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Brize Norton

Brize Norton is a village and civil parish 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Carterton in West Oxfordshire.

Brize Norton
Brize Norton · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Brize Norton is a village and civil parish 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Carterton in West Oxfordshire. The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 938. The original part of RAF Brize Norton is in the parish.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Brize Norton

3 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
    Crocodiles of the World

    Crocodiles of the World is a zoo in Brize Norton, Oxfordshire in the United Kingdom specialising in crocodilia.

    1.8 km · zoo in Oxfordshire, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Asthall Barrow: an Anglo-Saxon burial mound 100m SSW of Barrow Farm

    Asthall barrow is a high-status Anglo-Saxon burial mound from the seventh century AD. It is located in Asthall, Oxfordshire, and was excavated in 1923 and 1924.

    2.7 km · archaeological site in Asthall, West Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Carterton Town Hall

    Carterton Town Hall is a municipal building in Alvescot Road in Carterton, Oxfordshire, a town in England. It accommodates the offices and meeting place of Carterton Town Council.

    2.3 km · municipal building in England · 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.

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Getting to Brize Norton

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 77 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 83 km · London Luton (LTN), 83 km
Stations
Royal Air Force Station Brize Norton, 2.2 km · Carterton railway station, 3.2 km
  • London → Brize Norton
    103 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £10–14
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Brize Norton
    83 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £11–14
  • Luton, Luton → Brize Norton
    80 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · £10–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Brize Norton

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 Brize Norton. 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

    121 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    225 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    473 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    485 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    521 km

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

Around it

Next door to Brize Norton

Brize Norton is 54 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Cartertontown and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, England1.8 km
  • Alvescotvillage and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, England3.2 km
  • Minster Lovellvillage and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, England3.9 km
  • Shiltonvillage and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, England3.5 km
  • Lewvillage and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, England2.7 km
  • Curbridgevillage and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, England3.2 km