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	Pendon Museum [ Homepage ]
		At Pendon we 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.
		Pendon is enjoyed by people of all generations and with many different interests.
		Pendon Museum is building an ambitious model of the countryside of the Vale of the White Horse as it was in the 1930's.
	www.pendonmuseum.com /index.jsp (647 words)

	Pendon Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pendon Museum, located in Long Wittenham near Didcot, Oxfordshire, England, displays typical scenes on the Great Western Railway (GWR) of the 1920s.
		There is a nearly exact scale model of the Vale of the White Horse on one level, with a viaduct of the type designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the designer and builder of the GWR.
		Founded by the late Roye England, the layout is run a by group of volunteers, and is open to the public most weekends and holidays.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pendon_Museum (233 words)

	Pendon Museum [ Visiting Pendon ]
		Pendon Museum is approximately 8 miles from Oxford, and 5 miles from Abingdon.
		Pendon is a viewing experience with some exhibits positioned at high level, limiting viewing for small children and those in wheelchairs.
		Pendon Museum apologises for any problems this may cause but it is for the comfort and safety of all our visitors.
	www.pendonmuseum.com /about/visiting.html (517 words)

	Pendon Museum [ Latest news ]
		Pendon Museum will be open at weekends, Bank Holidays and on special occasions throughout 2007.
		A Pathe Pictorial that was shown in cinemas throughout the country in 1958 shows Roye cutting hair from a local young girl to use as thatch on one of his model buildings.
		It was donated to Pendon Museum and is normally on static display.
	www.pendonmuseum.com /about/latestnews.html (349 words)

	Pendon Museum [ Special Showings ]
		Viewing Pendon Museum takes 30-90 mins and requires walking and standing, we do have a chairlift to gain access to the 1st floor.
		The Museum is on two floors, and there is limited access to the upper floor Vale Scene, which includes the model village, for disabled visitors via a wheelchair lift.
		The Museum is at the west end of the High Street in the village of Long Wittenham about 3 miles north-north-east of Didcot, (at National Grid reference SU541 935).
	www.pendonmuseum.com /about/special.html (1010 words)

	It's A Small But Beautiful World At Pendon Museum - Bristol City Guide news
		Pendon Museum has always attracted a particular crowd – namely the model railway enthusiasts.
		There are three main scenes at Pendon – the Vale scene, the Dartmoor scene and the Madder Valley –; all of them ambitious projects of outstanding detail and research.
		Renaissance is the groundbreaking initiative to transform England's regional museums, led by MLA, the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council.
	www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /bristol/news/ART34063.html?ixsid= (1176 words)

	abingdon.attractions.pendon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Pendon Museum brings to the visitor the beauty of the English countryside and its railways as they were around 1930.
		A seperate exhibit captures the excitement of railways of this era as a cavalcade of trains moves across a superb Brunel viaduct on the edge of Dartmoor.
		This entirely imaginary layout was constructed in the late 30s and 40s by John Ahern, probably the first railway modeller to appreciate that the scenery is as important as the trains in conveying a sense of realism.
	www.abingdon.angle.uk.com /attractions/pendon.html (221 words)

	Local Attractions
		This acclaimed museum located in Wantage has very broad ranging services from galleries interpreting the cultural heritage Vale of the White Horse region, to a cafe with a delightful terrace and garden.
		Pendon aims 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.
		Pendon is being created entirely by volunteer modellers who work to the most exacting standards.
	www.manorfarm-wantage.co.uk /html/local_attractions.html (1244 words)

	Museums in Oxfordshire, England
		As a branch museum of Oxfordshire's Department of Leisure and Arts, schools are warmly invited to use the museum and education room.
		The museum is housed in a manor house dating from the 12th century, rebuilt in 1684 by Sir Christopher Wren and decorated by Grinling Gibbons and James Wyatt.
		The museum is housed in the Old Court House, which still belongs to the Bloxham Feoffees, trustees of the ancient Bloxham charities.
	archive.museophile.sbu.ac.uk /museums/oxon.html (3974 words)

	Pendon Museum [ Homepage ]
		Pendon is enjoyed by people of all generations and with many different interests.
		Pendon Museum is building an ambitious model of the countryside of the Vale of the White Horse as it was in the 1930's.
		The Museum also houses a collection of railway relics, and from time to time special exhibitions are on display, a recent popular example being a collection of Great Western Railway jigsaw puzzles.
	www.pendonmuseum.com (585 words)

	Museums - Vale of the White Horse
		The museum details the life and works of Thomas Hughes, author of "Tom Brown's Schooldays", together with other historical material from the area including poet laureate Sir John Betjeman and his poetry.
		This museum displays Hendred's Millennium history and is housed in a Grade I Chapel.
		It is a museum of detailed miniature landscapes, including working trains of the 1930's, scenery of the wilds of Dartmoor and farms and cottage groups in a typical village in the Vale.
	www.visitvale.com /site/attractions/museums (453 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Pendon Museum is probably the finest example of 4mm scenic and railway modelling in the country.
		The main exhibit is a scene 70 feet by 30 feet, representing part of the Vale of White Horse, formerly in Berkshire, as it was in the 1920s and 30s.
		Other exhibits at the Museum include the Dartmoor scene - a representation of a branch line on the edge of Dartmoor and the Madder Valley Railway - a pioneering model railway created by John Ahern in the 1930s.
	www.malcolmsminiatures.co.uk /Model_railways/Common/Pendon.htm (165 words)

	WWW Virtual Library: Museums around the UK
		Highland Museum of Childhood, Strathpeffer, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland.
		[Responsible for: Hunterian Museum; Odontological Museum, Wellcome Museum of Anatomy; Wellcome Museum of Pathology].
		Museum of science and industry that "not only explores the impact of science and technology in our daily lives but promotes the region's significant scientific contribution and provides an opportunity for genuine dialogue about science and the issues that affect us all".
	icom.museum /vlmp/uk.html (8217 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Museum of the Physics Department, Institute of Physics of Naples.
		Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge.
		Pendon Museum of Miniature Landscape and Transport, Oxon.
	archive.comlab.ox.ac.uk /other/museums/all.html (2580 words)

	Oxford Children's Activities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Your children could not fail to be impressed by the massive structure of a dinosaur's skeleton that fills the entrance to this museum.
		A very contemporary looking museum, which celebrates the traditions of the river Thames and all the sports, people and places that go with it.
		The city's principal museum tells the story of the city and the University from pre-historic times to the 20th century.
	www.inoxfordmag.co.uk /kids/kids_events_museums.html (663 words)

	Model Railroading Links Directory: Museums
		The Great Train Story replaces the Museum’s 60-year-old model railroad exhibit and boasts a 3,500 square foot layout, which depicts the railroad’s winding journey between Chicago and Seattle, passing through the Midwest, the Plains States, the Rockies, the Cascades, and into the Pacific Northwest.
		The Twin City Model Railroad Museum is proud to present a scale model panorama of railroading in the United States during its heyday in the 1930s, '40s and '50s.
		The Museum's main attraction is a 40' X 100' scale model of the tracks between Pittsburgh, Pa. and Cumberland, Md. The museum also has many older model train sets and old train paraphernalia on display
	www.raillinks.com /modelrr/pages/Museums (796 words)

	Pendon Museum [ Welcome from the Chairman ]
		The Museum recaptures a way of life that is fading from nostalgia into the realm of history during a time of great change during the 1920s and 30s, and we aim for an approach that reflects a desire for you to experience a high quality in all that we do.
		Pendon is staffed by a band of dedicated volunteers, supported by three equally dedicated part time administration and care-taking staff and a growing band of Friends of Pendon.
		For Friends of the Museum, who actively support what we do and may be looking for the latest update on our activities, I hope that what you find will encourage you to take advantage of your complimentary access to visit us once again.
	www.pendonmuseum.com /about/welcome.html (401 words)

	Model Drawings - Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Outdoor industrial museum based in chalk pits in West Sessex at map ref 4 in the Rural Index.
		Museum directory in alphabetical order, is a government sponsored publication.
		Open air museum situated at map ref.1 in the Rural Index.
	www.modeldrawings.org /links.asp?id=4 (308 words)

	oxford.attractions.ashmolean-museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Ashmolean is one of the great museums in the world - and it can lay claim to be Britain's first official museum.
		Indeed, at the time of its founding, the term "museum" was unknown.
		The museum can be contacted by post at Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, by telephne on (01865) 278000 or by Fax on (01865) 278018 Group bookings and tours: Oxford (01865) 278015
	www.oxford.angle.uk.com /attractions/ashmolean.html (422 words)

	Reading Things To Do - Travel Guides - VirtualTourist.com
		Pendon Museum At the Pendon Museum the 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.
		Pendon Museum is situated in the village of Long Wittenham, near Didcot in Oxfordshire, England.
		Pendon has a small shop selling a variety of interesting books and other items, as well as light refreshments.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/Berkshire/Reading-306576/Things_To_Do-Reading-BR-3.html (1118 words)

	Places to Visit
		The year is packed with a spectacular number of new events including costumed entertainment in February, during the summer and at the end of October.
		The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology is a museum of the University of Oxford.
		Founded in 1683, it is one of the oldest public museums in the world.
	www.didcotgirls.oxon.sch.uk /pupils/didcot/places_to_visit.htm (1141 words)

	The Pendon Museum
		Heard assures me that there is still some two year’s work to be done to complete the scene, a great deal of progress has been made since that article first appeared.
		However, in about 1980, when Angus Pilton and museum founder, Roye England, were on one of their periodic trips around the Vale, they spotted Wharf Farm just north of Uffington, whose house and its adjoining buildings had belonged to Uffington Wharf.
		These showed not only a single-storey lock cottage which was just what we were looking for, but also a rather fine ‘tail bridge’ which carried the towpath across the canal at the bottom end of the lock.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /dg.small/W&BC_info/pendon_museum.htm (1069 words)

	Long Wittenham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The village church, St Mary's, begun around 1120, is on the site of a previous Saxon church.
		Pendon Museum, with models of buildings and railways, is located here.
		Clifton Cut bypasses the river to the north.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Long_Wittenham (247 words)

	Visit to Didcot
		There were insufficient numbers in the party for a group discount, so each member paid the Â£9.00 admission fee separately.
		The date was arranged to coincide with the âLittle and Largeâ weekend, a joint event with the Pendon Museum.
		Taxis were used to ferry people to Pendon, although we used the mini-bus.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /ashenti/nailseamrc.org.uk/activities/didcot.html (303 words)

	It's A Small But Beautiful World At Pendon Museum - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, ...
		As a museum so fanatically involved with the preservation and care of something so traditionally English, it may perhaps seem strange that it was founded by an Australian.
		Unbelievably, a new contender for the title ‘smallest miniature’ at Pendon has emerged to beat the famous robin redbreast into second place – a butterfly can now be seen perching on a cabbage in the Vale scene.
		With the scenes modelled to the scale of 1:76, (normal scales for human figures are around 1:12), creating a butterfly is no mean feat.
	www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /nwh_gfx_en/ART34063.html (1185 words)

	Oxford events and event listings in Oxford
		Pendon Museum of Miniature Landscape and Transport 01/02 to 31/12
		Highly detailed and authentic model village scenes and model railway, taking the visitor back in time to the country world of the 1930s.
		This museum holds a collection of zoological, entomological and mineral specimens accumalated in the course of the last three centuries.
	www.myoxford.net /oxford/events-list-all.htm (576 words)

	Pendon Miniature Museum near Abingdon, Oxfordshire - Southern England - UK Attraction
		Pendon Miniature Museum near Abingdon, Oxfordshire - Southern England - UK Attraction
		Pendon Museum was founded in 1954 to commemorate in miniature the landscape of the Vale of the White Horse as it was in the 1920’s.
		At a scale of 4mm to the foot, modellers are still working on the mighty indoor landscape, 21m by 9m.
	www.ukattraction.com /southern-england/pendon-museum.htm (165 words)

	Classic Motor Monthly - Classic, Vintage & Veteran Road Transport Museums in the U.K.
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		Birmingham and Midland Museum of Transport, Chapel Lane, Wythall, Near Birmingham.
		Pendon Museum of Landscape and Transport in Miniature, Long Wittenham, Abingdon, Oxon., OX14 4QD.
	www.classicmotor.co.uk /museums/museums.htm (1315 words)

	wantage.attractions.vale-downland-museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The museum is a thriving centre for the local community.
		The museum reopened in July 1999 after extensive refurbishment and includes an interactive auditorium.
		The Museum is supported by Wantage Town Council, Vale of the White Horse District Council and its many Friends and volunteers.
	www.wantage.angle.uk.com /attractions/valemus.html (143 words)

	Attractions - Museums
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		Canal-side museum of Banbury history, "Hands on" displays and a strong waterways emphasis.
		This small gem of a museum is housed in part of a medieval hall-house.
	www.blewbury.co.uk /atmuseums.htm (1543 words)

	Oxfordshire Art Galleries, Museums, Studios UK
		Attractive historic museum and gardens Oxfordshire Museum is situated at the heart of the historic town of Woodstock, the award - winning redevelopment of Fletcher's House provides a home for the new county...
		Victorian life museum Come to Cogges Manor Farm Museum to discover what life was like for the Victorians of rural Oxfordshire.
		At Pendon Museum the aim is 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....
	www.totaltravel.co.uk /travel/london/oxfordshire/directory/artgalleries (240 words)

	Beezpics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The museum depicts the landscape in miniature as it would have appeared in the 1930s.
		The level of detail is incredible and all the buildings are exact replicas of full-size structures.
		For more details on the Pendon Museum, visit their website, which can be accessed by clicking
	homepage.mac.com /bhdhf/cothill/07dec03/pendon.html (67 words)

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