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 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.
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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.
- 01Chinnor 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 - 02Chinnor 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
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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 → Chinnor58 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · £6–9
- Luton, Luton → Chinnor39 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £4–6
- London, Essex → Chinnor58 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · £6–9
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
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If you know how people move in Chinnor – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
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