Perborough Castle, Blewbury

Name: Perborough Castle
Address: Blewbury, United Kingdom

#2 among attractions in Blewbury

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Perborough Castle is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort located at Compton in Berkshire. The site covers approximately 14 acres, and lies on the chalky downs of West Berkshire. Archaeological evidence, from excavations in 1838, suggest that it was a lightly defended and perhaps a seasonally occupied site, containing no more than a few grain storage pits and slag pits, the extent of these being the obvious sign of continued occupation. ()

Coordinates: 51°29'52"N, 1°15'8"W

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Blewbury United Kingdom

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Perborough Castle – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Donnington Grove, Goring & Streatley Golf Club, The Living Rainforest, Cleeve Lock.

6.7 miSW
Golf, Gothic Revival architecture
Donnington Grove, Newbury and Thatcham
172 min walk • Donnington Grove is a Strawberry Hill Gothic mansion, now a hotel and country club, and associated Golf Course at Donnington in the civil parish of Shaw-cum-Donnington, near Newbury, in the English county of Berkshire. It is overlooked by Donnington Castle.
4.3 miNE
Golf
Goring & Streatley Golf Club, Goring and Streatley
109 min walk • Goring & Streatley Golf Club is a golf course in the village of Streatley, in the English county of Berkshire. It takes its name partly from that village, and partly from the adjoining village of Goring-on-Thames in the county of Oxfordshire. The course adjoins the National Trust properties of Lardon Chase, the Holies and Lough Down.
1.8 miSE
Nature and wildlife, Park, Zoo
The Living Rainforest, Newbury and Thatcham
45 min walk • The Living Rainforest is an indoor greenhouse tropical rainforest located in Hampstead Norreys in Berkshire, England. It is an ecological centre, educational centre and visitor attraction consisting of three glasshouses, operated and run by the Trust for Sustainable Living.
5.6 miNE
Bridge
Cleeve Lock, Goring-on-Thames
142 min walk • Cleeve Lock is a lock on the River Thames, in Oxfordshire, England. It is located just upstream of Goring and Streatley villages, on the eastern side of the river within the village of Goring.
5.4 miE
Bridge
Gatehampton Railway Bridge, Goring-on-Thames
139 min walk • Gatehampton Railway Bridge, otherwise referred to as Gatehampton Viaduct, is a railway bridge carrying the Great Western Main Line over the River Thames in Lower Basildon, Berkshire, England.
5.3 miSE
Zoo, Farm, Park
Bucklebury Farm Park
135 min walk • Bucklebury Farm Park is an animal park located in Bucklebury in Berkshire, England. The Farm Park consists of mostly Animals, Play equipment, Deer and Woody's Cafe which opened in 2013. Bucklebury Farm Park also houses a revolutionary Jumping Pillow which is one of only few in the UK.
5.7 miSW
Park
Snelsmore Common, Newbury and Thatcham
145 min walk • Snelsmore Common is a 104-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Newbury in Berkshire. It is owned by West Berkshire Council and managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.
5.1 miW
Memorial
Leckhampstead War Memorial, Newbury and Thatcham
130 min walk • Leckhampstead War Memorial is a Grade II listed war memorial in Leckhampstead, Berkshire, which commemorates 89 local men who served in the First World War, including 17 war dead. The names of two more war casualties were added after the Second World War.
4.2 miSE
Park
Ashampstead Common, Hartslock
108 min walk • Ashampstead Common is a common in the English county of Berkshire, within the civil parish of Ashampstead. The common lies north of the M4 motorway, near to Ashampstead, Lower Basildon and Yattendon.
3.6 miS
Forts and castles
Grimsbury Castle
91 min walk • Grimsbury Castle is an Iron Age "multiple enclosure" Hill Fort comprising a large circular encampment situated on a high hill. It is situated within Grimsbury Wood, between Cold Ash and Hermitage, in the county of Berkshire.
5.4 miN
Archaeological site
Blewburton Hill
137 min walk • Blewburton Hill is the site of an Iron Age hillfort located in Oxfordshire, in the southeast of England. It was a univallate hillfort. The area is mostly farmland with some small areas of wooded copse to the south and the northeast.