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9.9milesBlenheim Palace
Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, OX201PX
Blenheim Palace, the Formal Gardens and Park are now open daily until 29th October.From 1st November, the Palace, Park and Gardens are open Wednesdays through to Sundays until 10th December.
10.6milesStowe House
Stowe House, Stowe, MK185EH
Stowe is a 100ha (250-acre) work of art, both beautiful and full of meaning. With its ornamental lakes, glorious open spaces and wooded valleys, adorned by over 40 temples and monuments, it is one of the supreme creations of the Georgian era and has inspired writers, artists and visitors for more than three centuries.
9.9milesWaddesdon Manor
Waddesdon Manor, Waddesdon, HP180JH
Completed in 1889 Waddesdon Manor is the last remaining example of 'le style Rothschild'. Waddesdon Manor houses one of the finest collections of French 18th century decorative arts in the world.
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6.6milesRousham House
, Rousham, OX254QX
Rousham House is a Jacobean style country house in Oxfordshire, England. The house has been in the ownership of one family since it was built.
8.4milesClaydon House
Middle Claydon, MK182EY
The extraordinary architecture of Claydon House includes extravagant rococo and chinoiserie decoration. Features of the house include the unique Chinese Room and parquetry Grand Stairs.
9.5milesOxfordshire Museum
Fletchers House, Woodstock, OX201SN
Situated at the heart of the historic town of Woodstock, the award-winning redevelopment of Fletcher's House provides a home for the new county museum.Set in attractive gardens, the new museum celebrates Oxfordshire in all its diversity and features collections of local history, art, archaeology, landscape and wildlife as well as a gallery exploring the county's innovative industries from nuclear power to nanotechnology.
9.8milesBuckinghamshire Railway Centre
, HP224BY
Buckinghamshire Railway Centre is a working steam museum where you can step back in time as you stroll amongst the giants of the steam age displayed at its spacious 25 acre site.The Centre boasts one of the largest private railway collections in the country with many steam locomotives from express passenger types to the humble shunting engine, as well as numerous interesting items of rolling stock.
10.8milesPitt Rivers Museum
South Parks Road, Oxford, OX13PP
The Pitt Rivers Museum is the University of Oxford's museum of anthropology and world archaeology. Founded in 1884 following a gift to the University from General Pitt Rivers it retains its unique period atmosphere with dense displays of artefacts, many in the original wooden display cabinets.
11milesLong Crendon Courthouse
Long Crendon Courthouse, Long Crendon, HP189AN
Set in an attractive and unspoilt village, this building with its timbered, whitewashed and tiled faade was probably first used as a wool store. It is a fine example of early timber frame construction.
11milesSt Edmund Hall
College of Oxford University, Queens Lane, Oxford, OX14AR
St. Edmund Hall, the oldest continuing seat of education at the University of Oxford, is fortunate to have five special collections of books, and a general collection of antiquarian books.
11milesMuseum of Oxford
Old Ashmolean Building, Broad Street, Oxford, OX13AZ
The Museum of Oxford is the only museum that is dedicated to the history of Oxford and its University. Town Hall, Oxford The museum is located in the historic Town Hall, and the entrance is off St Aldate's on the corner of Blue Boar Street.
11milesAshmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
Beaumont Street, North Leigh, OX12PH
The collections of the Department of Antiquities cover almost the entire span of human history from the Lower Palaeolithic to the Victorian era. They incorporate the surviving parts of the Museum's earliest collections, notably the founding collections of the Tradescants which were donated to the University by Elias Ashmole in 1683.
11.1milesUniversity of Oxford Botanic Garden
Rose Lane, Oxford, OX14AZ
Welcome to the University of Oxford Botanic Garden. We are often asked how a botanic garden differs from other types of gardens.
11.2milesCurioxity Hands On Science Exhibition
40 George Street, Oxford, OX12AQ
Curioxity Hands On Science Exhibition - Amusement Park in Oxford, . Contact venue on telephone number 01865247004 for opening times, entrance costs, and attractions/rides available at this park.
12.2milesRycote Chapel
, Rycote, OX92PE
Owned by Mr and Mrs Bernard Taylor and managed by the Rycote Buildings Charitable Foundation, this 15th-century chapel has original furniture, including exquisitely carved and painted woodwork..
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12.8milesNorth Leigh Roman Villa
2m North of North Leigh, OX86QB
North Leigh Roman Villa can be found in East End, nearby to North Leigh. The Villa, which is cared for by English Heritage, is reached via a long track 600 metres or so from the main road.
14.3milesSulgrave Manor
Sulgrave Manor, OX172SD
A gentle stroll through three centuries of English history in the company of a friendly and informative guide. Sulgrave Manor is a small manor-house, built by a Lancashireman born at Warton about 1500.
15milesHarcourt Arboretum
Nuneham Courtenay, Oxford, OX449PX
Six miles south of Oxford on the A4074 is the Harcourt Arboretum. This is an integral part of the plant collection of the Botanic Garden.
16.1milesCogges Manor Farm Museum
Church Lane, Cogges, Witney, OX283LA
Cogges is a unique, working museum depicting Oxfordshire rural life in Victorian times set in an historic manor house and Cotswold stone farm buildings.Visitors take a step back in time when they enter the beautiful farmstead with its original Cotswold buildings and meet traditional breeds of farm animals including cows, sheep, pigs and chickens.
17.4milesClara Dryden Trophy Art Exhibition
Near Daventry, NN113SD
Local art groups compete to produce artworks to the theme of Canons Ashby House and its grounds. Work will be for sale.
18.3milesPendon Museum
Long Wittenham, OX144QD
At Pendon we aim 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. Realistically modelled cottages, farms, fields and lanes recall the peaceful country ways of that period.
18.8milesAscott House
Ascott House, Ascot, LU70PS
'A palace like cottage, the most luxurious and lovely thing I ever saw'. This was how Gladstone's daughter, Mary, described Ascott after a visit in the 1880s.
19.4milesDrayton Park
Drayton Park, Steventon Road, Drayton, Abingdon, OX144LA
Drayton Park - golf course in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. Contact the golf course on telephone number 01235 528989 for course availability, course rules, member information, golf academy (if available) and green fees at Drayton Park golf course/club.
19.4milesUpton House
Upton House, OX156HT
Late 17th-century house with significant art collections and superb terraced gardens. The house, built in 1695 of mellow local stone, was purchased and remodelled 192729 by Walter Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted, Chairman of Shell 192146 and son of the founder of that company.
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