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Botley

Botley is a residential village in the civil parish of Botley and North Hinksey, in the Vale of White Horse district, in the county of Oxfordshire, England, just west of the Oxford city boundary.

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The place

Botley is a residential village in the civil parish of Botley and North Hinksey, in the Vale of White Horse district, in the county of Oxfordshire, England, just west of the Oxford city boundary. Historically part of Berkshire, it stands on the Seacourt Stream, a stream running off the River Thames. The intersection of the A34 and A420 is to the village's north.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Botley

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.

  1. 01
    University of Oxford

    The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world’s second-oldest university in continuous operation.

    3.2 km · collegiate research university in Oxford, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Oxford University Press

    Oxford University Press is the publishing house of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world.

    2.4 km · publishing arm of the University of Oxford · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Bodleian Library

    The Bodleian Library is the main research library of the University of Oxford. Founded in 1602 by Sir Thomas Bodley, it is one of the oldest libraries in Europe.

    3.1 km · main research library of the University of Oxford · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Ashmolean Museum

    The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology on Beaumont Street in Oxford, England, is Britain's first public museum. Its first building was erected in 1678–1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities that Elias Ashmole gave to the University of Oxford in 1677.

    2.8 km · museum in Oxford, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Somerville College

    Somerville College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges.

    2.8 km · college of the University of Oxford · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Christ Church

    Christ Church is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, the college is uniquely a joint foundation of the university and the cathedral of the Oxford diocese, Christ Church Cathedral, which also serves as the college chapel and whose dean is ex officio the college head.

    3.1 km · constituent college of the University of Oxford in England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Balliol College

    Balliol College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford, England. Founded in 1263 by nobleman John I de Balliol, it has a claim to be the oldest college in Oxford and the English-speaking world.

    3 km · constituent college of the University of Oxford · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    All Souls College

    All Souls College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Unique to All Souls, all of its members automatically become fellows.

    3.3 km · college of the University of Oxford · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Brasenose College

    Brasenose College, formally The Principal and Scholars of the King's Hall and College of Brasenose in Oxford, or BNC, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1509 by Bishop of Lincoln William Smyth and Sir Richard Sutton, it traces its origins to an eponymous 13th-century medieval academic hall.

    3.2 km · college of the University of Oxford · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    University College, Oxford

    University College, formally The Master and Fellows of the College of the Great Hall of the University commonly called University College in the University of Oxford and colloquially referred to as "Univ", is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It has a claim to being the oldest college of the university, having been founded by William of Durham in 1249.

    3.4 km · Constituent College of Oxford University · 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.

Go there

Getting to Botley

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 66 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 66 km · Birmingham (BHX), 84 km
Stations
Oxford railway station, 2.1 km
  • London → Botley
    104 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £12–16
  • Luton, Luton → Botley
    123 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £14–19
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Botley
    180 km · quickest by road, 3h 31m · £21–28
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Botley

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Oxfordshire, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-07.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    118 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    242 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    457 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    495 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    531 km

If you know how people move in Botley – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Botley

Botley is 40 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Oxfordcity in Oxfordshire, England3 km
  • Cumnorvillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England2.8 km
  • South Hinkseyvillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England3 km
  • Wythamvillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England3.1 km
  • North Hinkseyvillage in Botley and North Hinksey, Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England600 m
  • Boars Hillvillage in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom3.5 km