire

(12.1 miles, 19.4 km, direction NW of Woolstone)

Fairford was granted a market charter in the year 1135 but it is believed that village has its origins way back in the Bronze Age. Its beautiful church is world famous for having the most complete set of Medieval stained glass windows of any parish church in the United Kingdom..

Marlborough, Wiltshire

Marlborough (11 Pictures) in the county of Wiltshire

(13.4 miles, 21.5 km, direction SW of Woolstone)

Dramatic chalk downs extend from Berkshire into rural Wiltshire, they are particularly rich in pre-historic remains and shelter a wealth of charming market towns and pretty.....

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Tom Browns School Museum

(1.0 miles, 1.6 km)

Memorabilia of Uffington and district ranging from pre-historic and Roman times up to the present. Information on recent digs at.....

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Vale of White Horse (8 Pictures)

(2.5 miles, 4.0 km, direction W)

The beautiful Vale of the White Horse is the region lying between the River Thames and the Berkshire Downs. It is an area.....

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Ashdown House (1 Pictures)

(3.8 miles, 6.1 km, direction S)

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View of Charney Bassett water mill taken from the upstream side. Charney Bassett, Oxfordshire

Charney Bassett Mill (1 Pictures)

(6.8 miles, 10.9 km, direction NE)

This charming rural water mill was built in the local timber and weather-boarded style with a hipped roof and dates from 1807. .....

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Champs Chapel Museum (3 Pictures)

(10.3 miles, 16.6 km, direction E)

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

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Abingdon Abbey (16 Pictures)

(13.9 miles, 22.3 km, direction NE)

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

Abingdon Museum (Old Berkshire County Hall), Abingdon, Oxfordshire.

Abingdon Museum (6 Pictures)

(13.9 miles, 22.3 km, direction NE)

Abingdon museum is housed in the centre of this ancient town in the spectacular 17th century County Hall. It includes displays.....


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