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Chorley, Lancashire, from Hurst Hill with Anglezark resevoir in foreground

Chorley

in the county of Lancashire

Recommended towns & villages near Oxford Canal

Addison's Walk in the grounds of Magdalen College, Oxford

Oxford

(0.4 miles, 0.7 km)

Oxford's fame is perhaps second only to Windsor, it is an acclaimed seat of learning with a University whose first college was founded in 1249, almost half a century after the first charter granted to the town by Henry II...

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St. Michael's Church, Cumnor

Cumnor

(3.3 miles, 5.3 km, direction W)

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The gated entrance to Marsh Baldon

Marsh Baldon

(4.7 miles, 7.6 km, direction SE)

Picturesque village in Oxfordshire..

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A Storm Brewing !! nr Beckley, Oxfordshire 1994

Beckley

(4.8 miles, 7.7 km, direction NE)

The village lies in spacious countryside within a short distance of the River Ray where there is boating and fishing...

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St. Laurence's Church, Appleton

Appleton

(5.1 miles, 8.3 km, direction SW)

Appleton is a village in Oxfordshire, some 4 miles northwest of the historic market town of Abingdon. It was once part of the county of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary change,.....

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Abingdon, Oxfordshire

Abingdon

(5.4 miles, 8.6 km, direction S)

Interesting town, developed around the gates of an abbey founded in 675...

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Stanton Harcourt

Stanton Harcourt

(5.8 miles, 9.3 km, direction W)

Oxfordshire village lying between the River Thames and the River Windrush...

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Amazing thatched buildings

Clifton Hampden

(6.5 miles, 10.5 km, direction S)

This is a popular Thames side village which was the choice of Jerome K. Jerome for a setting for one of the riotous scenes of his "Three Men in a Boat" and it is easy to see just.....

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St Katherine's Church

Chiselhampton

(6.5 miles, 10.5 km, direction SE)

Dreamy village where the River Tame is crossed by a 16th-century stone bridge...

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The Elizabethan Manor, Hampton Gay, Oxfordshire

Hampton Gay

(6.7 miles, 10.8 km, direction N)

Once a thriving village with a corn mill on the river Cherwell, a farm and over a dozen cottages, Hampton Gay is now much smaller with just a few cottages, a farm, the old church.....

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Oxford, the Ashmolean Museum

Ashmolean Museum

(0.6 miles, 0.9 km)

Built in 1845 as the university Galleries, this Museum became home to the Ashmolean collection in 1894. The museums present.....

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A picture of Botanic Gardens of Oxford

Botanic Gardens of Oxford

(0.6 miles, 0.9 km)

Situated on the banks of the River Cherwell is the peaceful settings of the beautiful Botanic Gardens of Oxford. The gardens are.....

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A picture of Pitt Rivers Museum

Pitt Rivers Museum

(0.8 miles, 1.3 km)

An impressive storehouse filled with the richest examples of human creativity and imagination. Masks peer down from the high.....

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A picture of University Museum of Natural History

University Museum of Natural History

(0.8 miles, 1.3 km)

Opened in 1860 as a home for the teaching of natural science in Oxford. The Museum, with its glass-roofed court, naturalistic.....

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Home of C.S. Lewis

The Kilns

(3.1 miles, 4.9 km, direction E)

C S Lewis' former home known today throughout the world as the Kilns was built in 1922. The area surrounding it was in fact a.....

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Distant views of Cowley, Oxfordshire.

Shotover Country Park

(3.5 miles, 5.7 km, direction E)

Shotover Country Park covers 117 hectares on the southern slopes of Shotover Hill, and is very popular with walkers, joggers, dog.....

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Abingdon Museum (Old Berkshire County Hall), Abingdon, Oxfordshire.

Abingdon Museum

(5.3 miles, 8.6 km, direction S)

Abingdon museum is housed in the centre of this ancient town in the spectacular 17th century County Hall. It includes displays.....

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Abingdon Abbey - July 2009

Abingdon Abbey

(5.6 miles, 9.1 km, direction S)

Abingdon Abbey was founded in 675 and demolished following Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries. During the life of the.....

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View inside the inner courtyard at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock

Blenheim Palace

(7.7 miles, 12.5 km, direction NW)

Home of the 11th Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace has been awarded Historic Attraction of the Year 2002 and is birthplace of.....

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Glenn Mill

(7.9 miles, 12.7 km, direction SW)

A rural water-powered corn mill on a tributary of the River Ock. The present building of local limestone and the working parts.....

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