Ardington and Lockinge, Wantage

#6 among attractions in Wantage

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Ardington and Lockinge are two civil parishes in the Vale of White Horse district, centred about 2 miles east of Wantage, Oxfordshire, that share a single parish council. The two parishes were part of Berkshire until 1974 when they were transferred to Oxfordshire. ()

Coordinates: 51°35'35"N, 1°22'37"W

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Ardington and Lockinge – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Vale and Downland Museum, Church of St Peter and St Paul, All Saints' Church, Champs Chapel Museum of East Hendred.

2.2 miW
Specialty museum, Museum, History museum
Vale and Downland Museum, Wantage
57 min walk • The Vale and Downland Museum is a local museum in the market town of Wantage, Oxfordshire, England. Its galleries present the cultural heritage of the Vale of White Horse region around Wantage. A Victorian kitchen, Iron Age skeleton and a bust of Sir John Betjeman are amongst its attractions, along with a cafe serving home-made food.
2.2 miW
Church
Church of St Peter and St Paul, Wantage
57 min walk • The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a Church of England parish church in Wantage, Oxfordshire. The church is a grade I listed building.
5.7 miNE
Church
All Saints' Church
147 min walk • The Church of All Saints, Sutton Courtenay is the Church of England parish church of Sutton Courtenay, England. Extant since at least the 12th century, the church has been Grade I listed since 1966. It is in the centre of the village, near the northeast corner of the village green.
1.8 miE
Museum
Champs Chapel Museum of East Hendred
45 min walk • The Champs Chapel Museum of East Hendred is a local village museum housed in the former Chapel of Jesus of Bethlehem, built in 1453 by Carthusian monks and now commonly called Champs Chapel, at East Hendred in the English county of Oxfordshire.
3.8 miSW
Forts and castles
Segsbury Camp
98 min walk • Segsbury Camp or Segsbury Castle is an Iron Age hill fort on the crest of the Berkshire Downs, near the Ridgeway above Wantage, in the Vale of White Horse district of Oxfordshire, England.
6.2 miNE
Bridge
Culham Bridge, Abingdon
159 min walk • Culham Bridge is a medieval bridge crossing a present backwater of the River Thames in England at Culham, Oxfordshire, near the town of Abingdon.
2.1 miW
Monuments and statues
Statue of Alfred the Great, Wantage
55 min walk • The statue of Alfred the Great, in the Wantage market place, was sculpted by Count Gleichen, a relative of Queen Victoria's, and unveiled on 14 July 1877 by the Prince and Princess of Wales.
2.9 miSE
Museum
Atlas Computer Laboratory, Blewbury
75 min walk • The Atlas Computer Laboratory on the Harwell, Oxfordshire campus shared by the Harwell Laboratory was one of the major computer laboratories in the world, which operated between 1961 and 1975 to provide a service to British scientists at a time when powerful computers were not usually available.
2.4 miSE
Archaeological site
The Ridgeway
61 min walk • The Ridgeway is a ridgeway or ancient trackway described as Britain's oldest road. The section clearly identified as an ancient trackway extends from Wiltshire along the chalk ridge of the Berkshire Downs to the River Thames at the Goring Gap, part of the Icknield Way which ran...
6.1 miNW
Forts and castles
Cherbury Camp
156 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.
2.6 miSE
Archaeological site
Scutchamer Knob
66 min walk • Scutchamer Knob, also known as Cuckhamsley Hill and occasionally as Scotsman's Knob or Beacon Hill, is an early Iron Age round barrow on the Ridgeway National Trail at East Hendred Down in the English county of Oxfordshire.