If You're NearbyBlenheim Palace
England
About 12 miles away
Winston Churchill's birthplace, and England's grandest baroque house.
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Burford
The gateway to the Cotswolds from Oxford, its high street sloping steeply down to a bridge over the River Windrush.
- Open
- Always
- Price
- Free
- Time Needed
- 1 hour
- Address
- High Street, BurfordDirections
- Getting There
- About 30 minutes by car west of Oxford.
Why Go
Old coaching inns, antique shops and tearooms line the hill, and the large wool church of St John the Baptist by the river is full of carved tombs. It makes a good first stop driving in from Oxford.
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Must-SeeOxford and the Cotswolds
England
About 17 miles away
Dreaming spires and old colleges, with honey-stone villages close by, and Blenheim Palace.
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Worth a DetourStratford-upon-Avon
England
About 27 miles away
Shakespeare's birthplace, and his company's great theaters.
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