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Cumnor

Cumnor is a village and civil parish 3½ miles (5.6 km) west of the centre of Oxford, England.

Cumnor
Cumnor · Charles J. Sharp
The place

Cumnor is a village and civil parish 3½ miles (5.6 km) west of the centre of Oxford, England. The village is about 2 miles (3.2 km) south-west of Botley and its centre is west of the A420 road to Swindon. The parish includes Cumnor Hill, Chawley, the Dean Court area on the edge of Botley and the outlying settlements of Chilswell, Farmoor, Filchampstead and Swinford. It was within Berkshire until the 1974 local government boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. The 2021 Census recorded the parish population as 6,652.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Cumnor

9 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
    Bulstake Bridge

    Bulstake Bridge is a road bridge across the Bulstake Stream, a branch of the River Thames in Oxford, England. The original stone arch bridge was built by John Claymond, the first President of Corpus Christi College, in around 1530.

    4 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Jarn Mound

    Jarn Mound is a mound on Boars Hill which was completed in 1931. It was commissioned by Sir Arthur Evans to provide and preserve the view of the "dreaming spires" of Oxford and the surroundings which the poet Matthew Arnold had immortalised in his poem Thyrsis in 1865.

    3.1 km · artificial hill in Oxfordshire, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Farmoor Reservoir

    Farmoor Reservoir is a public supply reservoir at Farmoor, Oxfordshire, England, about 5 miles west of Oxford. It is adjacent to the River Thames.

    2.8 km · lake in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Appleton Manor

    Appleton Manor is a manor house in Appleton, Oxfordshire, England. Dating from around 1200, it is among the oldest inhabited manor houses in England, described by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner as "an amazing survival".

    3.3 km · manor house in Appleton, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Lawrence

    St Lawrence's Church is a Church of England church in North Hinksey, West Oxford, England. The church is dedicated to St Lawrence, a Christian martyr.

    3.5 km · church in North Hinksey, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Botley Bridge

    Botley Bridge is a road bridge across Seacourt Stream, a branch of the River Thames in Oxford, England. The bridge is on the A420 arterial road at the point where the Botley Road out of Oxford becomes West Way, west of the centre of the city.

    3.5 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Cumnor Hill

    Cumnor Hill is a hill in the civil parish of Cumnor, to the west of the city of Oxford, in the English county of Oxfordshire. In 1974 it was transferred from Berkshire.

    700 m · hill and settlement in Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Cumnor Hurst

    Hurst Hill or Cumnor Hurst is a 20.6-hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Oxford in Oxfordshire. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

    1.5 km · hill in Oxfordshire, England · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Harcourt Hill

    Harcourt Hill is a hill and community in North Hinksey in Oxfordshire, England, west of the city of Oxford. There is a good view of the city from the hill.

    2.7 km · hill and community in Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Cumnor

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 67 km · London Luton (LTN), 68 km · Birmingham (BHX), 85 km
  • London → Cumnor
    87 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £9–12
  • Luton, Luton → Cumnor
    65 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · £9–12
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Cumnor
    92 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · £12–15
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Cumnor

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 Cumnor. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Oxfordshire, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-07.

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

    239 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    460 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    495 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    531 km

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

Around it

Next door to Cumnor

Cumnor is 40 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Woottonvillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England3.4 km
  • North Hinkseyvillage in Botley and North Hinksey, Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England3.2 km
  • Besselsleighhamlet and civil parish in Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England3 km
  • Boars Hillvillage in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom3 km
  • Appletonvillage in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom3.4 km
  • Appleton-with-Eatoncivil parish in Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England2.6 km