Houses & gardens in OxfordshireOxfordshire, England

Oxford's grandest college, with Tom Tower and its own cathedral.

Baroque palace, Churchill's birthplace, Capability Brown park.

A little-altered Jacobean manor where the modern rules of croquet were codified.

An Italianate water garden designed by Harold Peto in 1904, stepping through rills.

William Morris's Tudor riverside retreat.

Held by one Catholic family for 800 years, where Edmund Campion secretly printed in 1581.

Britain's oldest botanic garden, a walled physic garden of 1621 by the Cherwell.

The university's 130-acre arboretum at Nuneham Courtenay, with mature conifers, a bluebell wood and a wildflower meadow.

The 1930s home of Morris Motors founder Lord Nuffield, with an Arts and Crafts garden.

Seventy-acre tree and shrub collection with walled garden and lakes near the Northamptonshire border, open on limited days.

Twenty acres of ornamental gardens on a former ladies' horticultural college, centred on a 200-foot herbaceous border.

A tall Dutch-style lodge of 1663, built for the exiled Queen of Bohemia.

College gardens inside Oxford's medieval city wall, with a raised viewing mound.

A 1770s Capability Brown landscape above the Thames, framing the Oxford spires.

Arne Jacobsen's modernist landscape of the 1960s, composed as carefully as the college itself.

A 26-acre Oxford college garden with a lake and Henry Moore sculptures.

A Jacobean house on a medieval priory site, its grounds shaped by Capability Brown.

A National Trust place in Oxfordshire.