For a small village, Asthall is rich in history: a former Roman settlement on Akeman Street, which linked Cirencester with St Albans; the village…
Together with Broadwell and Kencot, Langford forms a long roadside community off the main Lechlade to Burford road, in the broad upper Thames…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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 centre of this small village is its traditional green (one of two in the village) lined by attractive old cottages, the pub and the primary…
The church spire of St. Michael’s can be seen for miles, as Leafield is a hill-top village and a centre for the Wychwood Forest. Leafield was once…
The name Combe, meaning valley, seems inappropriate for a village set on a hill top 45m above Evenlode valley floor! The village may have moved…
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…
Midway between Blenheim Great Park and the Wychwood Forest, Stonesfield enjoys a hillside position above the meandering Evenlode. The village is…
A popular centre for leisure pursuits, especially windsurfing, sailing, fishing and other watersports on the eight or so lakes which are close by…
Situated in the Evenlode Valley and traversing part of the Oxfordshire Way, this scenic village has an attractive green and still retains its 15th…
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…
A small, quiet village 2 miles south west of Burford, close to the county border with Gloucestershire, Westwell supposedly takes its name from the…
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…
Heart of the Oxfordshire Cotswolds and still a place of mystery, the area was once the ancient Royal Hunting Forest of Wychwood, much of which…
