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Alvescot

Alvescot is a village and civil parish about 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) south of Carterton, Oxfordshire, England.

Alvescot
Alvescot · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Alvescot is a village and civil parish about 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) south of Carterton, Oxfordshire, England. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 472.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Alvescot

5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Bampton Castle

    Bampton Castle was in the village of Bampton, Oxfordshire. Differing accounts of its origin exist.

    3.2 km · castle in Bampton, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Crocodiles of the World

    Crocodiles of the World is a zoo in Brize Norton, Oxfordshire in the United Kingdom specialising in crocodilia.

    3.9 km · zoo in Oxfordshire, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Mary, Bampton

    The Church of Saint Mary the Virgin is the Church of England parish church of Bampton, West Oxfordshire. It is in the Archdeaconry of Dorchester in the Diocese of Oxford.

    3.3 km · church in Bampton, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Carterton Town Hall

    Carterton Town Hall is a municipal building in Alvescot Road in Carterton, Oxfordshire, a town in England. It accommodates the offices and meeting place of Carterton Town Council.

    1.8 km · municipal building in England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Town Hall

    Bampton Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Square in Bampton, Oxfordshire, England. The building, which is primarily used as an arts centre, is a Grade II listed building.

    3.6 km · town hall in Bampton, West Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Alvescot

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 80 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 84 km · London Luton (LTN), 85 km
Stations
Royal Air Force Station Brize Norton, 1 km · Alvescot railway station, 1 km · Carterton railway station, 300 m
  • London → Alvescot
    105 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £11–14
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Alvescot
    85 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £11–14
  • Luton, Luton → Alvescot
    83 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £11–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Alvescot

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Alvescot. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    119 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    222 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    476 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    486 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    522 km

If you know how people move in Alvescot – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Alvescot

Alvescot is 53 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Cartertontown and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, England1.6 km
  • Bamptonvillage and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, England3.6 km
  • Brize Nortonvillage and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, England3.2 km
  • Shiltonvillage and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, England4 km
  • Broadwellvillage and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, England3.6 km
  • Clanfieldvillage and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, England2.9 km