Swerford
Swerford is a village and civil parish on the River Swere in the Cotswold Hills in Oxfordshire, England.
Swerford is a village and civil parish on the River Swere in the Cotswold Hills in Oxfordshire, England. It is about 4 miles (6.4 km) northeast of Chipping Norton. Swerford has two main neighbourhoods: Church End and East End. The area between them contains very few houses and is called Between Towns. The 2011 census recorded the parish's population as 132.
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Worth seeing in and around Swerford
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.
- 01Heythrop Zoological Gardens
Heythrop Zoological Gardens was a private zoo and animal training centre in Heythrop, near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. The zoo had the largest private collection of exotic animals in the United Kingdom.
3.8 km · zoo in England · Wikipedia - 02Hook Norton Cutting and Banks
Hook Norton Cutting and Banks is a 6.7-hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Hook Norton in Oxfordshire. The site is in three areas, two of which are managed as a nature reserve called Hook Norton Cutting by Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.
1.4 km · site of Special Scientific Interest in Oxfordshire · Wikipedia
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Getting to Swerford
- Airports
- Birmingham (BHX), 56 km · London Luton (LTN), 76 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 89 km
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Swerford64 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £9–12
- London → Swerford105 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £11–14
- Luton, Luton → Swerford72 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £8–10
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No local-transport research exists yet for Swerford
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 Swerford. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Swerford – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Swerford
Swerford is 48 km from Coventry, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Hook Nortonvillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England2.7 km
- Wiggintonvillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England2.6 km
- Great Tewvillage and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, England2.5 km
- Heythropvillage and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, England3.9 km
- Little Tewvillage and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, England2.8 km