THINGS TO SEE

Our main galleries include The Wallingford Story - a fascinating walk through time (with audio) from the Roman period, through the building of the Alfred's Saxon burh, to the Norman Conquest and the building of the royal castle (below left) which was to become one of the largest in the land.

There are features, too, on Wallingford's many medieval churches, the Priory, the coming of the Black Death, the Mayor and Corporation - and the Town Pillory towers above you!

In the Hutchinson Room (below) a series of interconnecting room sets including a shop, a pub, a workshop and a church. In these areas are displayed a changing range of objects from the 18th to 20th centuries, portraying every-day life in this Thames-side market town.

In addition, there are features on:

• Transport, including a splendid illuminated scale model of Wallingford Station and the River Thames including models of locks and weirs and the twenty-arch Wallingford Bridge.
   

• The Civil War, in which Wallingford Castle played a key role for the Royalist cause.
   

• Famous 18th century Judge Sir William Blackstone, author of the world-famous Commentaries on the Laws of England.
   

• Prehistoric and Roman finds including a Roman skeleton from an excavation in nearby Crowmarsh.
   

• Agatha Christie who lived for over 40 years in nearby Winterbrook and is buried in Cholsey Churchyard.
   

• Famous Victorian Artists, James Hayllar and his daughters and nearby neighbour George Dunlop Leslie.
   

• Regular changing special exhibitions on different aspects of the history and archaeology of Wallingford (see Latest News)

For details of other attractions within a few miles of Wallingford which you might like to combine with your Museum visit, click here.