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....
Chipping Norton is a bustling, buzzing, working Cotswold market town at the ‘Gateway to the Cotswolds’ boasting a packed agenda of local festivals,...
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...
Long Hanborough is a large village with an attractive mixture of thatched, stone, slate and tile roofed cottages. Lying between Witney and Woodstock,...
A hidden gem of the Oxfordshire Cotswolds, set on the side of the valley above the River Swere and looking as if time has completely stood still. A...
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...
For a small village, Asthall is rich in history: a former Roman settlement on Akeman Street, which linked Cirencester with St Albans; the village...
Enstone was originally recorded as Henestan in the Domesday Book of 1086 and as Enestan and Ennestan in records held at Winchcombe Abbey from 1185....
Idbury, close to the Westcotes and enjoying the same extensive views across the Evenlode Valley from just off the high road between Stow and...
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,...
Freeland's name derives from the Old English word, fyrth, meaning a wood and the village developed as a ribbon community along the old road between...
Near to Bampton, this village is worth a visit to see the outstanding medieval wall paintings in the church. The painter William Turner (1789 -...
A long village divided into five 'ends', some of which are almost separate hamlets, it spreads itself out looking across the river Evenlode towards...
The hamlet of Cote is set amidst farming land and several 17C/18C farm houses survive. Particulary noteworthy, though, is the 18C Baptist chapel, a...
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...
An attractive village with two village greens in the broad acres of the Thames Valley, east of Lechlade set amidst good farming country, with a...
The village of Ascott under Wychwood is situated on the south side of the River Evenlode and lies on the Cotswold Railway (between Worcester and...
South Leigh lies 2½ miles (4 km) south east of Witney and 8 miles (13 km) west of Oxford. It was first mentioned in the late 12th century, by which...
A small village, close to the River Thames, handy for Oxford, and south east of Witney. Tucked away off the beaten track with plenty of walks. The...
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