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Cowley

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Cowley

10 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
    Christ Church

    Constituent college of the University of Oxford in England

    4 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    All Souls College

    College of the University of Oxford

    4 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    University College, Oxford

    Constituent College of Oxford University

    3.9 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Merton College

    College of the University of Oxford

    3.8 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Oriel College

    College of the University of Oxford

    3.9 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Magdalen College

    Constituent college of the University of Oxford in England

    3.5 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    New College

    Constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom

    3.9 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Corpus Christi College

    College of the University of Oxford

    3.9 km · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Oxford Brookes University

    University in Oxford, England

    2.7 km · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford

    Cathedral of the diocese of Oxford, England

    3.9 km · 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 Cowley

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 59 km · London Luton (LTN), 60 km · Birmingham (BHX), 88 km
  • London → Cowley
    79 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £8–11
  • Luton, Luton → Cowley
    57 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £7–9
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Cowley
    96 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £12–16
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Cowley

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 Cowley. 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

    116 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    248 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    452 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    500 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    536 km

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

Around it

Next door to Cowley

Cowley is 35 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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