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The Best Attractions In Aston Rowant

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Waddesdon Manor

Avebury Stone Circle

Blenheim Palace

Hawk Conservancy Trust

Sudeley Castle

Stonehenge

Aston Rowant is a village and civil parish about 4 1⁄2 miles south of Thame in South Oxfordshire, England. The parish includes the villages of Aston Rowant and Kingston Blount, and adjoins Buckinghamshire to the southeast. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 793.The Lower Icknield Way passes through the parish southeast of the village. Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve, on the Chiltern escarpment, is partly in the parish.
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The Best Attractions In Aston Rowant

1. Aston Rowant Discovery Trail Aston Rowant
2. Hawk Conservancy Trust Weyhill
The Hawk Conservancy Trust is a bird park and conservation charity that cares for and displays birds of prey. It is located in Weyhill, Hampshire, England, near to the A303 road and the town of Andover. Founded as a zoo by local farmer Reg Smith and his wife Hilary, the park was incorporated as the Hawk Conservancy Trust in 2002. It is also the site of the National Bird of Prey Hospital, a veterinary hospital that takes in injured birds of prey.
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3. Stonehenge Amesbury
Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, 2 miles west of Amesbury. It consists of a ring of standing stones, with each standing stone around 13 feet high, 7 feet wide and weighing around 25 tons. The stones are set within earthworks in the middle of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds.Archaeologists believe it was constructed from 3000 BC to 2000 BC. The surrounding circular earth bank and ditch, which constitute the earliest phase of the monument, have been dated to about 3100 BC. Radiocarbon dating suggests that the first bluestones were raised between 2400 and 2200 BC, although they may have been at the site as early as 3000 BC.One of the most famous landmarks in the United Kingdom, Stoneheng...
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4. Waddesdon Manor Waddesdon
Waddesdon Manor is a country house in the village of Waddesdon, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the Aylesbury Vale, 6.6 miles west of Aylesbury. The Grade I listed house was built in the Neo-Renaissance style of a French château between 1874 and 1889 for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild as a weekend residence for grand entertaining and as a setting for his collection. The last member of the Rothschild family to own Waddesdon was James de Rothschild . He bequeathed the house and its contents to the National Trust. It is now managed by the Rothschild Foundation chaired by Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild. It is one of the National Trust's most visited properties, with over 467,000 visitors annually. Waddesdon Manor won Visit England's Large Visitor Attraction of the Year ca...
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5. Avebury Stone Circle Avebury
Avebury is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, in southwest England. One of the best known prehistoric sites in Britain, it contains the largest megalithic stone circle in the world. It is both a tourist attraction and a place of religious importance to contemporary pagans. Constructed over several hundred years in the Third Millennium BC, during the Neolithic, or New Stone Age, the monument comprises a large henge with a large outer stone circle and two separate smaller stone circles situated inside the centre of the monument. Its original purpose is unknown, although archaeologists believe that it was most likely used for some form of ritual or ceremony. The Avebury monument is a part of a larger prehistoric landscape con...
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6. Blenheim Palace Woodstock
Blenheim & Woodstock was a railway station constructed in the neoclassical style which served the town of Woodstock and Blenheim Palace in the English county of Oxfordshire. The station, as well as the line, was constructed by the Duke of Marlborough and was privately run until 1897 when it became part of the Great Western Railway. The number of trains serving the station was cut in the late 1930s, and again in 1952 down to only six trains a day. The last train ran on 27 February 1954 adorned with a wreath. The station building was initially converted into a garage and petrol station. Then the forecourt of the site was no longer used as a petrol station, but for used car sales only with a building company using some of the land behind the station. There were proposals for demolishing the b...
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7. Sudeley Castle Winchcombe
Sudeley Castle is located in the Cotswolds near Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England. The present structure was built in the 15th century and may have been on the site of a 12th-century castle. The castle has a notable garden, which is designed and maintained to a very high standard. The chapel, St. Mary's Sudeley, is the burial place of Queen Catherine Parr , the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, and contains her marble tomb. Unusually for a castle chapel, St Mary's of Sudeley is part of the local parish of the Church of England. Sudeley is also one of the few castles left in England that is still a residence. As a result, the castle is only open to visitors on specific dates, and private family quarters are closed to the public. It is a Grade I listed building, and recognised as an internat...
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Aston Rowant Videos

Watlington Historic Market Town Oxfordshire

The Charming Market Town of Watlington is near the Ancient Icknield Way.
. Watlington still has a traditional Butchers and even a Fish & Chip Shop. One curious thing is that The main Church is not in the town centre. A local told me it was because Watlington had moved its centre long ago. There are three pubs, The Fat Fox Inn, The hidden in the backstreets Chequers and the Chiltern Facing Carriers Arms.At the heart of Watlington is the Watlington Memorial Club, and hidden behind it a treasure of sports facilities this can be seen in the video.

Watlington Station closed June 1957 is curiously quite far outside town but still exists but is now totally overgrown. You can also see a 270 foot tall triangle cut into the chalk that is believed to have been undertaken in 1764 on the orders of Edward Horne of Greenfield Manor in order to give the impression that the Norman church in St Leonard had a spire, when viewed from his home. There is also now an annual Watlington 10k run for those who don't mind hills!

Tring Park - Hertfordshire - England

A short video from Tring park, Hertfordshire, England, Shot with a DJI P3.

Always fly to your local laws...

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Nothing (Bonus Track) by Kai Engel

Mysterious Shirburn Castle Near Watlington, Oxfordshire

Stop Press: Another film is being turned at Shirburn a huge amount of equipment & lighting but I don't know what movie yet. (26Feb16)

Shirburn Castle is owned by the Macclesfield Family, it was occupied until 2004 by the 9th Earl of Macclesfield. It is currently empty. It is possible to visit the Historic Church during working hours but you need to obtain a key from the Beechwood Estate. Shirburn Church is still consecrated with occasional services. You cannot see the castle in this video but rather the Gatehouse and the Many outbuildings. The castle which you can see on Google Maps (Satellite) is a fine square moated and turreted castle. A fortified manor house built in 1378 in brick with four towers and a gatehouse and surrounded by a moat.

Shirburn Castle appeared in the Inspector Morse 1992 episode Happy Families as the home of the Balcombes. There is currently filming going on at Shirburn (Oct 2012) for Hercule Poirot and in a little while for Miss Marple.

There seems to be lots of construction work going on at the moment but I don't know what they are doing (Oct 2013). They are doing filming as I drive by at night I can see huge lights may be simulating a fire.

(This is nothing to do with the better known Sherborne Castle Dorset)

Brad Pitt will be playing the part of a tank commander in a new film called Fury, which is set to be filmed at Bovingdon Airfield. The film will also star Transformers actor, Shia LeBeouf. Crews are currently building a German village set. They are also filming at Shirburn Castle (see comment below). In the news today: .

The last remaining working German Tiger tank was restored by experts at the Tank Museum in Bovington, Dorset, where it is usually on display will be used for filming at Shirburn Castle.

Shirburn has one other side road which leads down to Mafeking Row which probably dates most of the Shirburn Castle complex to the Boer War and has been in steady decline since.

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Scotsmans Chiltern Surge | The Cathedrals Express - 9th June 2017

For the second time in a week, Flying Scotsman would run a Cathedrals Express circular from London Paddington to Victoria via the Chiltern Mainline, Oxford and the Great Western Mainline.
60103 was once a familiar site, as were many other mainline performers along the Chiltern line running such trains as BR's infamous Stratford Luncheons of the 1980's. However, with the Chiltern line becoming ever busier as a primary mainline to between the UK's two largest cities, paths for such tours are increasingly difficult to come by, making Scotsmans circular a rare one.
First, 60103 is seen powering away from the speed restriction at High Wycombe up the gradient through Saunderton. Unfortunately, in order to keep time, the 37 on the back was giving a mighty shove, but didn't dampen the effect on the noise produced by the A3. A second shot was due along the newly opened Bicester to Oxford mainline, however congestion along roads near Wycombe and the M40 meant that I settled with Islip where I arrived just as Scotsman burst through the station. Finally, the Express is seen at South Stoke sweeping along the GWML on its way back to the capital.
I was planning to get the second, evening circular through the Surrey Hills, but having torn a muscle the night before during training, I was finding it increasingly uncomfortable to drive and opted for A&E instead of the Surrey Hills...

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