Destination Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire has a major tourism industry. The area is noted for the concentration of performance motorsport companies and facilities. Oxford University Press has headed a concentration of print and publishing firms; the university is also linked to the concentration of local biotechnology companies.
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» Destination Oxford
Oxford is a city and local government district in Oxfordshire, England. It is home to the University of Oxford, the oldest university in the English-speaking world. Oxford is known as the city of dreaming spires, a term coined by Matthew Arnold in reference to the harmonious architecture of the university buildings …
• Discover Oxfordshire at-a-glance
» Discover Abingdon
Abingdon (traditionally known as Abingdon-on-Thames) is a market town in Oxfordshire in Southern England. It is the seat of the Vale of White Horse district. Previously the county town of Berkshire, Abingdon is one of several places which claim to be Britain's oldest continuously occupied town …
» Ashdown House
Ashdown House (also known as Ashdown Park) is a 17th century country house in the civil parish of Ashbury in the English county of Oxfordshire. Ashdown House is associated with the "Winter Queen" Elizabeth of Bohemia, the sister of Charles I. Until 1974 the house was in the county of Berkshire …
» Discover Banbury
Banbury is a market town located on the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire, England. Banbury is part of, and the largest town in, the Cherwell district. Banbury is a significant commercial and retail centre for the surrounding area, which is predominantly rural. Banbury has a large shopping centre called Castle Quay…
» Blenheim Palace
Blenheim Palace is a large and monumental country house situated in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. It is the only non-Episcopal country house in England to hold the title of palace. The palace, one of England's largest houses, was built between 1705 and circa 1724 …
» Broughton Castle
Broughton Castle is a medieval manor house located in the village of Broughton which is about two miles south-west of Banbury, Oxfordshire on the B4050 road. It was built as a manor house by Sir John de Broughton in 1300 at a location where the confluence of three streams created a natural site for a moated manor …
» Buscot Park
Buscot Park is a country house near the town of Faringdon in Oxfordshire. It was built in an austere neoclassical style between 1780 and 1783 for Edward Loveden Townsend. It remained in the Loveden Townsend family until sold in 1859 to Robert Tertius Campbell, an Australian …
» Chiltern Hills
The Chiltern Hills orm a chalk escarpment in South East England. A large portion of the hills was designated officially as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in 1965. The chalk escarpment of the Chiltern Hills overlooks the Vale of Aylesbury, and approximately coincides with the southernmost extent of the ice sheet during the Anglian glacial maximum. The Chilterns are part of a system of chalk downlands formed between 65 and 95 million years ago …
» The Cotswolds
The Cotswolds are a range of hills in west-central England, sometimes called the Heart of England, an area 25 miles across and 90 miles long. The area has been designated as the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The Cotswolds lie mainly within the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire …
» Cotswold Wildlife Park
The Cotswold Wildlife Park and Gardens exhibits mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates from all around the world. The Park is set in 160 acres of landscaped parkland and gardens in Oxfordshire, England. The gardens and grounds are part of the Bradwell Grove estate. The manor house at Bradwell Grove dates from 1804 and many of the mature trees in the park were planted in the 19th century …
» Didcot Railway Centre
Didcot Railway Centre, located in the town of Didcot in the English county of Oxfordshire, is based around the site of an old engine shed which became redundant due to the nationalisation of the UK railways, as well as the gradual switch from steam to diesel power. The Great Western Society took over the site in 1967 …
» Dorchester Abbey
Dorchester Abbey is a Church of England parish church in Dorchester on Thames, about 8 miles southeast of Oxford. It was formerly a Norman abbey church and was built on the site of a Saxon cathedral. Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln founded Dorchester Abbey in 1140 for the Arrouaisian Order of Augustinian canons …
» Great Coxwell Barn
Great Coxwell Barn is a large 14th-century barn on the northern edge of the village of Great Coxwell, in Oxfordshire, England, though formerly in Berkshire. It is located in the Vale of White Horse near the market town of Faringdon. When it was built, it was as part of a monastic grange under the control of Beaulieu Abbey, in Hampshire. As such the barn would have been used to store most, if not all, of the crop of the grange …
» Heythrop Park
Heythrop Park is an early 18th century country house 1 mile southeast of Heythrop in Oxfordshire. It was designed by the architect Thomas Archer in the Baroque style for Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury. A fire in 1831 destroyed the original interior. From 1922 until 1999 Heythrop housed a college …
» Kelmscott Manor
Kelmscott Manor is a limestone house in the Cotswold village of Kelmscott, Oxfordshire, England. The handsome manor house is situated close to the river Thames, and it is frequently flooded. It dates from around 1570, with a late 17th-century wing, and was the country home of the writer, designer and socialist William Morris …
