Rousham
Rousham is a village and civil parish beside the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire.
Rousham is a village and civil parish beside the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire. The village is about 6+1⁄2 miles (10.5 km) west of Bicester and about 6 miles (10 km) north of Kidlington. The parish is bounded by the River Cherwell in the east, the A4260 main road between Oxford and Banbury in the west, partly by the B4030 in the north, and by field boundaries with Tackley parish in the south. The 2001 Census recorded the parish's population as 80. Rousham was founded early in the Anglo-Saxon era. Its toponym is derived from Old English meaning Hrothwulf's ham or farm.
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Worth seeing in and around Rousham
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.
- 01Rousham House
Rousham House is a country house at Rousham in Oxfordshire, England. The house, which has been continuously in the ownership of one family, was built circa 1635 and remodelled by William Kent in the 18th century in a free Gothic style.
100 m · Grade I listed English country house in West Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Aves ditch
Aves Ditch is an Iron Age ditch and bank structure running about 3 miles on a northeast to southwest alignment in the Cherwell District of Oxfordshire. It was once believed to have been a Roman road but excavation has shown it to be a boundary dyke of Iron Age date that was reused in the Anglo-Saxon period.
3.1 km · archaeological site in Oxfordshire · Wikipedia - 03Barton Abbey
Barton Abbey is a privately owned house in Oxfordshire, England, in the parish of Steeple Barton. Parts of the building date from the 16th century but the majority of the structure is Victorian.
2.9 km · Grade II listed country house in Steeple Barton, West Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Rousham
- Airports
- London Luton (LTN), 64 km · Birmingham (BHX), 67 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 76 km
- Stations
- Tackley railway station, 3.6 km · Heyford railway station, 700 m
- London → Rousham93 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £10–14
- Luton, Luton → Rousham61 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £8–10
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Rousham75 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £10–13
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No local-transport research exists yet for Rousham
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 Rousham. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Rousham
Rousham is 56 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Upper Heyfordvillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England2.7 km
- Steeple Astonvillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England1.7 km
- Tackleyvillage and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, England3.6 km
- Lower Heyfordvillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England1 km
- Steeple Bartonvillage and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, England3.4 km
- Middle Astonvillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England2.9 km