Abbeys & priories · South East England
Cholsey Abbey
Cholsey Abbey — abbey in Cholsey, South Oxfordshire, England, UK.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 45 min–1.5 h
- Nearest railway station
- Cholsey · 0.9 km
- Family-friendly
- Limited wheelchair access
About
Cholsey Abbey is an abbey, priory, or monastic site in the United Kingdom. Records date its origin to AD 901. Wikidata describes it as: "abbey in Cholsey, South Oxfordshire, England, UK". Coordinates: 51.5788°, -1.1590°.
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Protected designations
- Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: North Wessex Downs
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
Cholsey Abbey was an Anglo-Saxon abbey in Cholsey in what is now the English county of Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire), which was founded in the mid-990s by King Æthelred the Unready on land which he had acquired from his mother, Ælfthryth. It was dedicated to Æthelred's half-brother, Edward the Martyr, and its first abbot was Germanus. It may have been sacked by the Vikings in 1006, and by the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066 it had disappeared.
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- Coordinates
- 51.5788, -1.1590
- County
- Oxfordshire
- District
- South Oxfordshire
- Parish
- Cholsey
- Postcode
- OX10 9PS
- Parliamentary constituency
- Didcot and Wantage
- Nearest railway station
- Cholsey — 0.9 km
Sources
- wikidata: Q5049627 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Cholsey Abbey (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Cholsey Abbey?
- Cholsey Abbey is in Oxfordshire, South-East England, United Kingdom (postcode OX10 9PS), in the parish of Cholsey.
- When was Cholsey Abbey built?
- Dates from the Anglo-Saxon period.
- Is Cholsey Abbey a protected site?
- Yes — Cholsey Abbey is part of the North Wessex Downs National Landscape (AONB).
- How do I get to Cholsey Abbey?
- The nearest railway station is Cholsey, about 0.9 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode OX10 9PS.