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Waterstock

Waterstock is a village and civil parish on the River Thame about 4.5 miles (7 km) west of the market town of Thame in Oxfordshire.

Waterstock
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The place

Waterstock is a village and civil parish on the River Thame about 4.5 miles (7 km) west of the market town of Thame in Oxfordshire. The parish is bounded to the north and west by the river, to the south largely by the A418 main road, and to the east largely by the minor road between Tiddington and Ickford Bridge across the Thame. On the north side of the parish, the river forms the county boundary with Buckinghamshire as well as the parish boundary with Ickford and Worminghall. Waterstock village is on a minor road north of the A418 and is surrounded by open farming land. In the village are about 50 houses and a farm along one main street.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Waterstock

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.

  1. 01
    Waterperry Gardens

    Waterperry Gardens are gardens with a museum in the village of Waterperry, near Wheatley in Oxfordshire, England.

    1.2 km · garden in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Rycote House

    Rycote House the manor of Rycote, Oxfordshire, England, was a Tudor country house. First built in the early 16th century, the present site was rebuilt in the 1920s.

    3.2 km · house in Great Haseley, 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.

Go there

Getting to Waterstock

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 50 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 53 km · Birmingham (BHX), 90 km
Stations
RAF Oakley, 3.1 km
  • London → Waterstock
    71 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £7–9
  • Luton, Luton → Waterstock
    47 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · £5–7
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Waterstock
    99 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · £12–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Waterstock

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get in() 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.
  • Get inBirmingham Airport has its own railway station called Birmingham International, which is connected to the airport terminal building via the free AirRail Link cable car shuttle, taking 1–2 min.

From Wikivoyage: Oxford, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    257 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    443 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    502 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    538 km

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

Around it

Next door to Waterstock

Waterstock is 34 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Ickfordvillage and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England1.1 km
  • Worminghallvillage and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom1.9 km
  • Shabbingtonvillage and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England2.5 km
  • Waterperryvillage in Oxfordshire, England, UK1.3 km
  • Tiddingtonvillage in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom1.6 km
  • Alburyvillage in Oxfordshire, England, UK2 km