Faringdon Local Attractions
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Faringdon Museum

Local Attractions

  • Buscot Park, 18th century house contains the Faringdon Collection of  fine paintings and furniture set in attractive Parkland; featuring two lakes,  water gardens and a walled garden. Mid-way between Faringdon and Lechlade. Tel: 01367 240786

  • Faringdon House, built for Lord Henry Pye in the 18th century. Lord  Berners (1883-1950) inherited the house and had many distinguished visitors  including Nancy Mitford, HG Wells, Aldous Huxley and John Betjeman.

  • Faringdon Folly - half a mile E of Faringdon. Lord Berners' folly  built in the 1930's gives extensive views of the Thames valley.

  • Great Coxwell Tithe Barn (1 mile southwest) 13th century church and  monastic stone tithe barn. 152 feet long by 44 feet wide and 48 feet high with  four feet thick walls in Cotswold stone and with original timber. Open all  year.

  • Kelmscott to the North. Village and Elizabethan Manor once home to  designer, craftsman and artist William Morris. Tel: 01367 252486

  • Radcot Bridge - probably the oldest span across the Thames. Scene of  many battles. Adjacent manor house was a Royalist stronghold in the Civil  War.

  • The Ridgeway - to the South-West, an ancient track of 85 miles across  southern England. Near Uffington visit the Wayland Smithy, a 5000 year-old long  barrow and White Horse hill with its stylised 365 foot horse cut into the  underlying chalk.

  • Cotswold Woollen Weavers, Filkins, Nr Lechlade Glos, GL7 3JJ. See  spinning and weaving with traditional machinery. Tel: 01367  860491

  • Cogges Manor Farm Museum, Church Lane, Witney Oxon OX8 6LA. Rural  life in Victorian Oxfordshire. Tel: 01993 772602

  • Kingston Bagpuize House and Garden, Kingston Bagpuize Abingdon Oxon,  OX13 5AX. Tel: 01865 820259

  • Tom Brown's School museum, The Old School, Broad Street, Uffington  Oxon Tel: 01367 820259