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Attractions in White Horse Country

The Vale of White Horse offers a variety of attractions including museums, country houses and gardens as well as unique and historic landscapes.

Abingdon has a museum, abbey ruins and splendid churches. The Benedictine Abbey was founded in about 670 AD. It became extremely rich but was finally dissolved by Henry VIII in 1538.

Near Faringdon is Great Coxwell Barn which was built between 1300 and 1310. The author and poet William Morris described it as the finest piece of architecture in England.

The Wayland Smithy is a Neolithic long barrow, approximately 5,000 years old, located on the Ridgeway. In local legend Wayland, the Ango-Saxon smith god, would, unseen, shoe a horse for payment of a silver coin.

For more details visit the Houses and Gardens page.

For more details visit the Museums page.