English Heritage sites near Aston Rowant Parish
ABINGDON COUNTY HALL MUSEUM
14 miles from Aston Rowant 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.
NORTH HINKSEY CONDUIT HOUSE
15 miles from Aston Rowant Parish
Roofed conduit for Oxford's first water mains, constructed during the early 17th century.
BERKHAMSTED CASTLE
17 miles from Aston Rowant Parish
Visit the substantial remains of a strong and important motte and bailey castle dating from the 11th to 13th centuries, with surrounding walls, ditches and earthworks.
NORTH LEIGH ROMAN VILLA
23 miles from Aston Rowant Parish
The remains of a large, well built Roman courtyard villa. The most important feature is a nearly complete mosaic tile floor, patterned in reds and browns.
SILCHESTER ROMAN CITY WALLS AND AMPHITHEATRE
24 miles from Aston Rowant Parish
Originally a tribal centre of the Iron Age Atrebates, Silchester became the large and important Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum.
OLD GORHAMBURY HOUSE
24 miles from Aston Rowant Parish
The remains of a once immense mansion built in 1563-8 by Sir Nicholas Bacon, Queen Elizabeth’s Lord Keeper and visited by the queen on at least four occasions.
Churches in Aston Rowant Parish
Aston Rowant: St Peter & St Paul
Church Lane
Aston Rowant
Watlington
01844 352472
http://chinnorunitedchurches.co.uk
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Welcome to St Peter and St Paul Aston Rowant, which has stood at the heart of this community for over 800 years.
If you have not had the opportunity to do so before, attend a service and please do stay on for refreshments so that we can say hello. We have some books and toys for children, which you are welcome to use, just ask if you don’t know where to find them.
You should find plenty of information in the porch, which will give you an idea of what’s going on in the Parish.
The regular services at this church are at 10:am on Sundays:
On 1st Sundays there is a Non – Eucharistic family orientated service. This service lasts approx. 40 minutes and includes songs and hymns, readings, a short address, and prayers. This service is easily accessible for very small children.
On 2nd, 3rd and 4th Sundays there is usually a service of Holy Communion.
On 5th Sundays there is a united parish service.
Our communion services are open to all, and children are very welcome to attend, to get involved if they can, and to receive a blessing if they are not yet communicant members of the church.
There are many opportunities to be involved in the life of the church; in preparing the church for worship, welcoming, singing or other musical accompaniment, reading, leading prayer and taking offerings on behalf of the people to the alter, making refreshments, or working in the churchyard. Please let one of the ministers or church wardens know if you would like to get involved in any away.
Alternatively you are very welcome to ‘be’, coming and going as you wish. You should find the church open daily in daylight hours.
Pubs in Aston Rowant Parish
Cherry Tree
Traditional village pub which is modernly furnished. Very close to Junction 6 of the M40. Has en-suite B&B accomodation. Very friendly labrador greets all guests. Locally valued therefore listed as an Asset of Community Value.
Red Lion
Pub may have been called just 'The Lion', and it seems to have closed a long time ago. A planning reference to 'The Lion' in 1953 has it as residential, and it was definitely recorded as a 'de-licensed beer house' in a later planning applic...
Royal Oak
Royal Oak, Kingston Blount
Shoulder Of Mutton
Shoulder Of Mutton, Kingston Blount