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Duns Tew

Duns Tew is an English village and civil parish about 7+1⁄2 miles (12 km) south of Banbury in Oxfordshire.

Duns Tew
Duns Tew · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Duns Tew is an English village and civil parish about 7+1⁄2 miles (12 km) south of Banbury in Oxfordshire. The 2011 census recorded the parish's population as 478. With nearby Great Tew and Little Tew, Duns Tew is one of the three villages known collectively as "The Tews". A 'tew' is believed to be an ancient term for a ridge of land.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Duns Tew

3 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
    Deddington Castle

    Deddington Castle is an extensive earthwork in the village of Deddington, Oxfordshire, all that remains of an 11th-century motte-and-bailey castle, with only the earth ramparts and mound now visible. The castle was built on a wealthy former Anglo-Saxon estate by Bishop Odo of Bayeux, half-brother of William the Conqueror.

    3.3 km · motte-and-bailey castle in Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Town Hall

    Deddington Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Place in Deddington in Oxfordshire, England. The structure, which is used for community events, is a Grade II listed building.

    3.2 km · town hall in Deddington, Cherwell, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Barton Abbey

    Barton Abbey is a privately owned house in Oxfordshire, England, in the parish of Steeple Barton. Parts of the building date from the 16th century but the majority of the structure is Victorian.

    3.7 km · Grade II listed country house in Steeple Barton, West Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Duns Tew

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 62 km · London Luton (LTN), 67 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 81 km
  • London → Duns Tew
    97 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £11–14
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Duns Tew
    70 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £9–12
  • Luton, Luton → Duns Tew
    64 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £7–10
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Duns Tew

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 Duns Tew. 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

    141 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    246 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    451 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    474 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    510 km

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Around it

Next door to Duns Tew

Duns Tew is 52 km from Coventry, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Steeple Astonvillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England3.4 km
  • North Astonvillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England1.9 km
  • Steeple Bartonvillage and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, England3.7 km
  • Middle Astonvillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England2.4 km
  • Middle Bartonvillage in Oxfordshire, England, UK3.4 km
  • Wortoncivil parish within the West Oxfordshire district, England3.1 km