Garford
Garford is a village and civil parish about 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Abingdon.
Garford is a village and civil parish about 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Abingdon. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. The parish is bounded by the River Ock to the north, by two tributaries of the Ock to the south, and by field boundaries and the road between Kingston Bagpuize and West Hanney to the west. The 2011 census recorded the parish's population as 229.
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Worth seeing in and around Garford
One place 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.
- 01Denman College
Denman, formally Denman College, was a residential adult education college centred on what was Marcham Park at Marcham in the English county of Oxfordshire. Founded by the National Federation of Women’s Institutes in 1948, Denman offered day schools and residential courses in cookery, craft and lifestyle, as well a variety of events, conferences and weddings.
2.5 km · adult education college in England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Garford
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 67 km · London Luton (LTN), 74 km · Birmingham (BHX), 92 km
- London → Garford7 km · quickest by road, 34 min · £0.5–1
- Luton, Luton → Garford71 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £10–13
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Garford98 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £12–17
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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 Garford
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 Garford. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Garford
Garford is 36 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- East Hanneyvillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England3.6 km
- Marchamvillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England2.7 km
- West Hanneyvillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England3.9 km
- Frilfordvillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England1.7 km
- Kingston Bagpuizevillage in Oxfordshire, England, UK3.1 km
- Tubneyvillage in Oxfordshire, England, UK2.8 km