Few regions can boast Oxfordshire's variety, beauty, heritage and luxury. Discover
towns and
villages surrounded by the greenest of Oxfordshire countryside. Here you can enjoy extra long
walks and play on some of the finest
golf courses.
- Stay in a picturesque farm house, a country mansion, or an ancient coaching inn. There's somewhere to suit all budgets.
- Head west to the Oxfordshire Cotswolds with scattered grey stone villages, nestling in secluded valleys. Blenheim Palace and Cotswold Wildlife Park are among the treats in store.
- Head east: the wooded Chiltern Hills, once a focus of industrial activity, now shelter quiet country pubs and flint houses, dating back hundreds of years.
- Head north: the Ironstone Hills' gently undulating landscape is ideal for walking, cycling and golf- followed by a relaxing spa treatment. Thatched villages such as Great Tew and great houses like Broughton Castle and Chastleton House near Adelstrop transport you to another era.
- Head south where the River Thames dominates, and towns such as Abingdon, Wallingford, and Henley grew up along its banks. Visit Didcot Railway Centre, with Britain's only 7ft gauge, and the replica GWR locomotive, Fire Fly.
- Prehistory is all around - the Dykes at Dorchester, the stone circle at Great Rollright, the Ridgeway, Dragon Hill, Wayland's Smithy and the mysterious White Horse - or wyvern. Oxfordshire's ancient past lives in its present.