English Heritage sites near Stanton Harcourt Parish
NORTH HINKSEY CONDUIT HOUSE
5 miles from Stanton Harcourt Parish
Roofed conduit for Oxford's first water mains, constructed during the early 17th century.
NORTH LEIGH ROMAN VILLA
6 miles from Stanton Harcourt 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.
MINSTER LOVELL HALL AND DOVECOTE
7 miles from Stanton Harcourt Parish
The extensive and picturesque ruins of a 15th century riverside manor house, including a fine hall, south-west tower, and complete dovecote nearby. The home of Richard III's henchman Lord Lovell.
ABINGDON COUNTY HALL MUSEUM
7 miles from Stanton Harcourt 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
15 miles from Stanton Harcourt 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
16 miles from Stanton Harcourt 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.
Churches in Stanton Harcourt Parish
Stanton Harcourt: St Michael
-Main Road
Stanton Harcourt
Witney
01865655692
http://lowerwindrushbenefice.org/
The Building This is a Grade 1 Listed building dating from c. 1130. It stands next to the complex of buildings of the mediaeval manor. It is cruciform Norman and Early English with a large, square tower with six bells. The church houses the mediaeval shrine of St Edburg of Bicester and contains the Perpendicular Harcourt Chapel with the monuments of the Harcourt family. Three phases of a major restoration programme have been completed
Pubs in Stanton Harcourt Parish
Harcourt Arms
Main Road, Stanton Harcourt, OX29 5RJ
(01865) 416516
theharcourtarms.com