Bestmoor

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

0.2 km NE · spans 4 counties

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

4.1 km NE · Northamptonshire

Grand cruciform ironstone church with a tall spire and a celebrated frieze of carved figures and grotesques.

6 km N

A landmark 14th-century church whose slender crocketed spire, near 60 metres, is reckoned among the finest in England.

6.3 km N

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

9.5 km W · Oxfordshire

Moated medieval manor much used on film.

11.2 km NW