Things To Do in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds

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  1. Add Freedom of the Press Winery to your Itinerary

    Freedom of the Press Winery

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    Vineyard

    Minster Lovell

    A micro-winery in the Cotswolds making premium, modern wines from English grapes.

  2. Add Hailey - St John the Evangelist Church to your Itinerary

    Hailey - St John the Evangelist Church

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    Hailey

    St John the Evangelist is Victorian, built in 1868/9 to replace an 18th century church close by. Built in the French Gothic style with prominent buttresses and an unusual bell turret.

  3. Add Finstock - Holy Trinity Church to your Itinerary

    Finstock - Holy Trinity Church

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    Finstock

    Holy Trinity was built in Gothic Revival style in 1841, though then it only consisted of the nave. The chancel was added in 1905 - then intention was to demolish and rebuild the nave as well but the money available didn't match the vicar's ambitions…

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  1. Add Cogges Manor Farm to your Itinerary

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    Cogges Manor Farm

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    Heritage/Visitor Centre

    Witney

    Cogges Manor Farm is a historic farmstead and home to Downton Abbey’s Yew Tree Farm. It is a beautifully preserved collection of farm buildings, manor house, and walled garden, set in its own grounds, with farm animals, outdoor adventure play and…

  2. Add North Leigh - St Mary's Church to your Itinerary

    North Leigh - St Mary's Church

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    North Leigh

    An architecturally fascinating church: the church is late Anglo-Saxon in origin with the bell tower probably built in the first half of the 11th century.

  3. Add Minster Lovell - St Kenelm's Church to your Itinerary

    Minster Lovell - St Kenelm's Church

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    Minster Lovell

    St Kenelm's church in Minster Lovell is mainly 15th century, built on the foundations of an earlier priory minster.

  4. Add Leafield - St Michael and All Angels Church to your Itinerary

    Leafield - St Michael and All Angels Church

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    Leafield

    The present church was built in 1859-60 to a design by Sir George Gilbert Scott, one of a trio of eminent Victorian architects. The original spire was rebuilt in 1865 and further shortened in 1934. Even so, the church is visible for many miles…

  5. Add Combe Mill to your Itinerary

    Combe Mill

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    Heritage/Visitor Centre

    Witney

    A 19th century sawmill with rare working steam beam engine and waterwheel. Other small steam engines and model engines. Rural artefacts, visiting craftsmen and working forge

  6. Add Bishop's Palace to your Itinerary

    Bishop's Palace

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    Historic Site

    Church Green, Witney

    The remains of the ‘Bishop’s Palace’ are situated in the grounds of Mount House, just east of St Mary’s Church in Witney. In reality the ‘palace’ was a manor house, one of the earliest and largest of its type, the working centre of the estates owned…

  7. Add Ducklington - St Bartholomew's Church to your Itinerary

    Ducklington - St Bartholomew's Church

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    Ducklington

    The present plan of the church was established during the 12th century (apart from the chancel, which was added a little later). However, changes (particularly to the doors and windows) were made during the 13th century.

  8. Add Charlbury - St Mary the Virgin Church to your Itinerary

    Charlbury - St Mary the Virgin Church

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    Charlbury

    Parts of the present building date from the 12th century, though a Saxon church may have existed on the same site.

  9. Add Combe - St Laurence's Church to your Itinerary

    Combe - St Laurence's Church

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    Combe

    St Laurence, a place of worship for more than 600 years, has a number of interesting features including 15th century wall painitings, a 1634 pulpit cloth. and several bale tombs in the churchyard.

  10. Add The Leys to your Itinerary

    The Leys

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    Family Fun

    WITNEY

    Just a short walk from Witney High Street and Church Green lies The Leys park. A lovely, large open space with tree-lined paths, a cafe and lots to do, including a fantastic play area with seasonal splash park, tennis courts, skate park and…

  11. Add Charlbury Museum to your Itinerary

    Charlbury Museum

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    Museum

    Charlbury, Chipping Norton

    Charlbury Museum is an independent museum, run entirely by volunteers. Its five rooms are crammed with exhibits revealing the history of this ancient market town. There is plenty here to interest both adults and children.

  12. Add South Leigh - St James the Great Church to your Itinerary

    South Leigh - St James the Great Church

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    South Leigh

    St James the Great is full of interest with several fine medieval wall paintings, some very old stained glass, a 15th century font, and a 16th brass. The pulpit is Jacobean and it was here that John Wesley, who went on to found Methodism, preached…

  13. Add Cineworld (Witney) to your Itinerary

    Cineworld (Witney)

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    Cinema

    Witney

    Modern five screen multiplex cinema set in the Marriotts Walk Shopping Centre in Witney.

    Rated Disabled Friendly by The Advance & Cottsway Disability Group

    "Automatic, press button. Fairly easy but double doors made access slightly more…

  14. Add Shorthampton - All Saints Church to your Itinerary

    Shorthampton - All Saints Church

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    Chipping Norton

    The hamlet of Shorthampton consists of little more than a farm and the church. The church has an usual, boxlike appearance: no tower or spire, shallow roofs and square headed windows. Inside there are a number of unusual features but what…

  15. Add Swinbrook - St Mary's Church to your Itinerary

    Swinbrook - St Mary's Church

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    Church/Chapel

    Burford

    Near the porch are headstones to three of the Mitford sisters, Nancy, Unity and Diana Mitford. Their parents, and a fourth sister Pamela, are buried elsewhere in the churchyard. There is a plaque to their brother, Tom, inside the church.

  16. Add Rushy Common Nature Reserve to your Itinerary

    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.

  17. Add The Garden Spa at Minster Mill to your Itinerary

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    The Garden Spa at Minster Mill

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    Hotel Spa

    Minster Lovell

    The Garden Spa is a tranquil haven in the heart of Minster Mill’s beautiful grounds - 65 acres of glorious gardens, wildflower meadows and peaceful woodland in the picture-perfect Cotswold village of Minster Lovell.

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St Oswald's Church at Widford (photo Helena Sylvester)