Shaw-cum-Donnington
Shaw-cum-Donnington is a civil parish in West Berkshire, England, with all of its urban or suburban area immediately north of the largest town in the district, Newbury.
Shaw-cum-Donnington is a civil parish in West Berkshire, England, with all of its urban or suburban area immediately north of the largest town in the district, Newbury. It comprises the villages of Shaw and Donnington, and contains the partially ruined Donnington Castle, which has most of its various outside walls intact. The area is mostly green space but where developed is almost entirely residential with shops and cafés. It has housing immediately north of the town of Newbury.
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Worth seeing in and around Shaw-cum-Donnington
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Donnington Castle
Donnington Castle is a ruined medieval castle, situated in the small village of Donnington, just north of the town of Newbury in the English county of Berkshire. It was founded by Sir Richard Abberbury the Elder in 1386 and was bought by Thomas Chaucer before the castle was taken under royal control during the Tudor period.
1.7 km · ruined medieval castle in Berkshire, England · Wikipedia - 02Benham Park
Benham Park is a mansion in the English ceremonial county of Berkshire and district of West Berkshire. It is 2 miles west of Newbury within 500 metres of a junction of the A34 trunk road Newbury bypass outside the town side, in the Marsh Benham locality of Speen, a village within and outside the Newbury bypass.
3.8 km · Grade I listed country house in Speen, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Newbury Lock
Newbury Lock is a lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal in the town centre of Newbury, in the English county of Berkshire. It has a rise/fall of 3 ft 6 in, and is situated just upstream of Newbury Bridge.
1.7 km · lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal in Newbury, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04St Nicolas Church, Newbury
St Nicolas Church is the Church of England parish church of Newbury, Berkshire, and stands just south of the main bridge over the River Kennet, in the centre of the town. The Grade I listed building is chiefly remarkable for the consistency of its Perpendicular Gothic architectural style and its unusually large size for a parish church.
1.7 km · church building in West Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Guyer's Lock
Guyer's Lock is a lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal, between Kintbury and Newbury, Berkshire, England. It is a grade II listed building.
3 km · English canal lock · Wikipedia - 06Higg's Lock
Higg's Lock is a lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal, between Kintbury and Newbury, Berkshire, England. The lock has a rise/fall of 5 ft 10 in.
3.6 km · canal lock in Berkshire, England · Wikipedia - 07Widmead Lock
Widmead Lock is a lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal, between Newbury and Thatcham, Berkshire, England. Widmead Lock was built between 1718 and 1723 under the supervision of the engineer John Hore of Newbury.
3.9 km · canal lock in Berkshire, England · Wikipedia - 08Watermill Theatre
The Watermill Theatre is a producing theatre in Bagnor, Berkshire. It opened in 1967 in Bagnor Mill, a converted watermill on the River Lambourn.
2.7 km · theatre in Bagnor near Newbury, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Town Hall And Municipal Buildings
Newbury Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Place in Newbury, Berkshire, England. The building, which is the meeting place of Newbury Town Council, is a Grade II listed building.
1.7 km · town hall in Newbury, West Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Corn Exchange
The Corn Exchange is an events and concert venue located in the Market Place in Newbury, Berkshire, England. The structure, which was commissioned as a corn exchange and is now used as an events venue, is a Grade II listed building.
1.7 km · theatre and cinema in Newbury, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Shaw-cum-Donnington
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 60 km · London Luton (LTN), 83 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 84 km
- Stations
- Newbury railway station, 2 km · Newbury Racecourse railway station, 2 km · Newbury West Fields Halt railway station, 2.5 km
- London → Shaw-cum-Donnington83 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · £9–12
- Luton, Luton → Shaw-cum-Donnington80 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £11–14
- Bristol → Shaw-cum-Donnington89 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £9–12
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No local-transport research exists yet for Shaw-cum-Donnington
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Shaw-cum-Donnington. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Shaw-cum-Donnington is 24 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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