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Swinbrook

Swinbrook is a village in the civil parish of Swinbrook and Widford, in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England.

Swinbrook
Swinbrook · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Swinbrook is a village in the civil parish of Swinbrook and Widford, in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England. It is on the River Windrush, about 2 miles (3 km) east of Burford. Widford is a hamlet about 0.5 miles (800 m) west of Swinbrook. The 2011 Census recorded the population of Swinbrook and Widford as 139.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Swinbrook

6 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
    Crocodiles of the World

    Crocodiles of the World is a zoo in Brize Norton, Oxfordshire in the United Kingdom specialising in crocodilia.

    3.4 km · zoo in Oxfordshire, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Asthall Barrow: an Anglo-Saxon burial mound 100m SSW of Barrow Farm

    Asthall barrow is a high-status Anglo-Saxon burial mound from the seventh century AD. It is located in Asthall, Oxfordshire, and was excavated in 1923 and 1924.

    2.2 km · archaeological site in Asthall, West Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St John the Baptist, Burford

    The Anglican Church of St John the Baptist in Burford, Oxfordshire, England, is a Grade I listed building. The Church of England parish church is dedicated to Saint John the Baptist, and is described by David Verey as "a complicated building which has developed in a curious way from the Norman".

    2.8 km · Grade I listed church in Burford, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Burford Methodist Church

    Burford Methodist Church is a baroque building in the High Street of Burford, Oxfordshire. It was built between about 1715 and 1730 as a private house and converted in 1849 to a Wesleyan Chapel.

    2.9 km · church in Burford, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Asthall Manor

    Asthall Manor is a gabled Jacobean Cotswold manor house in Asthall, Oxfordshire. It was built in about 1620 and altered and enlarged in about 1916.

    900 m · English country house in Asthal, West Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Burford Tolsey Museum

    The Burford Tolsey Museum is a local museum in the town of Burford, west Oxfordshire, England. It is located in a Tudor style structure, known as The Tolsey, and was formerly where market tolls were collected and where town meetings may have been held in the upper chamber.

    3 km · museum, formerly town hall and market hall, in Burford, West Oxfordshire, England, UK · 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.

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Getting to Swinbrook

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 73 km · London Luton (LTN), 85 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 87 km
  • London → Swinbrook
    107 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £11–14
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Swinbrook
    78 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £10–14
  • Luton, Luton → Swinbrook
    81 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £11–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Swinbrook

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 Swinbrook. 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

    126 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    224 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    473 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    480 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    516 km

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

Around it

Next door to Swinbrook

Swinbrook is 58 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Burfordtown and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, England3 km
  • Minster Lovellvillage and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, England3.5 km
  • Shiltonvillage and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, England3.8 km
  • Asthallvillage and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, England1.1 km
  • Fulbrookvillage and civil parish in Oxfordshire, UK2.3 km
  • Swinbrook and Widfordcivil parish in West Oxfordshire, England500 m