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Nuneham Courtenay

Nuneham Courtenay is a village and civil parish about 5 miles (8 km) SSE of Oxford.

Nuneham Courtenay
Nuneham Courtenay · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Nuneham Courtenay is a village and civil parish about 5 miles (8 km) SSE of Oxford. It occupies several miles close to the east bank of the River Thames.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Nuneham Courtenay

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
    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.

    3.1 km · football stadium in Oxford, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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".

    4 km · country house in Garsington, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Old All Saints Church, Nuneham Courtenay

    Old All Saints Church, or Harcourt Chapel, is a redundant Church of England church near the village of Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    1.5 km · church in Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Clifton 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.

    3.9 km · bridge in Clifton Hampden, South Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Nuneham House

    Nuneham House is an eighteenth century villa in the Palladian style, set in parkland at Nuneham Courtenay in Oxfordshire, England. It is currently owned by Oxford University and is used as a retreat centre by the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University.

    1.8 km · country house in Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    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.

    3.2 km · research park in Oxfordshire, England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Carfax Conduit

    The Carfax Conduit was a water conduit that supplied the city of Oxford with water from 1610 until 1869. The conduit ran in an underground lead pipe from a spring on Hinksey Hill above the village of North Hinksey, beneath Seacourt Stream and the River Thames, to a building at Carfax in the centre of Oxford.

    2.2 km · Grade I listed building in Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Clifton 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.

    3.7 km · manor house in Clifton Hampden, South Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Nuneham Viaduct

    Nuneham Viaduct, also known as Nuneham Railway Bridge and the Black Bridge is near the town of Abingdon-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, England. It is a two-span, bowstring truss bridge that carries the Didcot to Oxford section of the Cherwell Valley Line across the River Thames between Abingdon Lock and Sandford Lock.

    3.5 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Church of St Mary and St Nicholas

    The Church of St Mary and St Nicholas is a Church of England parish church in Littlemore, Oxford, Oxfordshire. The church is a grade II* listed building.

    3.9 km · church in Littlemore, Oxford, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Nuneham Courtenay

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 57 km · London Luton (LTN), 61 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 93 km
Stations
Radley railway station, 2.7 km · Abingdon Junction railway station, 3.3 km
  • London → Nuneham Courtenay
    77 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £8–11
  • Luton, Luton → Nuneham Courtenay
    59 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · £7–9
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Nuneham Courtenay
    100 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £12–16
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Nuneham Courtenay

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 Nuneham Courtenay. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    112 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    247 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    454 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    504 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    540 km

If you know how people move in Nuneham Courtenay – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Nuneham Courtenay

Nuneham Courtenay is 30 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Radleyvillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England2.7 km
  • Berinsfieldvillage and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England3.5 km
  • Sandford-on-Thamesvillage and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England3.4 km
  • Littlemorevillage and civil parish in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England3.9 km
  • Marsh Baldonvillage and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England1.2 km
  • Clifton Hampdenvillage and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England2.5 km