Whitecross Green and Oriel Woods

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

2.1 km E

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

5.2 km E

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.

5.5 km E · Buckinghamshire

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

8.5 km S

Long thatch-and-timber village near Thame with a 15th-century courthouse and a high street of ironstone cottages once known for needle-making.

10.6 km SE · Buckinghamshire

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

11.2 km W · spans 4 counties