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Bicester

Bicester is a market town and civil parish in the Cherwell district of Oxfordshire, England, 11 miles (18 km) north-east of Oxford.

Bicester
Bicester · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Bicester is a market town and civil parish in the Cherwell district of Oxfordshire, England, 11 miles (18 km) north-east of Oxford. The town is a notable tourist attraction due to the Bicester Village shopping centre. The historical town centre – designated as a conservation area – has a local market and numerous independent shops and restaurants. Bicester also has a town council and a mayor.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bicester

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.

    4.7 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.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Bicester Heritage

    Business park for the restoration, storage and enjoyment of vintage and classic cars, motorcycles and aeroplanes.

From Wikivoyage: Bicester, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Vue Cinema

    Pioneer Centre, Bure Place, OX26 6FA,.

From Wikivoyage: Bicester, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Denis
  2. 02
    Jenny's Restaurant
  3. 03
    Pizza Express
  4. 04
    Shakil's

From Wikivoyage: Bicester, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Bicester

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 54 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 67 km · Birmingham (BHX), 74 km
Stations
Bicester Village railway station, 800 m · Bicester North railway station, 400 m · Bicester Airfield, 2.1 km · Blackthorn railway station, 4.5 km
  • London → Bicester
    83 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · £9–12
  • Luton, Luton → Bicester
    51 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £6–8
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Bicester
    82 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £10–13
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bicester

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 Bicester. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

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    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

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Around it

Next door to Bicester

Bicester is 51 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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