Aston Rowant

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Aston Rowant is one of four National Nature Reserves in Oxfordshire. It lies inside the Chilterns National Landscape. Saunderton Station is about 7.1 km away to the east. Nearby nature reserves include Wormsley Chalk Banks, Aston Rowant Woods and Shirburn Hill.

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

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

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