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Photo of Blenheim Palace, a Grade I registered house & garden near Woodstock, Oxfordshire, south east England.

Blenheim Palace© David P Howard / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Places to explore near Heyford StationLower Heyford

34 places within 10 km — the standouts first, nearest first within each group. 1 is a national icon.

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Worth the tripnational icons and local highlights within reach

Photo of Woodstock, a village in Oxfordshire, south east England.Highlight

Woodstock

Village

Handsome stone town at the gates of Blenheim Palace, with a Georgian high street and the county museum.

8.8 km SW · Oxfordshire

Photo of Aynho, a village in Northamptonshire, central England.Highlight

Aynho

Village

Hilltop 'apricot village' on the Oxfordshire edge, its honey-coloured houses trained with apricot trees below Aynhoe Park.

9 km N · Northamptonshire

Photo of the Cotswolds, a National Landscape in England.Highlight

Cotswolds

National Landscape near Cirencester

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

9.4 km SW

Photo of Great Tew, a village in Oxfordshire, south east England.Highlight

Great Tew

Village

Estate village of thatched ironstone cottages set among trees, with the Falkland Arms and a hillside church above.

9.4 km NW · Oxfordshire

Photo of Blenheim Palace, a Grade I registered house & garden near Woodstock, Oxfordshire, south east England.Iconic

Blenheim Palace

House & garden near Woodstock

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

9.8 km SW

Also nearbygood places nearby, nearest first

Photo of the Oxford Canal, a 78-mile canal running from Oxford to Coventry, England.

Oxford Canal

Canal

A contour-hugging early canal wandering from Coventry's doorstep through empty Midlands countryside to the Thames at Oxford.

0.1 km S · spans 4 counties

Rousham

House & garden near Deddington

William Kent's landscape garden of about 1738, come down almost unaltered.

0.5 km SW

Photo along the Oxfordshire Way, a 67-mile long-distance path running from Bourton-on-the-Water to Henley-on-Thames, England.

Oxfordshire Way

Long-distance path

Across Oxfordshire from Bourton-on-the-Water to Henley-on-Thames, joining the Cotswolds to the Chilterns by field path and village.

4.9 km S · Oxfordshire & Gloucestershire

Photo of The Killingworth Castle, a pub near Wootton, Oxfordshire, south east England.

The Killingworth Castle

Pub near Wootton

Seventeenth-century coaching inn at Wootton near Woodstock, a rosette-holding dining pub with its own microbrewery.

6.3 km SW

Photo of Deddington, a village in Oxfordshire, south east England.

Deddington

Village

Ironstone village round a market square in north Oxfordshire, with a large church and the earthworks of a Norman castle.

7.1 km N · Oxfordshire

Photo of St Michael's Church, Great Tew, a church in Oxfordshire, south east England.

St Michael's Church, Great Tew

Church near Great Tew

Fourteenth-century estate-village church with a series of medieval wall paintings uncovered in the late 1980s.

9.3 km NW

Photo of The Falkland Arms, a pub near Great Tew, Oxfordshire, south east England.

The Falkland Arms

Pub near Great Tew

Thatched creeper-clad inn in the estate village of Great Tew, with a flagstoned bar and clay pipes behind the counter.

9.8 km NW

Everything else within 10 km (22) — reserves, earthworks & places to check before travelling

Ordered by how far each place is worth travelling for, then by distance. Distances are straight-line to the nearest edge of each place — paths wind, of course.