St. Helen Without
St Helen Without is a civil parish in the Vale of White Horse district in the English county of Oxfordshire.
St Helen Without is a civil parish in the Vale of White Horse district in the English county of Oxfordshire. In 1974 it was transferred from Berkshire. It is immediately west of Abingdon and includes the villages of Dry Sandford and Shippon. A large part of the parish is occupied by Dalton Barracks and its associated airfield. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 2,623. The parish was created by the Local Government Act 1894, by the division of the parish of Abingdon St. Helen. The part inside Abingdon Municipal Borough became part of Abingdon parish, whilst that part outside became St. Helen Without. It became part of the Abingdon Rural District of Berkshire in 1894, and then part of the Vale of White Horse in Oxfordshire under the Local Government Act 1972.
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Worth seeing in and around St. Helen Without
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.
- 01Abingdon-on-Thames
Abingdon-on-Thames, commonly known as Abingdon, is a historic market town and civil parish on the River Thames in the Vale of the White Horse district of Oxfordshire, England. The historic county town of Berkshire, the area was occupied from the early to middle Iron Age and the remains of a late Iron Age and Roman defensive enclosure lies below the town centre.
3.1 km · market town in Vale of White Horse, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Abingdon Abbey
Abingdon Abbey was a Benedictine monastery in Abingdon-on-Thames in the modern county of Oxfordshire in the United Kingdom. Situated near to the River Thames, it was founded in c.
3.4 km · Grade I listed abbey in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03St Nicolas' Church
The Church of Saint Nicolas is a Church of England parish church in Abingdon in the English county of Oxfordshire.
3.1 km · church in Abingdon in the English District of Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04FitzHarris Castle
FitzHarris Castle was a medieval castle located near Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England.
2.7 km · castle in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05St Helen's Church, Abingdon
St Helen's Church is a Church of England parish church in Abingdon on the bank of the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England. The church is thought to occupy the site of the Anglo-Saxon Helenstowe Nunnery.
3.2 km · church in Abingdon on Thames, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Jarn Mound
Jarn Mound is a mound on Boars Hill which was completed in 1931. It was commissioned by Sir Arthur Evans to provide and preserve the view of the "dreaming spires" of Oxford and the surroundings which the poet Matthew Arnold had immortalised in his poem Thyrsis in 1865.
3.3 km · artificial hill in Oxfordshire, England · Wikipedia - 07Abingdon County Hall Museum
Abingdon County Hall Museum is a local museum in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England. The museum is run by Abingdon Town Council and supported by Abingdon Museum Friends, a registered charity.
3.1 km · Local Authority Museum in South East England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 08Dry Sandford Pit
Dry Sandford Pit is a 4.2-hectare former sand quarry and now a biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Abingdon-on-Thames in Oxfordshire. It is a Geological Conservation Review site and it is managed as a nature reserve by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.
800 m · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 09Our Lady and St Edmund's Church, Abingdon
Our Lady and St Edmund's Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England. It was built in 1857, designed by William Wardell and George Goldie and paid for by Sir George Bowyer, 7th Baronet in the Gothic Revival style.
3 km · church in Abingdon-on-Thames, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 10Denman College
Denman, formally Denman College, was a residential adult education college centred on what was Marcham Park at Marcham in the English county of Oxfordshire. Founded by the National Federation of Women’s Institutes in 1948, Denman offered day schools and residential courses in cookery, craft and lifestyle, as well a variety of events, conferences and weddings.
3.2 km · adult education college in England · Wikipedia
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Getting to St. Helen Without
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 64 km · London Luton (LTN), 68 km · Birmingham (BHX), 90 km
- London → St. Helen Without84 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £9–12
- Luton, Luton → St. Helen Without65 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £8–10
- Birmingham, West Midlands → St. Helen Without97 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £12–16
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- Get inOxford Airport (OXF) at Kidlington is used mainly for private and charter aircraft and has only intermittently had scheduled airline flights; it is useful only if you fly your own plane, or are able to charter a small aircraft.
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