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Beaconsfield Farm Roman villa

Access unclearno public right of way confirmed — check locally before setting out

Earthworks onlybanks, ditches and platforms — read the ground, not walls

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A Roman villa once stood here — today it survives as earthworks in Oxfordshire. The Albion Guide charts eight Roman villas in the county; this is one of them. Heyford Station is 8.1 km away to the east.

More at the National Heritage List entry

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Photo of Great Tew, a village in Oxfordshire, south east England.Highlight

Great Tew

Village

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

1.5 km NW · Oxfordshire

Photo of St Michael's Church, Great Tew, a church in Oxfordshire, south east England.

St Michael's Church, Great Tew

Church near Great Tew

Fourteenth-century estate-village church with a series of medieval wall paintings uncovered in the late 1980s.

1.6 km NW

Photo of St Peter ad Vincula, South Newington, a church in Oxfordshire, south east England.

St Peter ad Vincula, South Newington

Church near South Newington

Modest ironstone church preserving some of the finest 14th-century wall paintings in England, including the murder of Becket.

5.9 km N

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Cotswolds

National Landscape near Cirencester

Honey-coloured limestone villages scattered across rolling sheep country, and paths enough to link them all up

6.3 km SW

Photo of the Oxford Canal, a 78-mile canal running from Oxford to Coventry, England.

Oxford Canal

Canal

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

8.2 km E · spans 4 counties

Photo of The Bull (Charlbury), a gastropub in the Cotswolds, Oxfordshire, south east England.Highlight

The Bull (Charlbury)

Gastropub · With rooms near Charlbury

16th-century Cotswolds inn with rooms run by the London Pelican team, unfussy flavour-led cooking.

9.3 km SW