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Elsfield

Elsfield is an English village and civil parish about 3 miles (5 km) northeast of the centre of Oxford.

Elsfield
Elsfield · Wikimedia Commons
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Oxford 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
  2. 02
    Lady 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
  3. 03
    St 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
  4. 04
    St 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
  5. 05
    Wolfson 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
  6. 06
    Kellogg 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
  7. 07
    Linacre 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
  8. 08
    Headington 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
  9. 09
    Wolvercote 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
  10. 10
    Wycliffe 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

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.

Go there

Getting to Elsfield

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 59 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 63 km · Birmingham (BHX), 82 km
  • London → Elsfield
    81 km · quickest by road, 2h · £8–11
  • Luton, Luton → Elsfield
    56 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £7–9
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Elsfield
    90 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £11–15
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

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.

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

    122 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    248 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    451 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    494 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    530 km

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Around it

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