Besselsleigh
Besselsleigh or Bessels Leigh is an English village and civil parish about 4+1⁄2 miles (7 km) southwest of Oxford.
Besselsleigh or Bessels Leigh is an English village and civil parish about 4+1⁄2 miles (7 km) southwest of Oxford. Besselsleigh was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. The village is just off the A420 road between Oxford and Swindon.
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Worth seeing in and around Besselsleigh
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.
- 01Jarn Mound
Jarn Mound is a mound on Boars Hill which was completed in 1931. It was commissioned by Sir Arthur Evans to provide and preserve the view of the "dreaming spires" of Oxford and the surroundings which the poet Matthew Arnold had immortalised in his poem Thyrsis in 1865.
3.7 km · artificial hill in Oxfordshire, England · Wikipedia - 02Appleton Manor
Appleton Manor is a manor house in Appleton, Oxfordshire, England. Dating from around 1200, it is among the oldest inhabited manor houses in England, described by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner as "an amazing survival".
700 m · manor house in Appleton, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Cumnor Hurst
Hurst Hill or Cumnor Hurst is a 20.6-hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Oxford in Oxfordshire. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.
3.7 km · hill in Oxfordshire, England · Wikipedia - 04Cumnor Hill
Cumnor Hill is a hill in the civil parish of Cumnor, to the west of the city of Oxford, in the English county of Oxfordshire. In 1974 it was transferred from Berkshire.
3.5 km · hill and settlement in Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Dry Sandford Pit
Dry Sandford Pit is a 4.2-hectare former sand quarry and now a biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Abingdon-on-Thames in Oxfordshire. It is a Geological Conservation Review site and it is managed as a nature reserve by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.
2.7 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
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Getting to Besselsleigh
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 67 km · London Luton (LTN), 70 km · Birmingham (BHX), 87 km
- London → Besselsleigh87 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · £9–12
- Luton, Luton → Besselsleigh66 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · £9–12
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Besselsleigh94 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · £12–16
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No local-transport research exists yet for Besselsleigh
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 Besselsleigh. 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 Besselsleigh
Besselsleigh is 38 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Cumnorvillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England3 km
- Woottonvillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England2.6 km
- Northmoorvillage and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, England, UK3.2 km
- Boars Hillvillage in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom3.8 km
- Appletonvillage in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom800 m
- Appleton-with-Eatoncivil parish in Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England1.3 km