A short distance from Burford, the village overlooks the Windrush valley. The parish church is Norman, showing traces of earlier Saxon work. There…
An Abbey is recorded at Bruern as early as 1147. The monastery was small and disreputable even compared to others in the Cotswolds, with a racy…
You may go looking for two villages but in practice you’ll only find one - and a beautiful one it is - though 'officially' the small Broadwell…
The ancient market town of Eynsham began life as a small Romano-British settlement and today retains much of its medieval heritage, including 16th…
Broadwell is a small village with an attractive church, predominantly 12C/13C with a tall octagonal spire similar to that at nearby Bampton and…
Woodstock, eight miles north west of Oxford is often visited for two reasons: Blenheim Palace, birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill, and his grave…
Known across the world for blanket making, especially in North America where the Witney Point Blanket was traded in exchange for furs, the town owes…
Some of the houses in the village are 17C but in 1939 Williams-Ellis, who had designed Portmeirion in north Wales, remodelled all the cottages in…
A long village divided into five 'ends', some of which are almost separate hamlets, it spreads itself out looking across the river Evenlode towards…
Carterton is one of Oxfordshire’s newest towns and the second largest in West Oxfordshire. In 1894 the enterprising William Carter bought part of…
With its medieval bridge, old stone houses and attractive Tudor and Georgian frontages, Burford is justifiably one of the most picturesque towns in…
Though Brize Norton dates back to the middle ages, it is best known today for its RAF station, nerve centre of the RAF’s transport capabilities.…
Bladon lies on the south side of Blenheim Park and is best known for being the burial place of Sir Winston Churchill (and his wife) at St Martins…
Just north of Chipping Norton, set high on a hill and enjoying panoramic views across the valley, Great Rollright is the larger of The Rollrights,…
A beautiful and peaceful stone village on the north-east edge of the Cotswolds. Ramsden, meaning 'wild garlic valley', is another ideal base for…
The ancient market town of Bampton lies in the south of the area, not far from the River Thames. Until about 1850 it stood in the centre of a large…
The site of a fierce battle in 1387, Radcot provides one of the oldest crossing points over the River Thames. Today the village is made up of little…
Just to the north of Chipping Norton, a pretty hamlet on the edge of a fine wooded park. Its little green has an unusual Victorian memorial…
Dating back to medieval times, Milton under Wychwood is a large working village on the edge of the Evenlode valley and is one of three villages named…
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