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Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney

Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney is a civil parish in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England.

Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney
Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney is a civil parish in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England. As the name suggests, the parish includes the villages of Aston and Cote, and the hamlets of Shifford and Chimney. The southern border of the parish is the River Thames. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 1,394.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney

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
    Hinton Waldrist Castle

    Hinton Waldrist Castle was in Hinton Waldrist about 7.5 miles north of Wantage. Hinton Waldrist spent most of its history in Berkshire until in 1974 it was transferred to Oxfordshire.

    4 km · castle in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Tadpole Bridge

    Tadpole Bridge is a road bridge across the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England, carrying a road between Bampton to the north and Buckland to the south. It crosses the Thames on the reach above Shifford Lock.

    3.1 km · bridge in Buckland, Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Cote Baptist Church

    Cote Baptist Church stands in Shifford Road, Cote, 1 mile to the east of Aston and 4 miles to the east of Bampton, in Oxfordshire, England. It is a redundant Baptist chapel in the care of Friends of Friendless Churches.

    800 m · church in Cote, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Tenfoot Bridge

    Tenfoot Bridge is a wooden footbridge across the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England. It is situated on the reach above Shifford Lock and was built in 1869.

    3 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Chimney Meadows

    Chimney Meadows is a 49.6-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Abingdon-on-Thames and Faringdon in Oxfordshire. It is also a national nature reserve, and part of the 308-hectare Chimney Meadows nature reserve, which is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.

    2.6 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · 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 Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 76 km · London Luton (LTN), 79 km · Birmingham (BHX), 83 km
  • London → Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney
    163 km · quickest by road, 3h 4m · £17–23
  • Luton, Luton → Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney
    121 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £12–16
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney
    2 km · quickest by road, 10 min · £0.5
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney

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 Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inOxford Airport (OXF) at Kidlington is used mainly for private and charter aircraft and has only intermittently had scheduled airline flights; it is useful only if you fly your own plane, or are able to charter a small aircraft.

From Wikivoyage: Oxfordshire, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-07.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    116 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    229 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    470 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    492 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    528 km

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

Around it

Next door to Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney

Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney is 46 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Longworthvillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England3.4 km
  • Hinton Waldristvillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England4 km
  • Standlakevillage and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, England3.9 km
  • Astonvillage in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom1.7 km
  • Shiffordvillage in Oxfordshire, England, UK1.8 km
  • Brighthamptonvillage in Oxfordshire, UK3 km