English Heritage sites near East Ilsley Parish
DONNINGTON CASTLE
7 miles from East Ilsley 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
10 miles from East Ilsley 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.
UFFINGTON CASTLE - WHITE HORSE AND DRAGON HILL
12 miles from East Ilsley 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
13 miles from East Ilsley 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.
SILCHESTER ROMAN CITY WALLS AND AMPHITHEATRE
15 miles from East Ilsley Parish
Originally a tribal centre of the Iron Age Atrebates, Silchester became the large and important Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum.
NORTH HINKSEY CONDUIT HOUSE
15 miles from East Ilsley Parish
Roofed conduit for Oxford's first water mains, constructed during the early 17th century.
Churches in East Ilsley Parish
East Ilsley: St Mary
Church Hill
East Ilsley
Newbury
07467 611194
http://www.hermitage-team.org.uk
A beautiful Grade 1 listed church which stands above this picturesque, downland village.
Pubs in East Ilsley Parish
Crown & Horns
Compton Road, East Ilsley, RG20 7LH
(01635) 281545
crownandhorns.co.uk/
Swan
High Street, East Ilsley, RG20 7LF
None
theswaneastilsley.com/