Grove

Worth seeing in and around Grove

8 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
   Wantage

   Wantage is a historic market town and civil parish at the foot of the Berkshire Downs in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England. Historically in Berkshire, it has been administered as part of Oxfordshire since 1974.

   2.3 km · market town and civil parish in Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Statue of Alfred the Great

   The statue of Alfred the Great, in the Wantage market place, was sculpted by Count Gleichen, a relative of Queen Victoria's, and unveiled on 14 July 1877 by the Prince and Princess of Wales. It was presented to the town by Robert Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage.

   2.3 km · statue in Wantage, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Church of St Peter and St Paul, Wantage

   The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a Church of England parish church in Wantage, Oxfordshire. The church is a grade-I listed building.

   2.4 km · church in Wantage, England · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Old Town Hall, Wantage

   The Old Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Place in Wantage, Oxfordshire, England. The building, which was the headquarters of Wantage Urban District Council, was converted into apartments in 2018.

   2.3 km · municipal Building in England · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Chain Hill

   Chain Hill is one of the hills of the Berkshire Downs, located in the civil parish of Wantage in the English county of Oxfordshire. In 1974 it was transferred from Berkshire.

   3 km · hill in Wantage, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Alfredian Park

   Alfredian Park is a football ground in Wantage, Oxfordshire, England, and the home of Wantage Town Football Club of the Hellenic League Division One. It has a capacity of about 1,500.

   3.1 km · football ground in Wantage · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Vale and Downland Museum

   The Vale and Downland Museum is a local history museum in the market town of Wantage, Oxfordshire, England. The Vale and Downland Museum Trust was formed in 1972.

   2.5 km · museum of local culture and history in Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Reed Hill, Oxfordshire

   Reed Hill is a 14-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Stonesfield in Oxfordshire. It partly overlaps Stonesfield Slate Mines SSSI. This sheltered dry valley has unimproved limestone grassland, secondary woodland and scrub.

   3.4 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia

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Getting to Grove

Airports

London Heathrow (LHR), 68 km · London Luton (LTN), 78 km · Bristol (BRS), 93 km

Stations

Wantage Road railway station, 1.5 km · RAF Grove, 1.2 km

• London → Grove

  90 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £10–14
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• Luton, Luton → Grove

  75 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £10–14
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• Bristol → Grove

  83 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £9–12
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No local-transport research exists yet for Grove

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 Grove. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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