South Oxfordshire

Worth seeing in and around South Oxfordshire

4 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
   Watlington

   Watlington is a market town and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England, about 7 miles south of Thame. It is near Oxfordshire's eastern edge and less than 2 miles from its border with Buckinghamshire.

   3 km · market town and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Shirburn Castle

   Shirburn Castle is a Grade I listed, moated castle located at the village of Shirburn, near Watlington, Oxfordshire. Originally constructed in the fourteenth century, it was renovated and remodelled in the Georgian era by Thomas Parker, the first Earl of Macclesfield who made it his family seat, and altered further in the early nineteenth century.

   3.9 km · medieval castle in Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   All Saints Church, Shirburn

   All Saints' Church is the redundant Church of England parish church of the parish of Shirburn, Oxfordshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building, and is in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

   3.9 km · grade II listed church in Shirburn, South Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   St Mary's Church, Pyrton

   St Mary's Church is the Church of England parish church of Pyrton, Oxfordshire, England. Its parish is part of the benefice of Icknield, in the deanery of Aston and Cuddesdon, the archdeaconry of Oxford and the diocese of Oxford.

   3 km · church in Pyrton, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to South Oxfordshire

Airports

London Heathrow (LHR), 45 km · London Luton (LTN), 53 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 82 km

Stations

Chalgrove Airfield, 3.5 km

• London → South Oxfordshire

  68 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £7–9
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• Luton, Luton → South Oxfordshire

  53 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £8–11
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• London, Essex → South Oxfordshire

  68 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £7–9
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No local-transport research exists yet for South Oxfordshire

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

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