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Plan Your Visit

Help and advice to make planning your visit easier…

In our Maps and Travel section, as well as Maps (including a downloadable map of the Oxfordshire Cotswolds, as well as local walks, car parks and toilets), you'll find pages on Getting Here and Getting About as well as more information on Parking (which is free in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds!).

Our Towns and Villages section includes an A-Z listing of all the towns and villages in the area with information on each one.

Our Accessibility Information section has information and links to help ease the stay of anyone who may need additional or specialised information in planning their visit.

Finally there is our Information Centres page – where you’ll find contact details for our information centres in Burford and Witney, where ‘local experts’ will be happy to give further advice and information to help you get the best from your visit to the Oxfordshire Cotswolds.

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Idbury

Idbury, close to the Westcotes and enjoying the same extensive views across the Evenlode Valley from just off the high road between Stow and...

Fulbrook

A short distance from Burford, the village overlooks the Windrush valley. The parish church is Norman, showing traces of earlier Saxon work. There...

Stonesfield

Midway between Blenheim Great Park and the Wychwood Forest, Stonesfield enjoys a hillside position above the meandering Evenlode. The village is...

Asthall

For a small village, Asthall is rich in history: a former Roman settlement on Akeman Street, which linked Cirencester with St Albans; the village...

Cornwell

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...

Charlbury

Set in the Evenlode Valley in the heart of the Oxfordshire Cotswolds, the market town of Charlbury grew from a small clearing in the Wychwood...

Ramsden

A beautiful and peaceful stone village on the north-east edge of the Cotswolds. Ramsden, meaning 'wild garlic valley', is another ideal base for...

Ascott under Wychwood

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...

Broadwell

Broadwell is a small village with an attractive church, predominantly 12C/13C with a tall octagonal spire similar to that at nearby Bampton and...

Bledington

Situated in the Evenlode Valley and traversing part of the Oxfordshire Way, this scenic village has an attractive green and still retains its 15th...

Churchill

A small village with many interesting buildings. All Saints Church (1827) has features modelled on three Oxford colleges. There is a Gothic...

Salford

The name of Salford originates from a crossing in the London turnpike road and an old salt track from the Midlands salt mines. Salford is a small...

Enstone

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....

Brize Norton

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....

Aston

The village of Aston, four miles south of Witney, is centred around the Square - which is actually a triangle! Often linked with the neighbouring...

Taynton

A small village close to Burford, just over a mile further up the Windrush Valley. The village was renowned in earlier times for its stone...

Glympton

Glympton is a charming little village on the River Glyme, 3 miles north of Woodstock. The village was once grouped around the parish church but in...

Tackley

Tucked away close to the Oxford Canal, the River Cherwell and north east of Woodstock, this character village has many stone buildings and its...

Chadlington

A long village divided into five 'ends', some of which are almost separate hamlets, it spreads itself out looking across the river Evenlode towards...

Minster Lovell

This pretty village of Cotswold stone and thatched roofs is romantically positioned on the River Windrush. Reputedly the region’s most haunted...

Idbury

Idbury, close to the Westcotes and enjoying the same extensive views across the...

Fulbrook

A short distance from Burford, the village overlooks the Windrush valley. The...

Stonesfield

Midway between Blenheim Great Park and the Wychwood Forest, Stonesfield enjoys a...

Asthall

For a small village, Asthall is rich in history: a former Roman settlement on...

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Information for visitors on accessible accommodation, attractions, leisure facilities, walks, places to eat, public transport, taxis, parking and public toilets.