Faringdon Folly Tower, Faringdon

Name: Faringdon Folly Tower
Address: Folly Path, Faringdon, SN7 7AQ, United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 845 475 8386

#2 among attractions in Faringdon

Historical place, View point, Forts and castles

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Faringdon Folly Tower (address: Folly Path) is a place located in Faringdon (England kingdom) and belongs to the category of historical place, view point, forts and castles.

It is situated at an altitude of 515 feet, and its geographical coordinates are 51°39'32"N latitude and 1°34'17"W longitude.

Among other places and attractions worth visiting in the area are: Great Coxwell Barn (history museum, 52 min walk), Badbury Hill (forts and castles, 60 min walk), Radcot Bridge (bridge, 63 min walk).

Coordinates: 51°39'32"N, 1°34'17"W

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Folly PathFaringdon SN7 7AQ United Kingdom

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+44 845 475 8386

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Faringdon Folly Tower – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Trout Inn, Buscot House, Dragon Hill, St Mary's Church.

5.1 miNW
Nightlife
Trout Inn, Lechlade
130 min walk • The Trout Inn is a pub next to the River Thames at Lechlade in the English county of Gloucestershire. The Grade II listed stone building consists of two two-storey structures, one late medieval and the other added in the 18th century.
3.4 miW
Historical place, Park, History museum
Buscot House, Faringdon
88 min walk • Buscot Park is a country house at Buscot near the town of Faringdon in Oxfordshire within the historic boundaries of Berkshire. It was built in an austere neoclassical style between 1780 and 1783 for Edward Loveden Loveden. It remained in the family until sold in 1859 to Robert Tertius Campbell, an Australian.
5.5 miS
Archaeological site, View point
Dragon Hill
140 min walk • Dragon Hill is a small hillock immediately below the Uffington White Horse on the border of the civil parishes of Uffington and Woolstone in the English county of Oxfordshire. In 1974 it was transferred from Berkshire.
4.9 miN
Church, Romanesque architecture
St Mary's Church, Bampton
124 min walk • The Church of Saint Mary the Virgin is the Church of England parish church of Bampton, West Oxfordshire. It is in the Archdeaconry of Dorchester in the Diocese of Oxford. The church was built in the 10th or 11th century as an Anglo-Saxon minster with a tower.
4.8 miSW
Cemetery
Westmill Woodland Burial Ground
123 min walk • Westmill Woodland Burial Ground is a green burial ground in the Vale of White Horse on the border of Oxfordshire with Wiltshire in southern England.
2.3 miW
Forts and castles
Badbury Hill
60 min walk • Badbury Hill is a hill in the civil parish of Great Coxwell near Faringdon in the English county of Oxfordshire. In 1974 it was transferred from Berkshire. The summit of the hill is the site of an Iron Age hill fort known as Badbury Camp. It is roughly circular in shape, most of which was levelled early in the 19th century.
5.6 miS
Historical place, Mysterious site, Sacred and religious sites
Blowing Stone, Wantage
143 min walk • The Blowing Stone is a perforated sarsen at grid reference SU32412 87083 in Kingston Lisle, which is in the traditional county of Berkshire, but is currently administered as part of Oxfordshire.
4.8 miE
Forts and castles
Cherbury Camp
123 min walk • Cherbury Camp is a multi-vallate hill fort-like earthwork, situated at grid reference SU374963, 1 mi to the north of the village of Charney Bassett in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.
5.7 miNE
Church
Cote Baptist Chapel
146 min walk • Cote Baptist Church stands in Shifford Road, Cote, 1 mile to the east of Aston and 4 miles to the east of Bampton, in Oxfordshire, England. It is a redundant Baptist chapel in the care of the Historic Chapels Trust, and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
2.4 miN
Bridge
Radcot Bridge
63 min walk • Radcot Bridge is a crossing of the Thames in England, south of Radcot, Oxfordshire, and north of Faringdon, Oxfordshire which is in the district of that county that was in Berkshire. It carries the A4095 road across the reach above Radcot Lock.
5.6 miS
Forts and castles
Hardwell Castle
142 min walk • Hardwell Castle or Hardwell Camp is an Iron Age valley fort in the civil parish of Compton Beauchamp in Oxfordshire.