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Local Attractions
- Saxon Walls - the best preserved Saxon fortifications open to view and walk on all year.
- Castle Gardens - Britain in Bloom small garden winner. Open daily all year (except Christmas) - ideal for a picnic.
- Wallingford Museum - listen to the story of Wallingford and the siege in 1646.
- Cholsey and Wallingford Railway - Steam trains to be seen and ridden most summer weekends.
- Benson Veteran Cycle Museum, 61 Brook St., Benson - Collection of 450 veteran cycles from 1818-1930.
- Cholsey A beautiful Norman church. Agatha Christie is buried in the churchyard.
- Didcot Railway Centre, Didcot - Recreating the golden age of the Great Western Railway. Locomotives, equipment and 'steam days'.
- Dorchester Abbey once a Roman settlement. A magnificent Abbey, coaching inns, craft shops and thatched cottages.
- Ewelme
500 year old alms-houses. The manor house was once the home of the Chaucer family and Jerome K Jerome (author of 'Three men in a boat') is buried in the churchyard.
- Greys Court, Rotherfield Greys, Henley-on-Thames
Rebuilt in the 16th century and added to in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, the house
is set amid the remains of the courtyard walls and towers of a 14th century fortified house. A Tudor donkey wheel well-house and an ice-house
are still intact, and the garden contains Archbishop's maze; inspired by Archbishop Runcie's enthronement speech in 1980.
- Nuffield Place between Wallingford & Nettelbed. Home of car magnate Lord Nuffield until his death in 1963.
- Pendon Museum of Miniature Landscape & Transport, Long Wittenham - Recreates in miniature the English countryside and railways of the
1930's
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