Things To Do in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds
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Fairytale Farm
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Farm
Chipping Norton
Mixing classic fairy tales, animals and adventure play, children will love Fairytale Farm. With our exciting adventure playground, an enchanted walk with a surprise around every corner and a chance to meet our amazing animals, there is so much to…
Oxford Wet n Wild
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Theme Park / Waterpark
Wallingford
Located in Berinsfield on the stunning Queenford Lakes, Oxford Wet n Wild is a great place to have fun with family and friends.
Woodstock - St Mary Magdalene Church
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Church/Chapel
Rectory Lane, Woodstock
A musical clock that plays a different tune each day of the week and over 200 hand-embroidered kneelers - St Mary Magdalene Church was built in the reign of Henry I for the convenience of the court during royal visits to their royal hunting lodge
Churchill - All Saints Church
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Churches and Cathedrals
Churchill
All Saints’ was built in 1837 to replace the original village church, which had fallen into disrepair. The old church building is now the village Heritage Centre .
Standlake - St Giles Church
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Church/Chapel
Standlake
Like so many churches, St Giles Church is medieval in origin but much altered and restored over the years. Notable features include the unusual 14th century octagonal tower dates to the 14th century and the Victorian woodwork in the roof…
Chastleton - St Mary's Church
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Church/Chapel
Chastleton
Built in the 12th century and best know for it's brasses, the church was enlarged and refenestrated in the 14th century and has a south bell tower that was added in 1689 and whose crenellations echo those of Chastleton House.
Oxford Bus Museum
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Museum
Long Hanborough, Witney
A museum containing 30 preserved buses dating back to 1913, an 1881 horse drawn tram, the Morris Motors Museum with vehicles from 1925 to 1977 and 45 vintage bicycles dating back to 1817.
Burford - St John the Baptist Church
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Church/Chapel
Burford
Items of interest include: a memorial tablet to Henry VIII’s barber-surgeon, Edmund Harman, showing one of the earliest representations of South American Indians; the ornate, canopied tomb of Sir Lawrence and Lady Tanfield; a tablet commemorating…
Harcourt Arboretum
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Natural Feature
Nuneham Courtnay
Explore over 130 acres of the world’s rare and endangered trees.
Rushy Common Nature Reserve
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Natural Wildlife Site
Stanton Harcourt, Witney
Rushy Common and neighbouring Tar Lakes is a 30 hectare site with three lakes, left after gravel extraction in the Lower Windrush Valley, that are being managed for the benefit of people and wildlife.
Broughton Grange Gardens
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Garden
Broughton
Award winning gardens that merge beautifully with the surrounding countryside. It is one of the most significant private contemporary gardens in Britain.
Bladon - St Martin's Church
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Church/Chapel
Bladon, Woodstock
Sir Winston Churchill, alongside his beloved wife Clementine, is buried here in the churchyard of St Martin's Church in Bladon.
Burford Tolsey Museum and Archive
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Museum
Burford
Exhibits quaintly recall the trades that flourished here - quarrying, bell-founding, rope-making, brewing, farming, leather-working and clarinet-making. There is also a famous doll's house, furnished in style of the Jane Austen period.
Chipping Norton - St Mary the Virgin Church
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Church/Chapel
Chipping Norton
A wool church and Grade I listed building, St Mary the Virgin is tucked away near the bottom of the hill on which the town sits. The setting seems incongruous, however it is here in the shadow of the church and what was once the castle, that the…
Broadwell - St Peter & St Paul's Church
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Church/Chapel
Broadwell
This large medieval cruciform church, with a north and south transept, dates back to the 12th to 14th centuries and reflects the importance of Broadwell (or Bradwell) at that time. Nowadays it stands in a small village of a few houses, with another…Widford - St Oswald's Church
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Church/Chapel
Burford
A tiny church on its own in the Windrush Valley. In 1904 it was found to have been built on the base of a Roman house or temple. Mainly 13th century it has remnants of an 11th century Saxon or Norman building, e.g. the dividing wall, a chevroned…
Kelmscott - St George's Church
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Church/Chapel
Kelmscott
Originally a chapel of ease, St George's Church in Kelmscott is practically unaltered since the close of the 15th century, thanks to William Morris, who lived at Kelmscott Manor. He was so appalled by some of the Victorian 'restoration' work being…
Swinford Museum
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Museum
Filkins
Tools and artefacts relating to domestic life and rural trades and crafts that are particular to this Cotswold village.
Bampton - St Mary's Church
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Church/Chapel
Bampton
It seems there was a church here long before the Norman Conquest, although the only surviving element before that time is the Anglo-Saxon tower with its fine herringbone stonework.
Holwell - St Mary's Church
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Church/Chapel
Holwell
Built in 1895 to replace an earlier church and medieval chapel of ease. Although some brick and some stone from the earlier churches was re-used, all the woodwork was sawn up and given to the poor as firewood or burnt on a bonfire. Thankfully some…