Headington
Headington is an eastern suburb of Oxford, in the county of Oxfordshire, England.
Headington is an eastern suburb of Oxford, in the county of Oxfordshire, England. It is at the top of Headington Hill overlooking the city in the Thames valley below, and bordering Marston to the north-west, Cowley to the south, and Barton and Risinghurst to the east. The life of the large residential area is centred upon London Road, the main road between London and Oxford.
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Getting to Headington
- Airports
- London Luton (LTN), 59 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 61 km · Birmingham (BHX), 85 km
- London → Headington80 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · £8–10
- Luton, Luton → Headington56 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £6–9
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Headington93 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £12–15
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 Headington
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 Headington. 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.
From Wikivoyage: Oxford, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Headington
Headington is 38 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.