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Steeple Aston

Steeple Aston is a village and civil parish on the edge of the Cherwell Valley, in the Cherwell District of Oxfordshire, England, about 12 miles (19 km) north of Oxford, 7 miles (11 km) west of Bicester, and 10 miles (16 km) south of Banbury.

Steeple Aston
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The place

Steeple Aston is a village and civil parish on the edge of the Cherwell Valley, in the Cherwell District of Oxfordshire, England, about 12 miles (19 km) north of Oxford, 7 miles (11 km) west of Bicester, and 10 miles (16 km) south of Banbury. The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 947. The village is 108 metres (354 ft) above sea level. The River Cherwell and Oxford Canal pass 1 mile (2 km) east of the village. The river forms part of the eastern boundary of the parish. The parish's southern boundary, 1⁄2 mile (800 m) south of the village, also forms part of Cherwell District's boundary with West Oxfordshire.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Steeple Aston

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
    Rousham 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.

    1.7 km · Grade I listed English country house in West Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Barton 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.

    2.4 km · Grade II listed country house in Steeple Barton, West Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Steeple Aston

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 65 km · Birmingham (BHX), 66 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 78 km
Stations
Heyford railway station, 1.2 km
  • London → Steeple Aston
    94 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · £10–14
  • Luton, Luton → Steeple Aston
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · £8–10
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Steeple Aston
    74 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Steeple Aston

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 Steeple Aston. 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

    138 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    247 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    450 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    477 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    513 km

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Around it

Next door to Steeple Aston

Steeple Aston is 55 km from Coventry, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Upper Heyfordvillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England2.4 km
  • Lower Heyfordvillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England1.3 km
  • Somertonvillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England3.7 km
  • North Astonvillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England3.1 km
  • Duns Tewvillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England3.4 km
  • Steeple Bartonvillage and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, England3 km