Oxfordshire - Places of Interest

Places of Interest

Main article: List of museums in Oxfordshire See also: List of attractions in Oxford
Key
Abbey/Priory/Cathedral
Accessible open space
Amusement/Theme Park
Castle
Country Park
English Heritage
Forestry Commission
Heritage railway
Historic House

Museum (free/not free)
National Trust
Theatre
Zoo
  • Abingdon County Hall Museum – housed in a 17th century County Hall building
  • Ashdown House – 17th century country house in the Lambourn Downs
  • Ashmolean Museum - Oxford University's museum of art and archaeology
  • Banbury Museum, Banbury
  • Bicester Village
  • Blenheim Palace and garden – UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Broughton Castle – 14th century fortified manor house
  • Buscot Park, Buscot – 18th century country house and landscape garden
  • Champs Chapel Museum of East Hendred – village museum in a 15th century Carthusian chapel
  • Charlbury Museum
  • Chastleton House – 17th century country house (limited access)
  • Chiltern Hills – Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
  • Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway – operated with steam and diesel locomotives
  • Chipping Norton Museum
  • Cholsey and Wallingford Railway
  • Cogges Manor Farm Museum, Witney – a living museum of country life
  • Combe Mill Museum, Long Hanborough – working museum of stationary steam engines
  • Cotswold Wildlife Park and garden, Bradwell Grove, Holwell
  • Cotswolds – Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
  • Didcot Railway Centre – museum of the Great Western Railway
  • Dorchester Abbey, Dorchester-on-Thames – 12th century church of former Augustinian abbey
  • Great Coxwell Barn – 14th century Tithe barn
  • Greys Court, Rotherfield Greys – 16th century country house
  • Hampton Gay Manor – ruins of 16th century manor house (no website)
  • Harcourt Arboretum, Nuneham Courtenay
  • Heythrop Hall – 17th century country house: now a hotel, golf & country club
  • Hook Norton Brewery – working Victorian "tower" brewery that offers guided tours
  • Kelmscott Manor – Home of William Morris
  • Mapledurham Estate – 16th century country house and 15th century watermill
  • Milton Manor House – 18th century country house
  • Minster Lovell Hall – dovecote and ruins of 15th century manor house
  • Museum of Bygones, Claydon – private museum including stationary steam engines
  • North Wessex Downs – Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
  • Oxford
  • Oxford Bus Museum and Morris Motors Museum, Long Hanborough
  • Oxford Canal – 18th century "narrow" canal
  • The Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock
  • The Ridgeway
  • River and Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames
  • River Thames
  • Rollright Stones – megalithic stone circle and Whispering Knights burial chamber, near Little Rollright
  • Rousham House – 17th century country house and landscape garden
  • Rycote chapel – 15th century chapel with original furnishings
  • St Katharine's church, Chiselhampton – 18th century parish church with original furnishings (no website, limited access)
  • St Mary's church, Iffley – 12th century Norman parish church
  • Shotover Country Park, Headington
  • Spiceball Country Park, Banbury
  • Stanton Harcourt manor house (limited access), with garden and 15th century chapel and Pope's Tower (no website)
  • Stonor House – country house and 14th century chapel of the recusant Stonor family
  • Swalcliffe Tithe Barn – 15th century
  • Thame Museum
  • Tolsey Museum, Burford (no website)
  • Uffington White Horse, Uffington Castle and Wayland's Smithy burial chamber in the White Horse Hills
  • Wallingford Museum
  • Wheatley Windmill – 18th century tower mill

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