Elsfield
Elsfield is an English village and civil parish about 3 miles (5 km) northeast of the centre of Oxford.
Elsfield is an English village and civil parish about 3 miles (5 km) northeast of the centre of Oxford. The village is 310 feet (94 m) above sea level on the western brow of a hill with relatively steep sides above the River Cherwell. For relative reference purposes, the Oxford alluvial flood plain is at 60 metres above sea level.
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Worth seeing in and around Elsfield
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.
- 01Oxford Brookes University
Oxford Brookes University is a public research university in Oxford, England. It is a new university, having received university status through the Further and Higher Education Act 1992.
3.8 km · university in Oxford, England · Wikipedia - 02Lady Margaret Hall
Lady Margaret Hall is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, located on a bank of the River Cherwell at Norham Gardens in North Oxford and adjacent to the University Parks. The college is more formally known under its current royal charter as "The Principal and Fellows of the College of the Lady Margaret in the University of Oxford".
3.5 km · college of the University of Oxford · Wikipedia - 03St Hugh's College
St Hugh's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. It is located on a 14.5-acre site on St Margaret's Road, to the north of the city centre.
3.9 km · college of the University of Oxford · Wikipedia - 04St Catherine's College
St Catherine's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford. The college developed from the St Catherine's Society; it was granted full status as a college in 1962, after a campaign by the historian Alan Bullock, who became the first master of the college, and later vice-chancellor of the university.
4 km · college of the University of Oxford · Wikipedia - 05Wolfson College
Wolfson College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Wolfson is a graduate college, with particular strengths in areas like global health, environmental studies, economics, and humanities.
3.1 km · college of the University of Oxford · Wikipedia - 06Kellogg College
Kellogg College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1990 as Rewley House, Kellogg is the university's 36th college and the largest by number of students both full and part-time.
3.9 km · college of the University of Oxford · Wikipedia - 07Linacre College
Linacre College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. The college was founded in 1962 and is named after Thomas Linacre, founder of the Royal College of Physicians as well as a distinguished renaissance humanist.
3.8 km · college of the University of Oxford · Wikipedia - 08Headington Shark
Untitled 1986, commonly known as the Headington Shark, is a rooftop sculpture located at 2 New High Street, Headington, Oxford, England, depicting a large shark embedded head-first in the roof of a house. It was protest art, put up without permission, to be symbolic of bombs crashing into buildings.
3.3 km · sculpture in Oxford, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Wolvercote Cemetery
Wolvercote Cemetery is a cemetery in the parish of Wolvercote and district of Cutteslowe in Oxford, England. Its main entrance is on Banbury Road, and it has a side entrance in Five Mile Drive.
3.7 km · cemetery in the parish of Wolvercote, Oxford · Wikipedia - 10Wycliffe Hall
Wycliffe Hall is a permanent private hall of the University of Oxford affiliated with the Church of England, specialising in philosophy, theology, and religion. It is named after the Bible translator and reformer John Wycliffe, who was master of Balliol College, Oxford in the 14th century.
4 km · church of England theological college of the University of Oxford · Wikipedia
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Getting to Elsfield
- Airports
- London Luton (LTN), 59 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 63 km · Birmingham (BHX), 82 km
- London → Elsfield81 km · quickest by road, 2h · £8–11
- Luton, Luton → Elsfield56 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £7–9
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Elsfield90 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £11–15
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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.
No local-transport research exists yet for Elsfield
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 Elsfield. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Elsfield
Elsfield is 41 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Woodeatonvillage and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England1.9 km
- Nokevillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England2.9 km
- Headingtonsuburb of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK2.6 km
- Beckleyvillage in Oxfordshire, UK2.7 km
- Summertownsuburb of Oxford, England3.4 km
- Oxford University Parksparkland area northeast of the city centre in Oxford, England3.8 km