Steeple Barton
Steeple Barton is a civil parish and scattered settlement on the River Dorn in West Oxfordshire, about 8+1⁄2 miles (13.7 km) east of Chipping Norton, a similar distance west of Bicester and 9 miles (14 km) south of Banbury.

Steeple Barton is a civil parish and scattered settlement on the River Dorn in West Oxfordshire, about 8+1⁄2 miles (13.7 km) east of Chipping Norton, a similar distance west of Bicester and 9 miles (14 km) south of Banbury. Most of the parish's population lives in the village of Middle Barton, about 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of the settlement of Steeple Barton. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 1,523. Much of the parish's eastern boundary is formed by the former turnpike between Oxford and Banbury, now classified the A4260 road. The minor road between Middle Barton and Kiddington forms part of the western boundary. Field boundaries form most of the rest of the boundaries of the parish.
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Worth seeing in and around Steeple Barton
3 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.
- 01Rousham 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.
3.3 km · Grade I listed English country house in West Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Barton 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.
600 m · Grade II listed country house in Steeple Barton, West Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Church of St Martin, Sandford St Martin
St Martin’s Church is a Church of England parish church in the village of Sandford St Martin, Oxfordshire, England. It serves both the village and the neighbouring hamlet of Ledwell, and has been part of the Barton Benefice of five parishes and six churches since 1975.
3.2 km · church in Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Steeple Barton
- Airports
- Birmingham (BHX), 65 km · London Luton (LTN), 68 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 79 km
- Stations
- Heyford railway station, 3.6 km
- London → Steeple Barton96 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £10–14
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Steeple Barton73 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £9–12
- Luton, Luton → Steeple Barton64 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £8–10
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No local-transport research exists yet for Steeple Barton
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 Barton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Steeple Barton is 55 km from Coventry, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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