Wytham
Wytham is a village and civil parish on the Seacourt Stream, a branch of the River Thames, about 3 miles (5 km) northwest of the centre of Oxford.
Wytham is a village and civil parish on the Seacourt Stream, a branch of the River Thames, about 3 miles (5 km) northwest of the centre of Oxford. It is just west of the Western By-Pass Road, part of the Oxford Ring Road (A34). The nearest village is Godstow. Wytham was the northernmost part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire.
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Worth seeing in and around Wytham
10 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.
- 01Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press is the publishing house of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world.
3.7 km · publishing arm of the University of Oxford · Wikipedia - 02St Antony's College
St Antony's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1950 as the result of the gift of French merchant Sir Antonin Besse of Aden, St Antony's specialises in international relations, economics, politics, and area studies relative to Europe, Russia, former Soviet states, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Japan, China, and South and South East Asia.
3.8 km · college of the University of Oxford · Wikipedia - 03St Hugh's College
St Hugh's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. It is located on a 14.5-acre site on St Margaret's Road, to the north of the city centre.
3.6 km · college of the University of Oxford · Wikipedia - 04Green Templeton College
Green Templeton College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. The college is located on the former Green College site on Woodstock Road next to the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter in North Oxford and is centred on the architecturally important Radcliffe Observatory, an 18th-century building, modelled on the ancient Tower of the Winds in Athens.
3.9 km · college of the University of Oxford · Wikipedia - 05Radcliffe Observatory
Radcliffe Observatory was the astronomical observatory of the University of Oxford from 1773 until 1934, when the Radcliffe Trustees sold it and built a new observatory in Pretoria, South Africa. It is a Grade I listed building.
3.9 km · Grade I listed observatory in Oxford, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 06St Anne's College
St Anne's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It was founded in 1879 and gained full college status in 1959.
3.9 km · college of Oxford University, England · Wikipedia - 07Kellogg College
Kellogg College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1990 as Rewley House, Kellogg is the university's 36th college and the largest by number of students both full and part-time.
4 km · college of the University of Oxford · Wikipedia - 08Wolvercote Cemetery
Wolvercote Cemetery is a cemetery in the parish of Wolvercote and district of Cutteslowe in Oxford, England. Its main entrance is on Banbury Road, and it has a side entrance in Five Mile Drive.
3.1 km · cemetery in the parish of Wolvercote, Oxford · Wikipedia - 09Oxford Internet Institute
The Oxford Internet Institute is a multidisciplinary department at the Social Sciences Division at the University of Oxford in Oxford, England, United Kingdom. It focuses on the study of social, economic, and political dimensions of digital technologies.
3.9 km · research institute · Wikipedia - 10Blavatnik School of Government
The Blavatnik School of Government is the school of public policy at the Social Sciences Division at the University of Oxford in Oxford, England, United Kingdom. The school was founded in 2010 following a £75 million donation from business magnate Len Blavatnik, supported by £26 million from the University of Oxford.
3.9 km · Public policy school of Oxford University · Wikipedia
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Getting to Wytham
- Airports
- London Luton (LTN), 66 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 68 km · Birmingham (BHX), 81 km
- Stations
- Oxford Parkway railway station, 3.9 km
- London → Wytham62 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £6–9
- Luton, Luton → Wytham73 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £10–13
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Wytham189 km · quickest by road, 3h 24m · £21–28
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Wytham
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 Wytham. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Wytham
Wytham is 43 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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