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Charlton-on-Otmoor

Charlton-on-Otmoor is a village and civil parish about 9 miles (14 km) NE of Oxford and 6 miles (10 km) SW of Bicester in the Cherwell district, in the county of Oxfordshire, England.

Charlton-on-Otmoor
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The place

Charlton-on-Otmoor is a village and civil parish about 9 miles (14 km) NE of Oxford and 6 miles (10 km) SW of Bicester in the Cherwell district, in the county of Oxfordshire, England. The village, one of the seven "towns" of Otmoor, is on the northern edge of the moor on a ridge of Cornbrash. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 449.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Charlton-on-Otmoor

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
    The Manor Country House Hotel

    The Manor Country House Hotel in Weston-on-the-Green is a building of historical significance and is Grade II* listed on the English Heritage Register. It was built in the late 15th century and was the home of many notable people over the next five centuries.

    3.8 km · country house hotel in Weston-on-the-Green, Oxfordshire, England, UK · 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 Charlton-on-Otmoor

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 56 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 65 km · Birmingham (BHX), 78 km
  • London → Charlton-on-Otmoor
    82 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · £9–12
  • Luton, Luton → Charlton-on-Otmoor
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £6–8
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Charlton-on-Otmoor
    86 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £11–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Charlton-on-Otmoor

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 Charlton-on-Otmoor. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get in() 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.
  • Get inBirmingham Airport has its own railway station called Birmingham International, which is connected to the airport terminal building via the free AirRail Link cable car shuttle, taking 1–2 min.

From Wikivoyage: Oxford, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    128 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    252 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    446 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    490 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    526 km

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Around it

Next door to Charlton-on-Otmoor

Charlton-on-Otmoor is 45 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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