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Shutford

Shutford is a village and civil parish in the Cherwell district, in Oxfordshire, England, about 7.2 kilometres (4.5 mi) west of Banbury.

Shutford
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The place

Shutford is a village and civil parish in the Cherwell district, in Oxfordshire, England, about 7.2 kilometres (4.5 mi) west of Banbury. The village is about 145 metres (476 ft) above sea level. In 2011 the parish had a population of 476. In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Shutford like this:"SHUTFORD, a chapelry in Swalcliffe parish, Oxford; 5 miles W of Banbury r. station. It has a postal pillar-box under Banbury. Acres, 640. Real property, £2,840. Pop., 386. Houses, 98. The living is annexed to Swalcliffe. The church was repaired in 1841. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists."

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Shutford

2 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
    Broughton Castle

    Broughton Castle is a medieval fortified manor house in the village of Broughton, which is about two miles southwest of Banbury in Oxfordshire, England, on the B4035 road. It is the home of the Fiennes family, Barons Saye and Sele.

    3.8 km · medieval manor house in Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Wroxton Abbey

    Wroxton Abbey is a Jacobean house in Oxfordshire, with a 1727 garden partly converted to the serpentine style between 1731 and 1751. It is 2.5 miles west of Banbury, off the A422 road in Wroxton.

    3.3 km · Grade I listed manor house in Cherwell, United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Getting to Shutford

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 49 km · London Luton (LTN), 76 km · East Midlands (EMA), 86 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Shutford
    56 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £7–10
  • London → Shutford
    110 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £12–16
  • Luton, Luton → Shutford
    73 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £8–11
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Shutford

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

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

    244 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    453 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    460 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    496 km

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

Around it

Next door to Shutford

Shutford is 39 km from Coventry, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Tadmartonvillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England2.3 km
  • Wroxtonvillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England3 km
  • Swalcliffevillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England2.6 km
  • Sibford Gowervillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England1.9 km
  • Broughtonvillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England4 km
  • Epwellvillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England3.1 km