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Chinnor

Chinnor is a large village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England, about 4 miles (6 km) southeast of Thame and close to the border with Buckinghamshire.

Chinnor
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The place

Chinnor is a large village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England, about 4 miles (6 km) southeast of Thame and close to the border with Buckinghamshire. The village is a spring line settlement on the Icknield Way below the Chiltern escarpment. Since 1932 the civil parish has included the village of Emmington. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 5,924.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Chinnor

2 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
    Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway

    The Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway is a preserved standard gauge heritage railway with its headquarters and main station at Chinnor in South Oxfordshire, England. It runs along the foot of the Chilterns escarpment.

    600 m · English standard gauge heritage railway · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Chinnor Hill

    Chinnor Hill is a 26.8-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Chinnor in Oxfordshire. It is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.

    1.3 km · Hill in Oxfordshire, South East 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 Chinnor

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 40 km · London Luton (LTN), 42 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 79 km
Stations
Aston Rowant railway station, 4 km · Chinnor railway station, 500 m · Bledlow Bridge Halt railway station, 3.3 km · Kingston Crossing Halt railway station, 2.5 km · Wainhill Crossing Halt railway station, 1.3 km
  • London → Chinnor
    58 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · £6–9
  • Luton, Luton → Chinnor
    39 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £4–6
  • London, Essex → Chinnor
    58 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · £6–9
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Chinnor

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 Chinnor. 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

    116 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    267 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    435 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    513 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    549 km

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

Around it

Next door to Chinnor

Chinnor is 28 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Aston Rowantvillage and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England3.2 km
  • Sydenhamvillage and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England2.6 km
  • Crowellvillage and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England, UK1.6 km
  • Bledlow-cum-Saundertoncivil parish in Buckinghamshire, England2.7 km
  • Bledlowvillage in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom2.7 km
  • Kingston Blountvillage in Oxfordshire, England, UK2 km