Village in Oxfordshire, England

Besselsleigh

Besselsleigh or Bessels Leigh is an English village and civil parish about 4+1⁄2 miles (7 km) southwest of Oxford.

Every way there

London → Besselsleigh
87 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · £9–12
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Luton, Luton → Besselsleigh
66 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · £9–12
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Birmingham, West Midlands → Besselsleigh
94 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · £12–16
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The field note

What is in and around Besselsleigh, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Besselsleigh has

YScheduled flightsLondon (LHR), 67 km
NTrains and coachesno timetable feed known for this country
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Oxford, 8 km.

51.710°, -1.350°

Besselsleigh was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. The village is just off the A420 road between Oxford and Swindon.

How locals move

Getting around Besselsleigh the local way

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. Last edited 2025-07.

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