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Wolvercote

Wolvercote is a village in the Oxford district, in the county of Oxfordshire, England.

Wolvercote
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The place

Wolvercote is a village in the Oxford district, in the county of Oxfordshire, England. It is about 3 miles (5 km) northwest of the city centre, on the northern edge of Wolvercote Common, which is itself north of Port Meadow and adjoins the River Thames.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Wolvercote

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 64 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 67 km · Birmingham (BHX), 81 km
  • London → Wolvercote
    86 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £8–11
  • Luton, Luton → Wolvercote
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £8–11
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Wolvercote
    88 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £11–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Wolvercote

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 Wolvercote. 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

    122 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    244 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    455 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    492 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    528 km

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Next door to Wolvercote

Wolvercote is 43 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.