Stanton St. John
Stanton St John is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, England, about 4.5 miles (7 km) northeast of the centre of Oxford.
Stanton St John is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, England, about 4.5 miles (7 km) northeast of the centre of Oxford. The village is 330 feet (100 m) above sea level on the eastern brow of a group of hills northeast of Oxford, in a slight saddle between two of the hills.
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Worth seeing in and around Stanton St. John
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.
- 01The Kilns
The Kilns, also known as C. S. Lewis House, is the house in Risinghurst, Oxford, England, where the author C. S. Lewis wrote all of his Narnia books and other classics. The house itself was featured in the Narnia books.
3 km · private house in England · Wikipedia - 02St Andrew's Church
St Andrew's Church, Headington is a Church of England parish church in the village of Old Headington, Oxfordshire, England, now absorbed as part of the suburb of Headington in the city of Oxford. The church building is located in St Andrew's Road.
3.7 km · Grade II* listed church in Headington, Oxford, UK · Wikipedia - 03Holy Trinity Church
Holy Trinity Church, Headington Quarry, is located in the village of Headington Quarry, Oxford, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the Diocese of Oxford.
3.3 km · Anglican parish church in Headington Quarry, Oxford · Wikipedia - 04Shotover
Shotover is a hill and forest in the civil parish of Forest Hill with Shotover, in the South Oxfordshire district, in the county of Oxfordshire, England. The hill is 3 miles east of Oxford.
3.3 km · hill and forest in Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Rock Edge
Rock Edge is a 1.7-hectare former quarry and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Oxford in Oxfordshire, England. It is a Geological Conservation Review site and a Local Nature Reserve This site exposes limestone rich in coral called Coral rag, laid down when the area was under a warm, shallow sea, similar to the Bahama Banks today.
3.9 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 06Shotover Park
Shotover Park is an 18th-century country house and park near Wheatley, Oxfordshire, England. The house, garden and parkland are Grade I-listed with English Heritage, and 18 additional structures on the property are also listed.
2.4 km · Grade I listed country house in Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Church of St Mary
The Church of St Mary the Virgin is a parish church in Wheatley, Oxfordshire, in the Church of England Diocese of Oxford. The church was designed by George Edmund Street and built in 1855–57 in the Gothic Revival style.
3.7 km · church in Wheatley, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Beckley Park
Beckley Park is an English country house located near the village of Beckley, in Oxfordshire, England. It was built in 1540 by Lord Williams of Thame, who also built a great house at Rycote, a few miles away.
2.9 km · country house in Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Oxford transmitting station
The Oxford transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility, situated on land 129.5 metres above Ordnance Datum to the north east of the city of Oxford, in Oxfordshire, England. It has a guyed steel lattice mast which is 154.4 metres in height to the top of the main steel structure.
1.9 km · telecommunications site near Oxford, England · Wikipedia - 10Woodperry House
Woodperry House is a Grade I listed building in Stanton St John, South Oxfordshire, England. Woodperry was built from 1728 for John Morse, a London goldsmith and partner in Child & Co.
1.4 km · building in Stanton St John, South Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Stanton St. John
- Airports
- London Luton (LTN), 56 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 59 km · Birmingham (BHX), 85 km
- London → Stanton St. John77 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £8–11
- Luton, Luton → Stanton St. John52 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £6–8
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Stanton St. John93 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £11–15
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No local-transport research exists yet for Stanton St. John
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 Stanton St. John. 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.
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Next door to Stanton St. John
Stanton St. John is 38 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Wheatleyvillage and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England3.7 km
- Holtonvillage and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England2.9 km
- Horton-cum-Studleyvillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England3.9 km
- Headingtonsuburb of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK3.7 km
- Beckleyvillage in Oxfordshire, UK2.7 km
- Beckley and Stowoodcivil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England2.6 km