English Heritage sites near Compton Parish
DONNINGTON CASTLE
7 miles from Compton 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
11 miles from Compton 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.
SILCHESTER ROMAN CITY WALLS AND AMPHITHEATRE
13 miles from Compton Parish
Originally a tribal centre of the Iron Age Atrebates, Silchester became the large and important Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum.
UFFINGTON CASTLE - WHITE HORSE AND DRAGON HILL
15 miles from Compton 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
15 miles from Compton 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.
NORTH HINKSEY CONDUIT HOUSE
16 miles from Compton Parish
Roofed conduit for Oxford's first water mains, constructed during the early 17th century.
Churches in Compton Parish
Compton: St Mary & St Nicholas
Aldworth Road
Compton
Newbury
07467 611194
http://www.hermitage-team.org.uk
An attractive and welcoming church with a congregation of all ages in this thriving village just below the Ridgeway.