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Towersey

Towersey is a village and civil parish about 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) east of Thame in Oxfordshire.

Towersey
Towersey · Tim Packer
The place

Towersey is a village and civil parish about 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) east of Thame in Oxfordshire. Towersey was part of Buckinghamshire until 1933, when the county boundary was moved and Towersey was exchanged for Kingsey. The 2011 Census recorded Towersey parish's population as 433.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Towersey

7 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
    Thame

    Thame is a market town and civil parish in Oxfordshire, England. It is located about 13 miles east of the city of Oxford, 10 miles south-west of Aylesbury and 40 miles north-west of London.

    2.5 km · market town and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Thame Abbey

    Thame Abbey was a Cistercian abbey at Thame in the English county of Oxfordshire. Thame Abbey was founded in 1137 by Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln.

    2.3 km · Cistercian abbey in Oxfordshire, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Parish Church of St Mary

    St Mary's Church is the Church of England parish church of Haddenham, Buckinghamshire. It is a Grade I listed building.

    2.8 km · Grade I listed church in Haddenham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Tythrop Park

    Tythrop Park, also known as Tythrop House, is a Grade I listed 17th-century manor house, set in 51 acres of parkland, in Kingsey, Buckinghamshire, England. According to Nikolaus Pevsner the exterior is plain and unpromising, but inside the house he describes the staircase as one of the finest in the county, with "extremely luscious openwork foliage".

    1.8 km · Grade I listed English country house in Aylesbury Vale, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Town Hall

    Thame Town Hall is a municipal building in the High Street, Thame, Oxfordshire, England. The town hall, which is the meeting place of Thame Town Council, is a Grade II listed building.

    2.9 km · town hall in Thame, South Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Thame Museum

    Thame Museum is a local museum located in the High Street of the town of Thame in Oxfordshire, England. The museum has a number of nationally important Tudor wall paintings, housed in their own room.

    3.2 km · museum in Thame, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Haddenham War Memorial

    Haddenham War Memorial is located in Church End, Haddenham, Buckinghamshire, England. It is a grade II listed building with Historic England.

    2.9 km · war Memorial located in Church End, Haddenham, Buckinghamshire, 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 Towersey

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 42 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 45 km · London Stansted (STN), 82 km
Stations
Haddenham and Thame Parkway, 3.4 km · Haddenham Airfield, 3.9 km · Haddenham (Bucks) railway station, 2.9 km
  • London → Towersey
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £7–9
  • Luton, Luton → Towersey
    39 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · £4.5–6
  • London, Essex → Towersey
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £7–9
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Towersey

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 Towersey. 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

    120 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    266 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    435 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    508 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    544 km

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

Around it

Next door to Towersey

Towersey is 32 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Haddenhamvillage in Buckinghamshire, England, UK3.4 km
  • Aston Sandfordvillage in Buckinghamshire, England, UK3.4 km
  • Kingseyvillage and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, UK1.6 km
  • Sydenhamvillage and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England3.2 km
  • Ilmervillage in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom3.6 km
  • Emmingtonvillage in Oxfordshire, England, UK3 km