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Great Bourton

Great Bourton is a village about 3 miles (5 km) north of Banbury in Oxfordshire, England.

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The place

Great Bourton is a village about 3 miles (5 km) north of Banbury in Oxfordshire, England. It is the largest settlement in the civil parish of Bourton. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 614.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Great Bourton

4 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 Canal

    The Oxford Canal is a 78-mile narrowboat canal in southern central England linking the City of Oxford with the Coventry Canal at Hawkesbury via Banbury and Rugby. Completed in 1790, it connects to the River Thames at Oxford, and links with the Grand Union Canal, which it is combined with for 5 miles between to the villages of Braunston and Napton-on-the-Hill.

    4 km · canal in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Cropredy Bridge

    Cropredy Bridge is a bridge in north Oxfordshire, England, that carries the minor road between Cropredy and the hamlet of Williamscot. It spans the River Cherwell, which is also the boundary between the civil parishes of Wardington and Cropredy.

    1.7 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Grimsbury Reservoir

    Grimsbury Reservoir is a relatively small reservoir owned by Thames Water just off Hennef Way, near the Grimsbury estate of Banbury, Oxfordshire. A waterworks was built prior to 1947 and was expanded in the early 1960s, when Grimsbury Reservoir was built.

    3.4 km · reservoir in Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Cropredy Methodist Church

    Cropredy Methodist Church is a Methodist church in the village of Cropredy, Oxfordshire, England.

    1.8 km · church in Cropredy, Oxfordshire · 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 Great Bourton

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 48 km · London Luton (LTN), 71 km · East Midlands (EMA), 81 km
Stations
Chalcombe Road Halt railway station, 3.6 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Great Bourton
    57 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · £7–10
  • London → Great Bourton
    106 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · £12–15
  • Luton, Luton → Great Bourton
    68 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £8–11
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Great Bourton

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 Great Bourton. 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

    158 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    252 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    445 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    459 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    495 km

If you know how people move in Great Bourton – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Great Bourton

Great Bourton is 36 km from Coventry, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Cropredyvillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England1.5 km
  • Wardingtonvillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England3.6 km
  • Mollingtonvillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England2.7 km
  • Hanwellvillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England2.6 km
  • Shotteswellvillage and civil parish in Warwickshire, United Kingdom3.1 km
  • Prescotecivil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England3.9 km