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Swalcliffe

Swalcliffe is a village and civil parish about 5 miles (8 km) west of Banbury in Oxfordshire.

Swalcliffe
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Swalcliffe is a village and civil parish about 5 miles (8 km) west of Banbury in Oxfordshire. The parish is about 2+1⁄2 miles (4 km) long north–south and about 1 mile (1.6 km) east–west. The 2011 Census recorded the population of the modern Swalcliffe parish as 210. The toponym "Swalcliffe" comes from the Old English swealwe and clif, meaning a slope or cliff frequented by swallows. The ancient parish of Swalcliffe was larger than the present civil parish, and included the townships of East Shutford, Epwell, Sibford Ferris, Sibford Gower and West Shutford.

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Getting to Swalcliffe

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 50 km · London Luton (LTN), 76 km · East Midlands (EMA), 89 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Swalcliffe
    58 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £8–11
  • London → Swalcliffe
    108 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £12–16
  • Luton, Luton → Swalcliffe
    73 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £8–11
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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 Swalcliffe. 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

    150 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    242 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    455 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    462 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    498 km

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Swalcliffe is 41 km from Coventry, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.