Otmoor

Moated 14th-century stone gatehouse, all that remains of a fortified manor at Boarstall, kept by the National Trust.

5 km E

Hilltop village pub with rooms and its own farm supplying the kitchen and butchery.

8.1 km E

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

8.3 km W · spans 4 counties

Hilltop village on a spur above the Vale of Aylesbury, ringed by common land with a working post mill and wide views over three counties.

8.4 km E · Buckinghamshire

Twenty acres of ornamental gardens on a former ladies' horticultural college, centred on a 200-foot herbaceous border.

9.3 km SE

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

9.4 km SW