Places to explore near Oxford StationOxford

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

0.2 km W · spans 7 counties

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

0.2 km W · spans 7 counties

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

0.5 km E

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

0.8 km E

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

1.5 km SE

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

1.6 km E

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

0.3 km NE · spans 4 counties

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

1.4 km E

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

1.6 km SW

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

1.8 km E

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

3.6 km NW

A country park in Oxfordshire.

5.2 km E

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

7.3 km NE · Oxfordshire & Gloucestershire