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TOURISM INFORMATION
We'll be building up a list of places of interest local to The Broad Face that registered users can rate. This will help visitors to the area find the best places to go and might even provide some inspiration for us locals too. If you want more information on any of these, why not pop in and see us - we might have some further literature, advice or even discount tickets for some of them.
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 Abingdon Abbey
At the time of its dissolution the Benedictine abbey of St Mary at Abingdon was the sixth wealthiest monastery in England. The Abbey was a vast complex of buildings, courtyards, gardens and orchards. The two groups of buildings which survive are only a small fragment of this once grand establishment. The Abbey Gateway faces the Market Place and is flanked by St Nicholas Church and the former St John''s Hospital. These are now under the care of The Vale of White Horse District Council. A second group, cared for by the Friends of Abingdon, and situated by the Millstream in Thames Street, consists of the Bakehouse, Checker Hall, Checker and Long Gallery.
Website http://www.friendsofabingdon.org.uk/newabbeyroot.h Rating:12 people rated this attraction as 5 stars Add your rating below: |
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 Abingdon County Hall Museum
The Museum is now closed until Spring 2012 Website http://www.abingdonmuseum.org.uk/ Rating:10 people rated this attraction as 5 stars Add your rating below: |
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 Ashmolean Museum
The present Ashmolean was created in 1908 by combining two ancient Oxford institutions: the University Art Collection and the original Ashmolean Museum. The older partner in this merger, the University Art Collection, was based for many years in what is now the Upper Reading Room in the Bodleian Library. The collection began modestly in the 1620s with a handful of portraits and curiosities displayed in a small room on the upper floor. In 1636 and 1657, Archbishop Laud and Ralph Freke added notable collections of coins and medals, later installed in a strong room of their own and now incorporated into the Ashmolean coin collection. The objects of curiosity included Guy Fawkes’ lantern and a sword said to have been given by the pope to Henry VIII, both now in the Ashmolean, as well as a number of more exotic items, including Jacob’s Coat of Many Colours, long since lost. However, as there was a museum for curiosities of this kind in the University Anatomy Theatre, objects like this tended to go there or to the Ashmolean, after it opened in 1683, leaving the Bodleian gallery to develop as a museum of art Website Rating:17 people rated this attraction as 5 stars Add your rating below: |
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 Kingston Bagbuize House & Gardens
Just visiting Oxfordshire or are you fortunate enough to live here? Either way, you’ll find something newly flowering and flourishing within the Gardens. Whether you’re on a group visit, a school trip, a family excursion or a romantic break, Kingston Bagpuize House has something that will appeal to all. Website http://www.kingstonbagpuizehouse.com/ Rating:12 people rated this attraction as 5 stars Add your rating below: |
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 Northmoor Trust
The Northmoor Trust is based in South Oxfordshire and manages an estate of 300 hectares, including Little Wittenham Nature Reserve and Wittenham Clumps, a conservation farm, a woodland dedicated to forestry research and Project Timescape, the Trust's visitor centre. Website http://www.northmoortrust.co.uk Rating:9 people rated this attraction as 5 stars Add your rating below: |
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 Oxford University Museum of Natural History
The Oxford University Museum of Natural History houses the University''s scientific collections of zoological, entomological and geological specimens. The Museum itself is a Grade 1 listed building, renowned for its spectacular neo-Gothic architecture. Among its most famous features are the Oxfordshire dinosaurs, the dodo, and the swifts in the tower. Website Rating:6 people rated this attraction as 5 stars Add your rating below: |
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 Pendon Museum
At Pendon we recapture scenes showing the beauty of the English countryside as it was in the Inter-War years. We do this through the medium of detailed, accurate and colourful models constructed to the most exacting standards. Website Rating:10 people rated this attraction as 5 stars Add your rating below: |
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 Priory Cottages
Former monastic buildings, now converted into two houses. Properties were gifted by the famous Ferguson's Gang Website http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-priorycotta Rating:13 people rated this attraction as 5 stars Add your rating below: |
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 University of Oxford Botanic Garden
Welcome to the University of Oxford Botanic Garden. We are often asked how a botanic garden differs from other types of gardens. Botanic gardens are collections of plants that are grown for purposes other than purely aesthetic reasons – but in Oxford Botanic Garden we do try to arrange the plants in attractive, sympathetic and exciting ways. Many gardeners come here to seek inspiration. In the beds and borders you may find new plants that would be perfect in your garden at home and partly for this reason we strive to label clearly every plant in the Garden. Website http://www.botanic-garden.ox.ac.uk/ Rating:6 people rated this attraction as 5 stars Add your rating below: |
