Places to explore in OxfordshireEngland · South East England

Britain's oldest chalk hill figure, a 110-metre stylised horse cut into the downs above the Vale of White Horse.

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

Raymond Blanc's manor-house destination set in Oxfordshire gardens, among the very top-rated dining rooms in rural Britain.

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

A perforated sarsen boulder in a Kingston Lisle garden that can be sounded like a horn, tied to legends of King Alfred.

Twin beech-crowned chalk hills above the Thames, Round Hill and the Iron Age hillfort of Castle Hill, with wide views.

Honey-coloured limestone villages scattered across rolling sheep country, and paths enough to link them all up

2,041 km²

Rolling chalk downland above the Vale of the White Horse, threaded by one of Britain's oldest roads

1,731 km²

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

Beech woods and chalk downland within easy reach of London, laced with old ridge paths and grazing red kites

838 km²

Large Oxfordshire farm centre with an award-winning butchery, pick-your-own and cafe.

Ancient complex of a stone circle, a solitary monolith and a burial chamber on the Cotswold ridge at the county edge.