Moulsford

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Moulsford is a village and civil parish in the English county of Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire).

Moulsford sits on the A329, beside the River Thames, just north of Streatley and south of Wallingford. The west of the parish is taken up by the foothills of the Berkshire Downs, including the Moulsford Downs (a site of special scientific interest), Moulsford Bottom and Kingstanding Hill which is traditionally associated with King Alfred and the Battle of Ashdown. Like many other villages in Oxfordshire, it has been used for the filming of Midsomer Murders.

The famous Bronze Age 'Moulsford Torc' was discovered in the parish and purchased by the Museum of Reading with the help of a grant from the Art Fund in 1961. It is a hoop-shaped decorative neck ornament, made of four spirally-twisted gold-alloy strips held together by a delicate piece of twisted gold wire. In the Middle Ages, Moulsford Manor was the English home of the powerful Carew family who also had a residence at Carew Castle in Pembrokeshire. John Stevens Henslow, the well-known botanist and geologist, was the vicar in the 1830s.

Just north of Moulsford is Moulsford Railway Bridge, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and built in 1838-1839.