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 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.
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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.
- 01Hinton 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 - 02Tadpole 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 - 03Cote 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 - 04Tenfoot 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 - 05Chimney 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
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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 Chimney163 km · quickest by road, 3h 4m · £17–23
- Luton, Luton → Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney121 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £12–16
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney2 km · quickest by road, 10 min · £0.5
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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.
- 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.
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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.
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- Astonvillage in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom1.7 km
- Shiffordvillage in Oxfordshire, England, UK1.8 km
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