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West Oxfordshire

West Oxfordshire is a local government district in northwest Oxfordshire, England, including towns such as Woodstock, Burford, Chipping Norton, Charlbury, Carterton and Witney, where the council is based.

West Oxfordshire
West Oxfordshire · G. Edward Johnson
The place

West Oxfordshire is a local government district in northwest Oxfordshire, England, including towns such as Woodstock, Burford, Chipping Norton, Charlbury, Carterton and Witney, where the council is based.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around West Oxfordshire

4 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
    Minster Lovell Hall

    Minster Lovell Hall is a ruin in Minster Lovell, an English village in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds. The ruins are situated by the River Windrush.

    3.6 km · ruin in Minster Lovell, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of Holy Trinity

    Holy Trinity Church, Wood Green, is a Grade II listed Victorian church in Witney, Oxfordshire. The Church was built in 1848–9, on land given by the bishop of Winchester and the duke of Marlborough; the cost was met largely from subscriptions, and a gift from the rector Charles Jerram.

    100 m · Grade 2 listed Victorian church in Witney, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Ducklington Mead

    Ducklington Mead is a 4.6-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Ducklington in Oxfordshire. This traditionally managed meadow has diverse flora, such as the rare and declining snake's-head fritillary.

    3.1 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Eynsham Hall

    Eynsham Hall is a Grade II listed mansion near North Leigh in Oxfordshire, England. The original house dating from the 1770s was largely rebuilt in the early 20th century by Ernest George.

    3.9 km · country house in North Leigh, 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 West Oxfordshire

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 76 km · London Luton (LTN), 77 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 79 km
  • London → West Oxfordshire
    102 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £10–14
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → West Oxfordshire
    76 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £10–13
  • Luton, Luton → West Oxfordshire
    75 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · £9–13
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for West Oxfordshire

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inOxford Airport (OXF) 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.

From Wikivoyage: Oxfordshire, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-07.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    124 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    231 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    467 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    485 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    521 km

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

Around it

Next door to West Oxfordshire

West Oxfordshire is 51 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Witneytown and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, England1.7 km
  • North Leighvillage and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, England3.5 km
  • Curbridgevillage and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, England3.5 km
  • Ducklingtonvillage and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, England3 km
  • Haileyvillage and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, England1.8 km
  • Crawleyvillage and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, England2.4 km