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Leafield

Leafield is a village and civil parish about 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Witney in West Oxfordshire, England.

Leafield
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The place

Leafield is a village and civil parish about 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Witney in West Oxfordshire, England. The parish includes the hamlet of Langley, 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Leafield village. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 945. The village is 635 feet (194 m) above sea level in the Cotswold Hills. It was the highest point in Oxfordshire until the 1974 county boundary changes enlarged the county.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Leafield

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.

  1. 01
    Ascott Earl Castle

    Ascott Earl Castle was a castle in the village of Ascott Earl, Oxfordshire, England.

    3.7 km · motte-and-bailey castle in Ascott-under-Wychwood, West Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Leafield

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 70 km · London Luton (LTN), 81 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 85 km
Stations
Ascott-under-Wychwood railway station, 3.8 km
  • London → Leafield
    104 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £11–14
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Leafield
    76 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £10–13
  • Luton, Luton → Leafield
    78 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £10–13
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Leafield

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 Leafield. 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

    129 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    229 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    469 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    478 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    515 km

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Around it

Next door to Leafield

Leafield is 58 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.