Horspath

Worth seeing in and around Horspath

10 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 Brookes University

   Oxford Brookes University is a public research university in Oxford, England. It is a new university, having received university status through the Further and Higher Education Act 1992.

   3.8 km · university in Oxford, England · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Kassam Stadium

   The Kassam Stadium is a football stadium in Oxford, England. It is the home of Oxford United Football Club, and is named after the ground's owner and former chairman of the football club, Firoz Kassam.

   3.4 km · football stadium in Oxford, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Headington Shark

   Untitled 1986, commonly known as the Headington Shark, is a rooftop sculpture located at 2 New High Street, Headington, Oxford, England, depicting a large shark embedded head-first in the roof of a house. It was protest art, put up without permission, to be symbolic of bombs crashing into buildings.

   3.6 km · sculpture in Oxford, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Garsington Manor

   Garsington Manor, in the village of Garsington, near Oxford, England, is a country house, dating from the 17th century. Its fame derives principally from its owner in the early 20th century, the "legendary Ottoline Morrell, who held court from 1915 to 1924".

   2.9 km · country house in Garsington, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Church of All Saints, Cuddesdon

   The Church of All Saints is a Church of England parish church in Cuddesdon, Oxfordshire. The church is a grade I listed building and it dates from the 12th century.

   3.4 km · church in South Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Big Data Institute

   The Big Data Institute, part of the Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, is an interdisciplinary research institute at the University of Oxford. The institute brings together researchers from both the Nuffield Department of Population Health and the Nuffield Department of Medicine.

   3.3 km · research institute · Wikipedia
7. 07
   The Kilns

   The Kilns, also known as C. S. Lewis House, is the house in Risinghurst, Oxford, England, where the author C. S. Lewis wrote all of his Narnia books and other classics. The house itself was featured in the Narnia books.

   2.4 km · private house in England · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Oxford Science Park

   The Oxford Science Park is a science and technology park located on the southern edge of the city of Oxford, England. The 70 acre site was officially opened in 1991 and initially owned entirely by Magdalen College, Oxford, though a portion was sold in 2025 for the creation of the Ellison Institute of Technology.

   3.9 km · research park in Oxfordshire, England · Wikipedia
9. 09
   St Bartholomew's Chapel, Oxford

   St Bartholomew's Chapel, or Bartlemas Chapel, is a small, early-14th-century chapel, built as part of a leper hospital in Oxford, England. Founded in the early 12th century by Henry I, for twelve sick persons and a chaplain, it was granted to Oriel College by Edward III in 1328.

   3.7 km · church in Oxford, UK · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Templars Square

    Templars Square is a shopping centre located in Between Towns Road, Cowley, Oxford, England. It was opened in 1965 and was known as Cowley Centre until 1989.

    3 km · shopping mall in Cowley, Oxfordshire · Wikipedia

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Getting to Horspath

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