Ashleworth Ham

#4854 among destinations in the United Kingdom

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Ashleworth Ham is a 104.73-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest. It is a large area of grassland on the Severn floodplain, north of Ashleworth in Gloucestershire, England. It is registered as a Site of Special Scientific Interest and was notified in 1974 and renotified in 1985. Ashleworth Ham received this designation because it is one of three sites in the Severn Vale where migratory waterfowl winter. ()

Elevation: 30 ft a.s.l.Coordinates: 51°56'6"N, 2°14'43"W

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Nearby attractions include: Kingsholm Stadium, Jet Age Museum, Hillfield Gardens, St Oswald's Priory.

4.4 miS
Arenas and stadiums, Rugby, Sport venue
Kingsholm Stadium, Gloucester
112 min walk • Kingsholm Stadium is a rugby union stadium located in the Kingsholm area of Gloucester, England, and is the home stadium of Gloucester Rugby. The stadium has a capacity of 16,115. It is sometimes nicknamed 'Castle Grim' after the estate where the stadium is built.
4.1 miSE
Museum, Specialty museum
Jet Age Museum, Gloucester
104 min walk • The Jet Age Museum is the trading name of the Gloucestershire Aviation Collection, an all-volunteer, charitable organisation dedicated to the preservation of Gloucestershire's aviation heritage. The aviation museum is located on the north side of Gloucestershire Airport, between Gloucester and Cheltenham.
4.6 miS
Park
Hillfield Gardens, Gloucester
117 min walk • Hillfield Gardens is a public park on London Road, Gloucester, England. It houses several historical monuments. The description in December 2020 stated: "Now a Council-owned public park covering about 1.6 hectares, Highfield Gardens is supported by an active Friends group which organises annual events".
4.5 miS
Monastery, Monuments and statues
St Oswald's Priory, Gloucester
116 min walk • St Oswald's Priory was founded by Æthelflæd, daughter of Alfred the Great, and her husband Æthelred, ealdorman of Mercia, in the late 880s or the 890s. It appears to have been an exact copy of the Old Minster, Winchester It is a Grade I listed building.
3.2 miNE
Church
Odda's Chapel
81 min walk • Odda's Chapel is a former chantry chapel at Deerhurst, Gloucestershire. It is an 11th-century late Anglo-Saxon building, completed a decade before the Norman Conquest of England.
3.9 miSW
Church
St Oswald's Church, Gloucester
99 min walk • St Oswald's Church was an Anglican church in the village of Lassington and the civil parish of Highnam, Gloucestershire, England. Only the tower survived to the present day, and it is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
4.3 miNW
Church
Gadfield Elm Chapel
110 min walk • The Gadfield Elm Chapel near the village of Pendock in Worcestershire, England, is the oldest extant chapel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
3.3 miNE
Romanesque architecture, Church
Saint Mary
84 min walk • St Mary's Priory Church, Deerhurst, is the Church of England parish church of Deerhurst, Gloucestershire, England. Much of the church is Anglo-Saxon. It was built in the 8th century, when Deerhurst was part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia.
2.1 miS
Museum, Art gallery, Art museum
Nature in Art, Gloucester
55 min walk • Nature in Art is a museum and art gallery at Wallsworth Hall, Twigworth, Gloucester, England, dedicated exclusively to art inspired by nature in all forms, styles and media.
3.6 miS
Village, Park
Longford, Gloucester
92 min walk • Longford is a village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England. Although situated within two miles of Gloucester city centre, Longford parish falls within the jurisdiction of the Borough of Tewkesbury.
4.5 miS
Bridge
Westgate Galleria, Gloucester
115 min walk • The Westgate Galleria are grade II listed almshouses in Westgate Street, Gloucester, now used as a small shopping centre. The building dates from 1787-90 when it was built by William Price for the City of Gloucester on the former site of St Bartholomew's Hospital which had been founded in the early 12th century.