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Oxenton

Oxenton is a village and civil parish 11 miles (18 km) north east of Gloucester, in the Tewkesbury district, in the county of Gloucestershire, England.

The place

Oxenton is a village and civil parish 11 miles (18 km) north east of Gloucester, in the Tewkesbury district, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. In 2011 the parish had a population of 162. The parish touches Alderton, Ashchurch Rural, Gotherington, Teddington and Stoke Orchard. It is on the west side of Oxenton Hill, a northern outlier of the Cotswolds. Oxenton has a parish meeting.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Oxenton

3 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
    St Mary's Church

    St Mary's Church, is a historic Anglican church at Little Washbourne in the civil parish of Dumbleton, Gloucestershire, England under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.

    3.8 km · church in Little Washbourne, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Dixton Manor

    Dixton Manor is a Grade II*-listed 16th-century manor house in the south of Alderton parish, Gloucestershire, England. The manor was built for John Higford in 1555.

    2.9 km · historic site in Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Michael & All Angels Church, Bishop's Cleeve

    St Michael & All Angels is the Anglican church in the village of Bishop's Cleeve, just north of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire. Informally the church is known simply as St Michael's.

    3.7 km · church in Bishop's Cleeve, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Oxenton

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 57 km · Bristol (BRS), 80 km · East Midlands (EMA), 107 km
Stations
Ashchurch for Tewkesbury railway station, 3.7 km · Gotherington railway station, 2.3 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Oxenton
    57 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · £7–9
  • Bristol → Oxenton
    69 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · £7–10
  • London → Oxenton
    143 km · quickest by road, 3h 4m · £15–20
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Oxenton

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inAn alternative off-road walking route is The Honeybourne Line but there have been muggings at night.
  • Get inThere are also many private aircraft there, which can be chartered.
  • Go nextCirencester, the 'capital of the Cotswolds' is a half hour drive to the south Bristol is a longer day trip to the south.

From Wikivoyage: Cheltenham, 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

    153 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    201 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    448 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    484 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    496 km

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

Around it

Next door to Oxenton

Oxenton is 57 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Bishop's Cleevevillage in Gloucestershire, England, UK3.7 km
  • Gotheringtonvillage in Gloucestershire, England, UK1.8 km
  • Teddingtonvillage in Gloucestershire, England1.8 km
  • Ashchurchvillage in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom3.5 km
  • Prescottvillage and civil parish in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England3.7 km
  • Ashchurch Ruralcivil parish in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England3 km