English Heritage sites near Gaydon Parish

Porth Hellick Down Burial Chamber

PORTH HELLICK DOWN BURIAL CHAMBER

1000 miles from Gaydon Parish

A large and imposing Scillonian Bronze Age entrance grave, with kerb, inner passage and burial chamber all clearly visible.

Halliggye Fogou

HALLIGGYE FOGOU

1000 miles from Gaydon 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

INNISIDGEN LOWER AND UPPER BURIAL CHAMBERS

1000 miles from Gaydon 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

HARRY'S WALLS

1000 miles from Gaydon Parish

An unfinished artillery fort, built above St Mary's Pool harbour in 1552-53.

Garrison Walls

GARRISON WALLS

1000 miles from Gaydon 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

CROMWELL'S CASTLE

1000 miles from Gaydon 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 Gaydon Parish

Gaydon with Chadshunt - St. Giles

Pubs in Gaydon Parish

Gaydon Inn

Banbury Road, Gaydon, CV35 0HA

This historic inn was a classic roadside pub originally providing accommodation for those embarked on long stagecoach journeys; these trips must have been quite eventful in the late 18th century when a band of robbers from Culworth in North...
Malt Shovel

Church Road, Gaydon, CV35 0ET
(01926) 641221
maltshovelinngaydon.co.uk

The Malt Shovel is a much altered building made of Hornton Stone, an ironstone found nearby on the Burton Dassett Hills. The first reference to the pub as an unnamed beer house was in 1849 when Edward Neale was running it. It was first list...