www.wallingfordmuseum.org.uk

PLACES TO VISIT

• Why not combine your visit to the Museum with one of our partner sites in the Days Out around Wallingford & the Wittenhams initiative. To see a special Map of all five attractions, visit the Days Out website by clicking here - it will give you a brief introduction and photos as well as links to each attraction's website. Alternatively, details of the attractions are below.

• The Cholsey & Wallingford Railway operates heritage diesel and occasionally steam trains on the Wallingford 'Bunk' line at certain weekends and Bank Holidays. For details of their timetable and special attractions, go to http://www.cholsey-wallingford-railway.com/
   

• Not far from Wallingford is the internationally famous Pendon Museum where they aim to recapture, in detailed and colourful miniature, scenes showing the beauty of the English countryside as it used to be in the years around 1930. You can watch a fascinating collection of model trains go by on the Dartmoor Scene, or spend hours taking in the detail of the model village in the Vale Scene. For details and some stunning photos, visit their website at http://www.pendonmuseum.com/index.jsp
   

• Another nearby attraction is Project Timescape, owned by the Northmoor Trust. The Trust promotes conservation through exemplary land management, education and land science and owns the Long Wittenham Nature Reserve, including Wittenham Clumps and other lovely woodland walks. Project Timescape is their exciting new Visitor Centre where you can experience life in the past through hands-on activities, get face-to-face with real Iron Age and Roman skeletons and learn about the changing landscape. The Project Timescape website is http://www.projecttimescape.co.uk/ and the special events organised by Northmoor Trust can be found at http://www.northmoortrust.co.uk/
   

• Completing the quintet of historical attractions within a few miles of Wallingford is the Dorchester Abbey Museum. The Museum has displays in the Abbey, notably the newly opened Cloister Gallery, and in the Old School in the adjoining Abbey Guest House. The Cloister Gallery display, described as the best of its kind in the country, tells the story of the Abbey through an interpreted collection of carved and moulded medieval stonework. The displays and artefacts in the Abbey Guest House pick out special features of the village of Dorchester-on-Thames and its environs, both past and present. The Abbey itself is also well worth a visit. Follow this link for further details: http://www.dorchester-abbey.org.uk/museum.htm
   

• There's a wealth of information about more than 3,000 Museums, Galleries and Heritage sites in the UK at The 24 Hour Museum on http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk
   

OTHER USEFUL LINKS

• A local web-site, unconnected with the Museum or TWHAS, which has an impressive amount of information about the history of Wallingford (and links to other sources) is the Wallingford History Gateway at http://uk.geocities.com/david.hemming1@btinternet.com/history
   

• The Wallingford Burh to Borough Project is a long-term research project being undertaken jointly by the Leicester, Exeter & Oxford in conjunction with TWHAS/Wallingford Museum. For the latest progress, visit http://www.le.ac.uk/ar/njc10/wallingford_project/index.htm  Note that there are a number of problems with the site - truncated lines, photos obscuring text and wrong links - a PDF file of all the pages (including some which are unreachable on the web-site) is to be found at
  http://www.le.ac.uk/archaeology/research/projects/wallingford/documents/wallingfordweb2006-b.pdf
  Obviously this may not be updated if and when the website is.
   

• Wallingford Town Council's website has information about the historic town of Wallingford and its facilities, including places to visit in and around the town, clubs, organisations and societies together with reports of what the town council is doing - visit  http://www.wallingfordtown.co.uk
   

• Local history publishers Pie Powder Press has a web-site at http://www.piepowder.co.uk. Husband and wife team, Judy & Stuart Dewey (Curator & Director of Wallingford Museum), have been publishing books on subjects of local historical interest since 1985 (many written by themselves) and now you can browse their catalogue on-line and order by e-mail if you can't get to the Museum Shop or to a bookshop in Wallingford.
   

• South Oxfordshire Archaeology Group (SOAG) brings together individuals who are interested in archaeology, to inform, encourage research, stimulate further interest and enthusiasm, and generally act as a forum for archaeology in South Oxfordshire. More details on their website at http://www.soagarch.org.uk/index.html
   

• Thames Travel is the local bus operator: for timetables click on
  http://www.thames-travel.co.uk/timetables.htm
   

• For details of some local places to stay follow this link http://www.bedandbreakfasts.co.uk/propertysearch.asp?location=Wallingford+Museum
  For a wider search (eg places in the Oxford area) use the town search on the same site: http://www.bedandbreakfasts.co.uk