Monthly Archives: February 2011

The Tent is a huge sumptious marquees in the Cloister Garden behind the Abbey with an adjoining refreshment tent serving tea, coffee, cake and light lunches

Willoughby House is at 73 High Street, a short five minute walk from the Abbey.  Please enter via the driveway just past 75 High Street – the entrance will be signposted.  The kitchen has recently been returned to the full-height medieval structure showing the original timber framing.  It is one of three remaining medieval kitchens …

Dorchester Village Hall is on Queen Street just a short walk from the Abbey.  It is an excellent spacious venue with a sprung wooden floor – ideal for dancing!

The Iron Age fort on Wittenham Clumps dominates a landscape settled since remotest antiquity. To the south, in the Berkshire Downs, is Churn Nob, and here, in 635AD the missionary Bishop Birinus, sent from Rome by Pope Honorius I, preached to Cynegils, King of Wessex. To the north, enclosed between the River Thames and its …