English Heritage sites near Shiplake Parish
PORTH HELLICK DOWN BURIAL CHAMBER
1000 miles from Shiplake Parish
A large and imposing Scillonian Bronze Age entrance grave, with kerb, inner passage and burial chamber all clearly visible.
HALLIGGYE FOGOU
1000 miles from Shiplake Parish
Roofed and walled in stone, this complex of passages is the largest and best-preserved of several mysterious underground tunnels associated with Cornish Iron Age settlements.
INNISIDGEN LOWER AND UPPER BURIAL CHAMBERS
1000 miles from Shiplake Parish
Two Bronze Age communal burial cairns of Scillonian type, with fine views. The upper cairn is the best preserved on the islands.
HARRY'S WALLS
1000 miles from Shiplake Parish
An unfinished artillery fort, built above St Mary's Pool harbour in 1552-53.
GARRISON WALLS
1000 miles from Shiplake Parish
You can enjoy a two-hour walk alongside the ramparts of these defensive walls and earthworks, dating from the 16th to 18th centuries.
CROMWELL'S CASTLE
1000 miles from Shiplake Parish
The castle stands guarding the lovely anchorage between Bryher and Tresco and is one of the few surviving Cromwellian fortifications in Britain.
Churches in Shiplake Parish
Shiplake: St Peter & St Paul
Church Lane
Shiplake
Reading
0118 940 3484
http://shiplakedunsdenharpsden.org.uk
Shiplake Church is an ancient church dating from 1229 and the Church where Alfred, Lord Tennyson married the Vicar's relative in 1850. It sits overlooking the Thames on a chalk escarpment, a mere 90 second walk from the Thames Path and is one of the churches included within the Oxford Diocese Thameside Pilgrim Way to be inaugurated in 2013.
The Church offers a blended mix of traditional and contemporary worship.
Pubs in Shiplake Parish
Baskerville
7 Station Road, Lower Shiplake, RG9 3NY
(0118) 940 3332
thebaskerville.com
Plough Shiplake
Reading Road, Shiplake, RG9 4BX
(0118) 940 3999
theploughshiplake.co.uk