Oxfordshire - Places of Interest

Places of Interest

• Abingdon County Hall Museum – housed in a 17th century County Hall building
• Ashdown House – 17th century country house in the Lambourn Downs
• Ashmolean Museum - Oxford University's museum of art and archaeology
• Banbury Museum, Banbury
• Bicester Village
• Blenheim Palace and garden – UNESCO World Heritage Site
• Broughton Castle – 14th century fortified manor house
• Buscot Park, Buscot – 18th century country house and landscape garden
• Champs Chapel Museum of East Hendred – village museum in a 15th century Carthusian chapel
• Charlbury Museum
• Chastleton House – 17th century country house (limited access)
• Chiltern Hills – Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
• Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway – operated with steam and diesel locomotives
• Chipping Norton Museum
• Cholsey and Wallingford Railway
• Cogges Manor Farm Museum, Witney – a living museum of country life
• Combe Mill Museum, Long Hanborough – working museum of stationary steam engines
• Cotswold Wildlife Park and garden, Bradwell Grove, Holwell
• Cotswolds – Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
• Didcot Railway Centre – museum of the Great Western Railway
• Dorchester Abbey, Dorchester-on-Thames – 12th century church of former Augustinian abbey
• Great Coxwell Barn – 14th century Tithe barn
• Greys Court, Rotherfield Greys – 16th century country house
• Hampton Gay Manor – ruins of 16th century manor house (no website)
• Harcourt Arboretum, Nuneham Courtenay
• Heythrop Hall – 17th century country house: now a hotel, golf & country club
• Hook Norton Brewery – working Victorian "tower" brewery that offers guided tours
• Kelmscott Manor – Home of William Morris
• Mapledurham Estate – 16th century country house and 15th century watermill
• Milton Manor House – 18th century country house
• Minster Lovell Hall – dovecote and ruins of 15th century manor house
• Museum of Bygones, Claydon – private museum including stationary steam engines
• North Wessex Downs – Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
• Oxford
• Oxford Bus Museum and Morris Motors Museum, Long Hanborough
• Oxford Canal – 18th century "narrow" canal
• The Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock
• The Ridgeway
• River and Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames
• River Thames
• Rollright Stones – megalithic stone circle and Whispering Knights burial chamber, near Little Rollright
• Rousham House – 17th century country house and landscape garden
• Rycote chapel – 15th century chapel with original furnishings
• St Katharine's church, Chiselhampton – 18th century parish church with original furnishings (no website, limited access)
• St Mary's church, Iffley – 12th century Norman parish church
• Shotover Country Park, Headington
• Spiceball Country Park, Banbury
• Stanton Harcourt manor house (limited access), with garden and 15th century chapel and Pope's Tower (no website)
• Stonor House – country house and 14th century chapel of the recusant Stonor family
• Swalcliffe Tithe Barn – 15th century
• Thame Museum
• Tolsey Museum, Burford (no website)
• Uffington White Horse, Uffington Castle and Wayland's Smithy burial chamber in the White Horse Hills
• Wallingford Museum
• Wheatley Windmill – 18th century tower mill