Cassington
Cassington is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire about 5 miles (8 km) northwest of Oxford.
Cassington is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire about 5 miles (8 km) northwest of Oxford. The village lies on gravel strata about 1⁄2 mile (800 m) from the confluence of the River Evenlode with the River Thames. The parish includes the hamlet of Worton northeast of the village and the site of the former hamlet of Somerford to the south. Somerford seems to have been abandoned early in the 14th century. Cassington is formed of two parts, "upper" and "lower", each with its own village green. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 750.
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Worth seeing in and around Cassington
9 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.
- 01Begbroke Science Park
Oxford University Science Park, Begbroke is a science park located around five miles north of Oxford, England. It is the only science park wholly owned and managed by Oxford University and sits within the university's Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division.
3.7 km · science park of Oxford University · Wikipedia - 02Eynsham Abbey
Eynsham Abbey was a Benedictine monastery in Eynsham, Oxfordshire, in England between 1005 and 1538. King Æthelred allowed Æthelmær the Stout to found the abbey in 1005.
2.7 km · (1005–1538) Benedictine monastery in Oxfordshire, England · Wikipedia - 03Swinford Toll Bridge
Swinford Toll Bridge is a privately owned toll bridge across the Thames in Oxfordshire, England. It crosses the river just above Eynsham Lock, between the village of Eynsham on the north-west bank and the hamlet of Swinford on the south-east bank.
2.4 km · bridge in Cumnor, Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Wytham Abbey And Attached Wall
Wytham Abbey is a privately owned Grade I listed historic manor house situated in the village of Wytham, 3 miles northwest of the centre of Oxford, England, near the River Thames. The Abbey lies at the edge of Wytham Woods, an area of long-established English woodland and protected as a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
3 km · Grade I listed building in Vale of White Horse, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05A34 Road Bridge
The A34 Road Bridge is a modern road bridge carrying the Oxford ring road at Oxford, England, across the River Thames. It crosses the Thames just upstream of Godstow Lock near Wolvercote on the reach to King's Lock.
3 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 06Duke's Cut
Duke's Cut is a short waterway in Oxfordshire, England, which connects the Oxford Canal with the River Thames via the Wolvercote Mill Stream. It is named after George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough, across whose land the waterway was cut.
3.2 km · canal in the UK · Wikipedia - 07Cassington Canal
The Cassington Canal was an early 19th-century canal near Eynsham, Oxfordshire. The canal was built by the 4th Duke of Marlborough to provide a link between the River Thames and Cassington Mill; it later provided alternative wharfage to that at Eynsham.
1.1 km · canal in Oxfordshire · Wikipedia - 08Godstow Bridge
Godstow Bridge is a road bridge across the River Thames in England at Godstow near Oxford. The bridge is just upstream of Godstow Lock on the reach to King's Lock and carries a minor road between Wolvercote and Wytham.
3.3 km · grade II listed bridge in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Wolvercote Meadows
Wolvercote Meadows is a 7.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Oxford in Oxfordshire. Part of it is owned by the Oxford Preservation Trust.
3.3 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
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Getting to Cassington
- Airports
- London Luton (LTN), 68 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 71 km · Birmingham (BHX), 79 km
- London → Cassington90 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £9–12
- Luton, Luton → Cassington65 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £9–12
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Cassington86 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · £11–15
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No local-transport research exists yet for Cassington
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 Cassington. 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 Cassington
Cassington is 45 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Wythamvillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England2.7 km
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