Boars Hill
Boars Hill is a hamlet 3 miles (5 km) southwest of Oxford, straddling the boundary between the civil parishes of Sunningwell and Wootton.
Boars Hill is a hamlet 3 miles (5 km) southwest of Oxford, straddling the boundary between the civil parishes of Sunningwell and Wootton. It consists of about 360 dwellings spread over an area of nearly two square miles as shown on this map from the long established Boars Hill Association. Historically, it was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire.
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Worth seeing in and around Boars Hill
10 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.
- 01Osney Abbey
Osney Abbey or Oseney Abbey, later Osney Cathedral, was a house of Augustinian canons at Osney in Oxfordshire. The site is south of the modern Botley Road, down Mill Street by Osney Cemetery, next to the railway line just south of Oxford station.
4 km · house of Augustinian canons at Osney in Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Jarn 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.
400 m · artificial hill in Oxfordshire, England · Wikipedia - 03St Mary the Virgin, Iffley
The Church of St Mary the Virgin, Iffley is a Church of England parish church in the village of Iffley, Oxfordshire, England, now absorbed as a suburb of the city of Oxford.
3.9 km · historic church in Iffley, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom · 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 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.
3.6 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 06Cumnor 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.
2.4 km · hill in Oxfordshire, England · Wikipedia - 07Harcourt Hill
Harcourt Hill is a hill and community in North Hinksey in Oxfordshire, England, west of the city of Oxford. There is a good view of the city from the hill.
2.6 km · hill and community in Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Isis Bridge
Isis Bridge is a modern road bridge across the River Thames just south of Oxford, England. It carries the Oxford Ring Road, part of the A423 road, across the Thames on the reach between Sandford Lock and Iffley Lock.
3.6 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 09Kennington Railway Bridge
Kennington Railway Bridge is a railway bridge over the River Thames near Kennington, Oxfordshire between Sandford Lock and Iffley Lock. It carries the freight railway branch line that serves the BMW Mini factory at Cowley.
3.5 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 10Church of St Lawrence
St Lawrence's Church is a Church of England church in North Hinksey, West Oxford, England. The church is dedicated to St Lawrence, a Christian martyr.
3.4 km · church in North Hinksey, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Boars Hill
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 64 km · London Luton (LTN), 66 km · Birmingham (BHX), 88 km
- London → Boars Hill84 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £9–12
- Luton, Luton → Boars Hill63 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £7–10
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Boars Hill95 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · £12–16
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No local-transport research exists yet for Boars Hill
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 Boars Hill. 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 Boars Hill
Boars Hill is 36 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Cumnorvillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England3.5 km
- Kenningtonvillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England, UK2.9 km
- Sunningwellvillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England1.8 km
- South Hinkseyvillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England3 km
- Woottonvillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England1.8 km
- North Hinkseyvillage in Botley and North Hinksey, Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England3.7 km