Long Wittenham
Long Wittenham is a village and small civil parish about 3 miles (5 km) north of Didcot, and 3.5 miles (5.6 km) southeast of Abingdon.
Long Wittenham is a village and small civil parish about 3 miles (5 km) north of Didcot, and 3.5 miles (5.6 km) southeast of Abingdon. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it from Berkshire to Oxfordshire, and from the former Wallingford Rural District to the new district of South Oxfordshire.
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Worth seeing in and around Long Wittenham
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.
- 01Didcot Railway Centre
Didcot Railway Centre is a railway museum and preservation engineering site in Didcot, Oxfordshire, England. The site was formerly a Great Western Railway engine shed and locomotive stabling point.
3.5 km · railway museum in Didcot, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Dorchester Abbey
The Abbey Church of St Peter and St Paul, more usually called Dorchester Abbey, is a Church of England parish church in Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire, about 8 miles southeast of Oxford. It was formerly a Norman abbey church and was built on the site of a Saxon cathedral.
3.3 km · church in South Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Clifton Hampden Bridge
Clifton Hampden Bridge is a road bridge crossing the River Thames in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire, England, situated on the reach below Clifton Lock. Originally it joined Oxfordshire on the north bank with Berkshire on the south but in 1974 the area on the south bank was transferred from Berkshire to Oxfordshire.
2 km · bridge in Clifton Hampden, South Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Little Wittenham Bridge
Little Wittenham Bridge is a footbridge across the River Thames in England near Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. It is just downstream of Day's Lock on the reach above Benson Lock and connects Little Wittenham to Dorchester.
2.2 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05Pendon Museum
Pendon Museum is a museum in Long Wittenham, Oxfordshire, England, that displays scale models, in particular a large scene representing parts of the Vale of White Horse in the 1920s and 1930s. The scene, under construction since the 1950s and with parts dating back earlier, was inspired by detailed research into the architecture and landscape of the vale, with some models of cottages taking hundreds of hours to complete.
500 m · museum in Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 06Appleford Railway Bridge
Appleford Railway Bridge carries the Cherwell Valley Line from Didcot to Oxford across the River Thames near the village of Appleford-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England. It crosses the Thames on the reach between Clifton Lock and Culham Lock.
2.2 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 07Clifton Hampden Manor
Clifton Hampden Manor is a country house in the village of Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire, England, overlooking the River Thames. It has been a Grade II listed building since 1987.
2.2 km · manor house in Clifton Hampden, South Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Dorchester Abbey Museum
Dorchester Abbey Museum is a local museum in the village of Dorchester, Oxfordshire, England. It is attached to Dorchester Abbey.
3.2 km · Local museum in Dorchester, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 09Little Wittenham SSSI
Little Wittenham SSSI is a 68.9-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-east of Didcot in Oxfordshire. It is also a Special Area of Conservation.
2.6 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
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Getting to Long Wittenham
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 55 km · London Luton (LTN), 64 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 89 km
- Stations
- Didcot Parkway railway station, 3.6 km · Appleford railway station, 2.2 km · Culham railway station, 2.6 km
- London → Long Wittenham76 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £8–11
- Luton, Luton → Long Wittenham61 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £7–9
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Long Wittenham105 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £13–17
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No local-transport research exists yet for Long Wittenham
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 Long Wittenham. 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.
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Next door to Long Wittenham
Long Wittenham is 26 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Dorchester on Thamesvillage in Oxfordshire, UK3.2 km
- Berinsfieldvillage and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England3.8 km
- Brightwell-cum-Sotwellvillage and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England3.9 km
- Appleford-on-Thamesvillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England2 km
- Clifton Hampdenvillage and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England3.3 km
- Little Wittenhamvillage and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England1.7 km