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Sutton Courtenay

Sutton Courtenay is a village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse district of Oxfordshire, England.

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The place

Sutton Courtenay is a village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse district of Oxfordshire, England. It is situated on the south bank of the River Thames 2 miles (3 km) south of Abingdon-on-Thames and 3 miles (5 km) northwest of Didcot. The 2021 census recorded the parish's population as 3,055, a rise from 2,421 in 2011.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Sutton Courtenay

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.

  1. 01
    Abingdon-on-Thames

    Abingdon-on-Thames, commonly known as Abingdon, is a historic market town and civil parish on the River Thames in the Vale of the White Horse district of Oxfordshire, England. The historic county town of Berkshire, the area was occupied from the early to middle Iron Age and the remains of a late Iron Age and Roman defensive enclosure lies below the town centre.

    3.3 km · market town in Vale of White Horse, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Abingdon Abbey

    Abingdon Abbey was a Benedictine monastery in Abingdon-on-Thames in the modern county of Oxfordshire in the United Kingdom. Situated near to the River Thames, it was founded in c.

    3.2 km · Grade I listed abbey in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    The Abbey, Sutton Courtenay

    The Abbey in Sutton Courtenay is a medieval courtyard house in the English county of Oxfordshire. It is located in the Vale of White Horse near the River Thames, across the road from the twelfth-century Norman Hall and the Manor House.

    100 m · Grade I listed English country house in Sutton Courtenay, Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Didcot Railway Centre

    Didcot Railway Centre is a railway museum and preservation engineering site in Didcot, Oxfordshire, England. The site was formerly a Great Western Railway engine shed and locomotive stabling point.

    3.8 km · railway museum in Didcot, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Nicolas' Church

    The Church of Saint Nicolas is a Church of England parish church in Abingdon in the English county of Oxfordshire.

    3.2 km · church in Abingdon in the English District of Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Helen's Church, Abingdon

    St Helen's Church is a Church of England parish church in Abingdon on the bank of the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England. The church is thought to occupy the site of the Anglo-Saxon Helenstowe Nunnery.

    2.9 km · church in Abingdon on Thames, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    All Saints' Church, Sutton Courtenay

    The Church of All Saints, Sutton Courtenay is the Church of England parish church of Sutton Courtenay in Oxfordshire, England. Extant since at least the 12th century, the church has been Grade I listed since 1966.

    400 m · church in Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    FitzHarris Castle

    FitzHarris Castle was a medieval castle located near Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England.

    3.7 km · castle in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Culham Bridge

    Culham Bridge is a medieval bridge crossing a present backwater of the River Thames in England at Culham, Oxfordshire, near the town of Abingdon. The bridge crosses Swift Ditch which was at one time the main navigation channel of the River Thames until Abingdon Lock was built in 1790.

    1.8 km · bridge in Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Manor House

    The Manor House, Sutton Courtenay, is a Grade II* listed building in the Oxfordshire village, located southwest of the village green and hidden from the main road by trees. It is across the street from The Abbey, Sutton Courtenay, a medieval courtyard house.

    200 m · historic building in Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Sutton Courtenay

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 60 km · London Luton (LTN), 68 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 93 km
Stations
Appleford railway station, 2.4 km · Culham railway station, 3 km · Steventon railway station, 3.7 km
  • London → Sutton Courtenay
    81 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £9–12
  • Luton, Luton → Sutton Courtenay
    65 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £7–10
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Sutton Courtenay
    103 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · £13–17
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Sutton Courtenay

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inOxford Airport (OXF) 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.

From Wikivoyage: Oxfordshire, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-07.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    106 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    241 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    461 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    506 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    542 km

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

Around it

Next door to Sutton Courtenay

Sutton Courtenay is 30 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Appleford-on-Thamesvillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England2.5 km
  • Draytonvillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England2.6 km
  • Miltonvillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England2.3 km
  • Caldecottsuburb in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England, UK2.2 km
  • Western Valleycivil parish in Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England3.6 km