Yarnton
Yarnton is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire about 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest of Kidlington and 4 miles (6 km) northwest of Oxford.
Yarnton is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire about 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest of Kidlington and 4 miles (6 km) northwest of Oxford. The 2011 census recorded the parish's population as 2,545.
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Worth seeing in and around Yarnton
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.
- 01Wolvercote 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.
3.3 km · cemetery in the parish of Wolvercote, Oxford · Wikipedia - 02Diocese of Oxford
The Diocese of Oxford is a Church of England diocese that forms part of the Province of Canterbury. The diocese is led by the Bishop of Oxford, and the bishop's seat is at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.
2.2 km · Church of England diocese that forms part of the Province of Canterbury · Wikipedia - 03Begbroke Science Park
Oxford University Science Park, Begbroke is a science park located around five miles north of Oxford, England. It is the only science park wholly owned and managed by Oxford University and sits within the university's Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division.
800 m · science park of Oxford University · Wikipedia - 04St Martin's Church, Bladon
St Martin's Church in Bladon near Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, is the Church of England parish church of Bladon-with-Woodstock. It is also the mother church of St Mary Magdalene at Woodstock, which was originally a chapel of ease.
3.5 km · church in Bladon near Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05A34 Road Bridge
The A34 Road Bridge is a modern road bridge carrying the Oxford ring road at Oxford, England, across the River Thames. It crosses the Thames just upstream of Godstow Lock near Wolvercote on the reach to King's Lock.
3.3 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 06Duke's Cut
Duke's Cut is a short waterway in Oxfordshire, England, which connects the Oxford Canal with the River Thames via the Wolvercote Mill Stream. It is named after George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough, across whose land the waterway was cut.
2.4 km · canal in the UK · Wikipedia - 07Oxford Zoo
Oxford Zoo was a zoo in Kidlington, just north of the city of Oxford in Oxfordshire, England. It was opened in 1931 and closed in 1937.
2.3 km · Defunct zoo · Wikipedia - 08Godstow Bridge
Godstow Bridge is a road bridge across the River Thames in England at Godstow near Oxford. The bridge is just upstream of Godstow Lock on the reach to King's Lock and carries a minor road between Wolvercote and Wytham.
3.6 km · grade II listed bridge in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Cassington Canal
The Cassington Canal was an early 19th-century canal near Eynsham, Oxfordshire. The canal was built by the 4th Duke of Marlborough to provide a link between the River Thames and Cassington Mill; it later provided alternative wharfage to that at Eynsham.
4 km · canal in Oxfordshire · Wikipedia - 10Wolvercote Meadows
Wolvercote Meadows is a 7.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Oxford in Oxfordshire. Part of it is owned by the Oxford Preservation Trust.
3.2 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
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Getting to Yarnton
- Airports
- London Luton (LTN), 65 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 70 km · Birmingham (BHX), 77 km
- Stations
- London Oxford Airport, 3 km · Oxford Parkway railway station, 2.6 km
- London → Yarnton88 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £9–12
- Luton, Luton → Yarnton62 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £8–11
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Yarnton85 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £11–15
- 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 Yarnton
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 Yarnton. 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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If you know how people move in Yarnton – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Yarnton
Yarnton is 46 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Kidlingtontown and civil parish in Cherwell, Oxfordshire, England1.9 km
- Begbrokevillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England1.4 km
- Cassingtonvillage and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, England3 km
- Wythamvillage and civil parish in Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England3.7 km
- Wolvercotevillage in Oxfordshire, part of the City of Oxford, England3.2 km
- Thruppvillage in Cherwell District, Oxfordshire, UK3.2 km