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Oxford Bus Museum

Oxford Bus Museum

4.08km from North Leigh Roman Villa

The Oxford Bus Museum is a transport museum at Long Hanborough. This beautiful and historic museum tells the story of bus and coach travel around Oxfordshire over the last 130 years. Our exhibits include a historic preserved horse-drawn tram, motor buses, coaches and a wide selection of artefacts - including bus stops, ticket machines, timetables, posters and staff uniforms.

Blenheim Park

Blenheim Park

4.19km from North Leigh Roman Villa

A beautiful park of over 2000 acres, beautifully landscaped and well worth a visit in its own right. Gentle hillsides and well-kept lakes are complemented by large pastures with free-roaming sheep. The park was once an Anglo-Saxon chase and then a twelfth-century deer park. It now includes the Pleasure Gardens, Italian Garden and Rose Garden are well worth a visit as is the 'Capability' Brown landscaped Park.

Blenheim Palace

Blenheim Palace

4.48km from North Leigh Roman Villa

Blenheim Palace a World Heritage Site with over 300 years of History and home to the 12th Duke of Marlborough and his Family. Explore over 2000 acres of ‘Capability’ Brown Parkland and 90 acres of award-winning Formal Gardens. Ride the miniature train to The Pleasure Gardens, a dedicated family area that offers a giant hedge maze, butterfly house and adventure playground.

The Oxfordshire Museum

The Oxfordshire Museum

4.86km from North Leigh Roman Villa

Oxfordshire Museum is a large 18thcentury house in the heart of the historic town of Woodstock, which tells the story of Oxfordshire through its galleries and exhibitions. The museum features collections of local history, art, archaeology, the landscape and wildlife relating to the county of Oxfordshire, and to the town of Woodstock in particular.

Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum

Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum

5.06km from North Leigh Roman Villa

The Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum is a military museum in the town of Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, north of Oxford. The museum is on the edge of the Cotswolds. It offers its visitors engaging and immersive experiences through a changing exhibitions programme and permanent galleries including a recreated Great War trench, a mock up section of a Horsa Glider from D Day and Afghan Alley.

The Parish Church of Saint Martin Bladon

The Parish Church of Saint Martin Bladon

5.27km from North Leigh Roman Villa

St Martin's church stands on a low rise above the main road running through the village of Bladon. It is a majestic and beautiful church with a good choir, children’s ministry, study groups, warm fellowship and lively social events. It is best known for the graves of the Spencer-Churchill family, including Sir Winston Churchill, in its churchyard.

Cogges Manor Farm - at the heart of Witney

Cogges Manor Farm - at the heart of Witney

6.72km from North Leigh Roman Villa

Cogges Manor Farm is a beautiful Cotswold heritage farmstead with 1,000 years of history. It is now a heritage centre with Grade II* Listed 13th-century manor house and 17th-century farm buildings, and over 15 acres of naturally beautiful grounds to explore - walled garden, orchard, islands and moat, and river Windrush walk.

Cornbury Park Estate Office

Cornbury Park Estate Office

7.26km from North Leigh Roman Villa

Swinford Toll Bridge

Swinford Toll Bridge

8.2km from North Leigh Roman Villa

Swinford Toll Bridge is a privately owned toll bridge across the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England. It crosses the river just above Eynsham Lock, between the village of Eynsham on the west bank and the hamlet of Swinford on the east bank. It is a Grade II* listed building, and has been scheduled as an ancient monument.

Minster Lovell Hall and Dovecote

Minster Lovell Hall and Dovecote

8.29km from North Leigh Roman Villa

The picturesque ruins of Minster Lovell Hall, a 15th century Oxfordshire manor house, lie in a beautiful rural setting beside the River Windrush. They include a fine hall, tower and nearby dovecote. The Hall was a fairly typical if impressive manor house. The buildings surround three sides of a square; the fourth side towards the River Windrush was closed off by a wall. The great tower at the south-west corner seems to be a later addition to the house, as part of the adjoining west wing had to b

Farmoor Reservoir

Farmoor Reservoir

10.61km from North Leigh Roman Villa

Farmoor Reservoir is a man-made reservoir situated five miles west of Oxford. Split into two lakes, it covers an area of 400 acres in the heart of the Oxfordshire countryside. The reservoir is used for sports: fishing, dinghy sailing and windsurfing. Oxford Sailing Club and the Oxford Sail Training Trust are based there.

Rousham House & Gardens

Rousham House & Gardens

11.65km from North Leigh Roman Villa

Rousham House is a country house at Rousham in Oxfordshire, England. It is the purest example of an Augustan landscape garden, designed by William Kent on a framework made by Charles Bridgeman in the 1720s. One's first Roman encounter is with statues recalling the Imperial games: a lion mauls a horse and a gladiator dies with restrained agony. The house has been owned by the Dormer family since it was built.

Port Meadow, Oxford

Port Meadow, Oxford

12.03km from North Leigh Roman Villa

Port Meadow is one of the largest open spaces in the north of the city. With the River Thames flowing through the heart of the meadow the flood plains are home to many species of cattle, horses, and wildfowl. It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, a Scheduled Ancient Monument, and together with the nearby Yarnton and Pixey Mead a Special Area of Conservation under the European Habitats Directive.

Cutteslowe and Sunnymead Park

Cutteslowe and Sunnymead Park

12.59km from North Leigh Roman Villa

Cutteslowe and Sunnymead is the largest park in Oxford. It is located in the far north of the city. The park is proud to fly its Green Flag Award. This vast, leafy park is a beautiful place to come and escape the busy city, offering visitors gorgeous sprawling woodland and nature areas, a safe place to bring children to play, and recreational facilities that will be sure to keep anyone on their toes.

Kilkenny Lane Country Park

Kilkenny Lane Country Park

13.46km from North Leigh Roman Villa

A majestic park Set within 21 hectares, which is an ideal location for playing, walking, jogging, horse-riding or simply relaxing with a picnic. There are 2.5km of footpaths and bridleways as well as an adventure play area. It was one of the iconic attraction in this area and it attracts both locals and tourists.

Cherwell Boathouse

Cherwell Boathouse

13.94km from North Leigh Roman Villa

Cherwell Boathouse is Oxford's biggest punt station with over 80 handmade punts available for hire to explore the river Cherwell.It is located down a small lane off the junction between Chadlington Road and Bardwell Road, which itself is off the Banbury Road in North Oxford. restaurant and riverside café can be found on the same site. It is very popular with tourists and students in the summer.

New Bridge

New Bridge

14.04km from North Leigh Roman Villa

New Bridge is a 13th-century bridge carrying the Abingdon–Witney road over the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England, close to the Thames' confluence with the River Windrush. It is one of the two oldest surviving bridges on the Thames, part Grade I and part Grade II*-listed. The bridge is in a rural setting, with a public house at either end: the Maybush Inn on the south bank and the Rose Revived on the other.

Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology

Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology

14.48km from North Leigh Roman Villa

The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology in Oxford was established in 1683 and is the oldest museum in the United Kingdom. It houses the University of Oxford’s collections of art and antiquities. Its many riches include the world’s greatest collection of Raphael drawings; the most important collection of Egyptian pre-Dynastic sculpture and ceramics outside Cairo; the only great Minoan collection in Britain; outstanding Anglo-Saxon treasures; the most famous violin in the world, Stradivari’s M

Ashmolean Museum

Ashmolean Museum

14.5km from North Leigh Roman Villa

The Ashmolean is the University of Oxford's museum of art and archaeology, founded in 1683. Its collection representing most of the world’s great civilizations, with objects dating from 8000 BC to the present day. Among its treasures are the world’s greatest collection of Raphael drawings, the most important collection of Egyptian pre-Dynastic sculpture and ceramics outside Cairo and so more.

Oxford University Museum of Natural History

Oxford University Museum of Natural History

14.53km from North Leigh Roman Villa

The Oxford University Museum of Natural History is a museum displaying many of the University of Oxford's natural history specimens, located on Parks Road in Oxford, England. It holds an internationally significant collection of natural history specimens and archives in a stunning example of neo-Gothic architecture. It is home to a lively program of research, teaching and events focused on the sciences of the natural environment.

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North Leigh Roman Villa

North Leigh Roman Villa

A4095, North Leigh, Witney OX29 6QD, UK

The remains of North Leigh Roman Villa are set within a peaceful landscape on the banks of the river Evenlode in Oxfordshire. This ‘courtyard villa’ is considered to be one of the larger villas of Roman Britain. It was at its most extensive in the early 4th century, when it included three bath suites, 16 mosaic floors and 11 rooms with under-floor heating. Significant finds of pre-Roman Iron Age pottery and other features beneath the former south-west range show evidence of earlier occupation.