Discover History & Heritage in Reading

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   Reading Museum

   Address

   Blagrave Street, READING, Berkshire, RG1 1QH

   Telephone

   0118 937 3400

   READING

   Situated in Reading’s Victorian Town Hall, the Museum tells the story of Reading from its Saxon beginnings to the high-tech town it is today. Explore ten galleries of historic and artistic objects. Discover archaeology from Roman Silchester and…

   

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   Silchester Roman City walls and Amphitheatre

   Address

   Mortimer West End, Silchester, READING, Berkshire, RG7 2HP

   Silchester, READING

   Silchester, 12 miles south of Reading, has its origins as Calleva, a centre of the Iron Age Atrebates tribe from the late 1st century BC. After the Roman conquest of AD 43 it became the large and important town of Calleva Atrebatum. Unlike most…

   

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   Church of Our Lady and St Anne

   Address

   2 South View Avenue, Caversham, READING, Berkshire, RG4 5AB

   READING

   Built 1902-21, it includes a shrine chapel, re-designed between 1954-58 to include the external squint on South View Avenue for observance by passers-by. This has a large 500-year old oak statue of Our Lady and Child. The shrine was redecorated in…

   

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