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Shipton-on-Cherwell and Thrupp

Shipton-on-Cherwell and Thrupp is a civil parish in the Cherwell district, in the county of Oxfordshire, England.

Shipton-on-Cherwell and Thrupp
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The place

Shipton-on-Cherwell and Thrupp is a civil parish in the Cherwell district, in the county of Oxfordshire, England. It was formed in 1955 by removing the hamlet of Thrupp from the parish of Kidlington and merging it with the parish of Shipton-on-Cherwell. It covers 6.04 km2 and as at the 2011 census had 493 residents.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Shipton-on-Cherwell and Thrupp

8 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
    Blenheim Palace

    Blenheim Palace is a country house in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. It is the seat of the Dukes of Marlborough, and the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill.

    4 km · country house near Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Diocese of Oxford

    The Diocese of Oxford is a Church of England diocese that forms part of the Province of Canterbury. The diocese is led by the Bishop of Oxford, and the bishop's seat is at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

    1.2 km · Church of England diocese that forms part of the Province of Canterbury · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Begbroke Science Park

    Oxford University Science Park, Begbroke is a science park located around five miles north of Oxford, England. It is the only science park wholly owned and managed by Oxford University and sits within the university's Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division.

    2.7 km · science park of Oxford University · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Martin's Church, Bladon

    St Martin's Church in Bladon near Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, is the Church of England parish church of Bladon-with-Woodstock. It is also the mother church of St Mary Magdalene at Woodstock, which was originally a chapel of ease.

    3.5 km · church in Bladon near Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Bletchingdon Park

    Bletchington Park is a Grade II* listed Palladian country house in Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire, England.

    3.1 km · country house in Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Oxford Zoo

    Oxford Zoo was a zoo in Kidlington, just north of the city of Oxford in Oxfordshire, England. It was opened in 1931 and closed in 1937.

    3.7 km · Defunct zoo · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Town Hall

    Woodstock Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Place in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. The building, which is used as a community events venue and the headquarters of Woodstock Town Council, is a Grade II listed building.

    3.7 km · town hall in Woodstock, West Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Oxfordshire Museum

    The Oxfordshire Museum is in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, located in Fletcher's House, Park Street, opposite the Bear Hotel. It is a regional museum covering the county of Oxfordshire.

    3.8 km · museum in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom · 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.

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Getting to Shipton-on-Cherwell and Thrupp

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 64 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 71 km · Birmingham (BHX), 75 km
Stations
London Oxford Airport, 1.3 km · Blenheim and Woodstock railway station, 3.4 km · Bletchington railway station, 2.1 km
  • London → Shipton-on-Cherwell and Thrupp
    90 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · £9–12
  • Luton, Luton → Shipton-on-Cherwell and Thrupp
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £8–11
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Shipton-on-Cherwell and Thrupp
    81 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £10–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Shipton-on-Cherwell and Thrupp

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 Shipton-on-Cherwell and Thrupp. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inOxford Airport (OXF) 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.

From Wikivoyage: Oxfordshire, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-07.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    128 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    244 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    453 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    486 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    522 km

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Around it

Next door to Shipton-on-Cherwell and Thrupp

Shipton-on-Cherwell and Thrupp is 49 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Woodstocktown and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, northwest of Oxford3.5 km
  • Kidlingtontown and civil parish in Cherwell, Oxfordshire, England2.3 km
  • Begbrokevillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England2.5 km
  • Bletchingdonvillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England2.9 km
  • Kirtlingtonvillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England4 km
  • Yarntonvillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England3.5 km