Culham
Culham is a village and civil parish in a bend of the River Thames, 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Abingdon in Oxfordshire.
Culham is a village and civil parish in a bend of the River Thames, 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Abingdon in Oxfordshire. The parish includes Culham Science Centre and Europa School UK. The parish is bounded by the Thames to the north, west and south, and by present and former field boundaries to the east. It is low-lying and fairly flat, rising from the Thames floodplain in the south to a north-facing escarpment in the north up to 260 feet (80 m) above sea level. The 2011 census recorded its population as 453.
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Worth seeing in and around Culham
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.
- 01Abingdon-on-Thames
Abingdon-on-Thames, commonly known as Abingdon, is a historic market town and civil parish on the River Thames in the Vale of the White Horse district of Oxfordshire, England. The historic county town of Berkshire, the area was occupied from the early to middle Iron Age and the remains of a late Iron Age and Roman defensive enclosure lies below the town centre.
2.3 km · market town in Vale of White Horse, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Abingdon Abbey
Abingdon Abbey was a Benedictine monastery in Abingdon-on-Thames in the modern county of Oxfordshire in the United Kingdom. Situated near to the River Thames, it was founded in c.
2.2 km · Grade I listed abbey in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03The Abbey, Sutton Courtenay
The Abbey in Sutton Courtenay is a medieval courtyard house in the English county of Oxfordshire. It is located in the Vale of White Horse near the River Thames, across the road from the twelfth-century Norman Hall and the Manor House.
1.2 km · Grade I listed English country house in Sutton Courtenay, Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04FitzHarris Castle
FitzHarris Castle was a medieval castle located near Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England.
2.8 km · castle in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05All Saints' Church, Sutton Courtenay
The Church of All Saints, Sutton Courtenay is the Church of England parish church of Sutton Courtenay in Oxfordshire, England. Extant since at least the 12th century, the church has been Grade I listed since 1966.
900 m · church in Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06St Helen's Church, Abingdon
St Helen's Church is a Church of England parish church in Abingdon on the bank of the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England. The church is thought to occupy the site of the Anglo-Saxon Helenstowe Nunnery.
2.1 km · church in Abingdon on Thames, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07St Nicolas' Church
The Church of Saint Nicolas is a Church of England parish church in Abingdon in the English county of Oxfordshire.
2.3 km · church in Abingdon in the English District of Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Appleford Railway Bridge
Appleford Railway Bridge carries the Cherwell Valley Line from Didcot to Oxford across the River Thames near the village of Appleford-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England. It crosses the Thames on the reach between Clifton Lock and Culham Lock.
2 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 09Clifton Hampden Bridge
Clifton Hampden Bridge is a road bridge crossing the River Thames in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire, England, situated on the reach below Clifton Lock. Originally it joined Oxfordshire on the north bank with Berkshire on the south but in 1974 the area on the south bank was transferred from Berkshire to Oxfordshire.
3.8 km · bridge in Clifton Hampden, South Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Culham Bridge
Culham Bridge is a medieval bridge crossing a present backwater of the River Thames in England at Culham, Oxfordshire, near the town of Abingdon. The bridge crosses Swift Ditch which was at one time the main navigation channel of the River Thames until Abingdon Lock was built in 1790.
1.1 km · bridge in Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Culham
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 59 km · London Luton (LTN), 67 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 94 km
- Stations
- Appleford railway station, 2.1 km · Culham railway station, 2 km · Abingdon Junction railway station, 2.9 km
- London → Culham80 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £8–11
- Luton, Luton → Culham63 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £7–9
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Culham102 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · £12–17
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No local-transport research exists yet for Culham
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 Culham. 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 Culham
Culham is 30 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Sutton Courtenayvillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England1.3 km
- Appleford-on-Thamesvillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England2.3 km
- Draytonvillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England3.3 km
- Miltonvillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England3.6 km
- Caldecottsuburb in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England, UK1.9 km
- Shipponvillage in Oxfordshire, England, UK3.6 km