Lewknor

Worth seeing in and around Lewknor

9 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
   Shirburn Castle

   Shirburn Castle is a Grade I listed, moated castle located at the village of Shirburn, near Watlington, Oxfordshire. Originally constructed in the fourteenth century, it was renovated and remodelled in the Georgian era by Thomas Parker, the first Earl of Macclesfield who made it his family seat, and altered further in the early nineteenth century.

   2.4 km · medieval castle in Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Garsington Opera

   Garsington Opera is an annual summer opera festival founded in 1989 by Leonard Ingrams. The Philharmonia Orchestra and The English Concert are its two resident orchestras.

   3.9 km · annual opera festival · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Wormsley Park

   Wormsley is a private estate of Mark Getty and his family, set in 2,700-acre of rolling countryside in the Chiltern Hills of Buckinghamshire, England. Acquired by Sir Paul Getty in 1985, the estate forms part of Hambleden valley, running from Stokenchurch to Turville.

   3.8 km · country house in Buckinghamshire, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   All Saints Church, Shirburn

   All Saints' Church is the redundant Church of England parish church of the parish of Shirburn, Oxfordshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building, and is in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

   2.5 km · grade II listed church in Shirburn, South Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Watlington White Mark

   Watlington White Mark is a chalk hill figure located on Watlington Hill, a mile from the village of Watlington, Oxfordshire. It is 270 feet tall and 36 feet wide, and is one of several hill figures cut into the Chilterns, alongside the Whiteleaf Cross, Bledlow Cross and Whipsnade White Lion.

   4 km · hill figure in Oxfordshire, England · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Adwell House

   Adwell House, Adwell, Oxfordshire, is a Grade II* listed building and the family seat of the Birch Reynardson family.

   2.8 km · Grade II listed building in Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
7. 07
   St Mary's Church, Pyrton

   St Mary's Church is the Church of England parish church of Pyrton, Oxfordshire, England. Its parish is part of the benefice of Icknield, in the deanery of Aston and Cuddesdon, the archdeaconry of Oxford and the diocese of Oxford.

   3.3 km · church in Pyrton, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Stokenchurch BT Tower

   Stokenchurch BT Tower is a telecommunications tower built of reinforced concrete at Stokenchurch, Buckinghamshire, England. Reaching to 340.5 metres above mean sea level, it dates from 1963 and is 99.4 metres tall.

   3.1 km · telecommunications tower in Stokenchurch, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Shirburn Hill

   Shirburn Hill is a 63.7-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest just outside and to the northeast of Watlington, Oxfordshire. The hill has chalk grassland, chalk heath, scrub and broadleaved woodland.

   2.1 km · hill in Oxfordshire · Wikipedia

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Getting to Lewknor

Airports

London Heathrow (LHR), 42 km · London Luton (LTN), 47 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 80 km

Stations

Aston Rowant railway station, 1.4 km · Kingston Crossing Halt railway station, 2.9 km

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