Things to do in Oxfordshire
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Pendon Museum
Type
Museum
Pendon aims to recapture, in detailed and colourful miniature, scenes showing the beauty of the English countryside as it used to be in the years around 1930.
Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway
Type
Railway
Location
Chinnor
Steam and heritage diesel rides on 3.5 miles of ex-GWR branch line. Duration of journey approximately 45 minutes affording outstanding views across the Vale of Aylesbury.
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Cotswold Wildlife Park & Gardens
Type
Animal Collection
Location
Burford
Wildlife park in 200 acres of gardens and woodland - variety of animals from all over the world.
Chastleton House
Type
Historic House / Palace
Location
Moreton-in-Marsh
One of England's finest and most complete Jacobean houses.
Upton House
Type
Historic House / Palace
Location
Edgehill, near Banbury
NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY
20th Century oil millionaire's country mansion. It houses the internationally renowned Bearsted art collection that includes paintings by Bruegel and Hogarth, Brussels Tapestries, Sevres Porcelain and Chelsea figures.Didcot Railway Centre
Type
Railway
Location
Didcot
Living museum recreating the golden age of the Great Western Railway. Steam locomotives and trains, Brunel's broad gauge railway, engine shed and small relics museum.
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Bodleian Library
Type
Historic Site
Location
Oxford
See the gothic splendour of the oldest teaching and examination room, the Divinity School, take a guided tour up to Duke Humfrey's Library and visit the Exhibition Room to see treasures from the Bodleian Libraries' vast collections.
Farmer Gow's
Type
Farm
Location
Faringdon
Farmer Gow’s ~ the ‘favourite place on earth’ for lots of its young visitors.
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Stonor Park
Type
Historic House / Palace
Location
Henley-on-Thames
House built between 12th and 18thC with a 13thC chapel. Has connections with Catholicism and exhibition of the work and life of Edmund Campion, furniture, tapestries and paintings.
Mapledurham House
Type
Historic House / Palace
Location
Mapledurham
An Elizabethan manor house alongside the River Thames, containing paintings, oak staircases, and moulded ceilings. Home to the Blount family for over 500 years.
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Botanical Garden
Type
Botanic Garden
Location
Oxford
The oldest botanic garden in the UK displays over 7,000 different species in a grade 1 listed garden with exotic glasshouses, water & rock gardens and beautiful boarders. The garden has events for all ages throughout the year.
Mapledurham Watermill
Type
Water Mill
Location
Mapledurham
The last working corn and grist watermill on the Thames with parts dating from the 15thC. Flour produced is sold in the shop, and the traditional working machinery can be viewed.
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Waterperry Gardens Limited
Type
Garden
Location
Oxford
Ornamental gardens covering 8 acres of the 83 acre 18thC Waterperry estate. A Saxon village church, garden shop, quality plant centre, teashop, country life museum, art gallery are to be found within the grounds.
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Blenheim Palace
Type
Historic House / Palace
Location
Woodstock
A glorious Baroque masterpiece set in Oxfordshire's serene Cotswolds, Blenheim Palace is one of England's most iconic buildings. It's also a place with close ties to some of the most important figures in British history.
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Walk the Landscape
Type
Walking Tour
Location
Oxfordshire Cotswolds
Walk the Landscape is a family company, based near Banbury, providing walking tours and vacations in Oxfordshire and the Cotswolds for people who are interested in knowing more about the nature and history of the countryside through which they walk. It was started by Anne Martis who wanted to share...
