Archive for March, 2008
Oxford
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008Oxford is the oldest university city in England, situated some 50 miles (80 km) to the west of the capital London in its own county of Oxfordshire, and located on the rivers Thames (the section of the Thames in Oxford is known as “The Isis”) and Cherwell. Together with Cambridge (the second oldest university city […]
Woodstock
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008Woodstock is an attractive small town located 8 miles north of Oxford, England. It is the nearest settled locality adjacent to the popular stately home Blenheim Palace, and therefore popular with travellers looking for food and accommodation.
Blenheim Palace is a vast stately home open to the public. It is one of the most popular tourist […]
Bladon
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008Bladon is a small village located on the southern edge of Blenheim Park, the grounds surrounding the great stately home of Blenheim Palace, close to Woodstock in the English county of Oxfordshire. Blessed with a large number of quaint cottages, Bladon is best known as the burial place of the great British prime minister, Sir […]
Cholsey
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008Cholsey is a large village and civil parish, two miles from Wallingford, in the English county of Oxfordshire (previously in Berkshire). It has a population of over 4,000. The village green is known as The Forty. Winterbrook, at the north end of Cholsey parish adjoins Wallingford, and is the site of Winterbrook bridge, which crosses […]
Goring and Streatley
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008Goring and Streatley are twin villages in the Chilterns Area of outstanding natural beauty on the boundary of Berkshire and Oxfordshire, in England. Strictly speaking Goring is in Oxfordshire and Streatley in Berkshire, but as everything in both villages is in reasonably easy walking distance of everything else it seems better to deal with them […]
Henley-on-Thames
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008Henley on Thames is a town on the River Thames in South Oxfordshire, England. Henley is perhaps most famous as the home of the well-known international rowing tournament, the Henley Royal Regatta, held each year in late June and early July.
All locations in and around the town are walkable or drivable. During the Regatta, the […]
Didcot
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008Didcot is a town in South Oxfordshire, England.
North of the Goring Gap and south of Oxford, Oxfordshire opens out into a broad plain, overlooked from the south and east by the Berkshire Downs and the Chiltern Hills. In the midst of this plain, Didcot stands out because of its signature, a huge coal-fired electricity generating […]