Oxford
Worth seeing in and around Oxford
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.
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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.
Getting to Oxford
- Airports
- London Luton (LTN), 63 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 63 km · Birmingham (BHX), 85 km
- Stations
- Oxford railway station, 1 km
- London → Oxford83 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £9–12
- Luton, Luton → Oxford59 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £9–12
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Oxford92 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · £12–15
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Oxford
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 Oxford. 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.
From Wikivoyage: Oxford, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Oxford – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Oxford
Oxford is 38 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Cumnorvillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England5.6 km
- Kenningtonvillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England, UK3.9 km
- Sandford-on-Thamesvillage and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England4.7 km
- Littlemorevillage and civil parish in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England4.1 km
- Horspathvillage and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England5.9 km
- Sunningwellvillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England6 km