Places to explore near Oxford Parkway StationOxford Parkway

The non-tidal Thames — 45 locks of managed river between Cricklade's meadows and the tideway at Teddington.

2.3 km SW · spans 7 counties

The river from its Cotswold trickle to the Thames Barrier — the gentlest long walk in Britain.

2.7 km SW · spans 7 counties

Surviving 12th-century tower of St Martin's church at Oxford's central crossroads, climbable for rooftop city views.

5.9 km S

Norman castle and old county gaol, with a climbable Saxon tower.

5.9 km S

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

6.2 km S

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

6.6 km S

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

6.9 km NW

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

7.3 km NW · Oxfordshire

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

7.6 km NW

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

1 km W · spans 4 counties

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

3.2 km NE · Oxfordshire & Gloucestershire

Old stone inn beside a weir on the Thames at Wolvercote, with a riverside terrace below Godstow's abbey ruins.

3.2 km SW

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

5.7 km S

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

5.8 km S

Small stone conduit house of the early 1600s on the slopes above North Hinksey, built to pipe spring water into Oxford's Carfax Conduit.

7 km S

A country park in Oxfordshire.

8.1 km SE