Fencott and Murcott
Fencott and Murcott is a civil parish about 4 miles (6 km) south of Bicester in the Cherwell district of Oxfordshire, England.
Fencott and Murcott is a civil parish about 4 miles (6 km) south of Bicester in the Cherwell district of Oxfordshire, England. The parish is bounded on the north and west by the River Ray and has an area of just over 3,300 acres (1,300 ha) being 13.49 square kilometres (5.21 sq mi) inclusive of roads and watercourses. It includes the villages of Fencott and Murcott and had a population of about 251 residents in 2021. There are no shops or post offices but there is one public house, the Nut Tree Inn at Murcott. The M40 motorway passes through the northern part of the parish. The parish covers most of Otmoor, including the Otmoor RSPB nature reserve.
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Worth seeing in and around Fencott and Murcott
2 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.
- 01Whitecross Green and Oriel Woods
Whitecross Green and Oriel Woods is a 63-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Oxford and Bicester in Oxfordshire. It is owned and managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust under the name Whitecross Green Wood.
3 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 02Beckley Park
Beckley Park is an English country house located near the village of Beckley, in Oxfordshire, England. It was built in 1540 by Lord Williams of Thame, who also built a great house at Rycote, a few miles away.
3.3 km · country house in Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Fencott and Murcott
- Airports
- London Luton (LTN), 55 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 63 km · Birmingham (BHX), 80 km
- London → Fencott and Murcott81 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £9–12
- Luton, Luton → Fencott and Murcott52 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £6–9
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Fencott and Murcott88 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £11–15
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No local-transport research exists yet for Fencott and Murcott
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 Fencott and Murcott. 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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Fencott and Murcott is 44 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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