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Ambrosden

Ambrosden is a village and civil parish in Cherwell, Oxfordshire, England, 3 miles (5 km) southwest of Bicester to which it is linked by the A41 road, and 13 miles (21 km) from Oxford.

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The place

Ambrosden is a village and civil parish in Cherwell, Oxfordshire, England, 3 miles (5 km) southwest of Bicester to which it is linked by the A41 road, and 13 miles (21 km) from Oxford. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 2,248. The parish is bounded by the River Ray to the south, its tributary the River Bure to the west, the outskirts of Bicester to the north and field boundaries to the east.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ambrosden

One place 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
    Arncott Bridge Meadows

    Arncott Bridge Meadows is an 8.7-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Arncott in Oxfordshire. The site is adjacent to the River Ray and in its flood plain.

    1.5 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia

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Getting to Ambrosden

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 52 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 64 km · Birmingham (BHX), 77 km
Stations
Bicester Village railway station, 2.8 km · Bicester North railway station, 3.7 km · Blackthorn railway station, 1.7 km
  • London → Ambrosden
    80 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £9–12
  • Luton, Luton → Ambrosden
    48 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · £6–8
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Ambrosden
    86 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · £10–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ambrosden

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 Ambrosden. 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

    133 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    258 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    440 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    489 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    525 km

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Around it

Next door to Ambrosden

Ambrosden is 48 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Bicestertown and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England3.4 km
  • Mertonvillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England3.9 km
  • Launtonvillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England, UK1.9 km
  • Arncottvillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England2.8 km
  • Blackthornvillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England, UK1.6 km
  • Alchester Roman TownRoman settlement in Wendlebury, Oxfordshire, England, UK3.5 km