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Aston Upthorpe

Aston Upthorpe is a village and civil parish about 3 miles (5 km) southeast of Didcot in South Oxfordshire.

Aston Upthorpe
Aston Upthorpe · Charles J. Sharp
The place

Aston Upthorpe is a village and civil parish about 3 miles (5 km) southeast of Didcot in South Oxfordshire. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. The motion picture National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985) - Stonehenge Scene was filmed a mile to the south of the village on the ancient downland. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 179.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Aston Upthorpe

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
    South Moreton Castle

    South Moreton Castle was an 11th-century castle in the village of South Moreton, Oxfordshire,, England. The name can also refer to a nearby siege-castle, probably from the 12th century.

    1.7 km · castle in South Moreton, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Aston Upthorpe

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 53 km · London Luton (LTN), 67 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 85 km
Stations
Cholsey railway station, 3.3 km
  • London → Aston Upthorpe
    75 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £8–10
  • Luton, Luton → Aston Upthorpe
    64 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · £9–12
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Aston Upthorpe
    112 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £14–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Aston Upthorpe

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 Upthorpe. 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

    99 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    245 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    460 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    515 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    551 km

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Around it

Next door to Aston Upthorpe

Aston Upthorpe is 21 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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