Hook Norton ironstone quarries, Hook Norton

#5 among attractions in Hook Norton

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The Hook Norton ironstone quarries were ironstone quarries at Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, England, operating from the 1890s to the end of the First World War. Two sites were quarried and it was the only Hook Norton ironstone quarry business to be locally owned. ()

Coordinates: 52°0'12"N, 1°28'60"W

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Hook Norton United Kingdom

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Hook Norton ironstone quarries – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Rollright Stones, Broughton Castle, Hook Norton Brewery, Chipping Norton Museum.

4.1 miSW
History museum, Museum
Rollright Stones, Chipping Norton
106 min walk • The Rollright Stones are a complex of three Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic monuments near the village of Long Compton, on the borders of Oxfordshire and Warwickshire.
4.6 miNE
Museum, Forts and castles, History museum
Broughton Castle, Banbury
119 min walk • Broughton Castle is a medieval fortified manor house in the village of Broughton, which is about two miles south-west of Banbury in Oxfordshire, England, on the B4035 road. It is the home of the Fiennes family, Barons Saye and Sele.
0.6 miSW
Brewery, Nightlife
Hook Norton Brewery, Hook Norton
17 min walk • Hook Norton Brewery is a regional brewery in Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, England, several miles outside the Cotswold Hills.
5.1 miSW
Museum
Chipping Norton Museum, Chipping Norton
129 min walk • Chipping Norton Museum is an independent local museum located on the High Street in the town of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England. The museum is located on the first floor of the Chipping Norton Co-operative Society Hall, which dates from the 1880s.
4.2 miS
Zoo
Heythrop Zoological Gardens, Chipping Norton
107 min walk • Heythrop Zoological Gardens is a private zoo and animal training centre in Heythrop, near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. The zoo has the largest private collection of exotic animals in the United Kingdom. The site also houses Amazing Animals, an animal training company that provides exotic animals for the film industry.
4.8 miSW
Church, Romanesque architecture
Holy Trinity Church, Chipping Norton
122 min walk • Holy Trinity Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England. It is situated on the London road in the centre of the town. It was built in 1836 and is a Grade II listed building.
4.9 miSW
Concerts and shows, Theater
The Theatre, Chipping Norton
126 min walk • The Theatre Chipping Norton, sometimes The Theatre, Chipping Norton, is a theatre, cinema, gallery and music venue in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England. The main auditorium was originally a Salvation Army citadel, built in 1888.
4.7 miE
Church, Gothic architecture
St Mary's Church, Bloxham
121 min walk • The church of Our Lady of Bloxham, informally called St Mary's Bloxham, is the Church of England parish church in Bloxham, Oxfordshire. It is notable for its 14th-century tower and spire, which is the highest in Oxfordshire. It is unusually large for a parish church.
6 miNE
Monastery
Wroxton Abbey
155 min walk • Wroxton Abbey is a Jacobean house in Oxfordshire, with a 1727 garden partly converted to the serpentine style between 1731 and 1751. It is 2.5 miles west of Banbury, off the A422 road in Wroxton. It is now the English campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey.
5.5 miSW
Museum
Bliss Tweed Mill, Chipping Norton
142 min walk • Bliss Tweed Mill is a former mill for the manufacture of tweed. It is located on the edge of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. It became a Grade II* listed building in 1980.
6.2 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Crouch Hill, Banbury
157 min walk • Crouch Hill is a partly artificial hill one mile to the south-west of Banbury Church in Banbury, Oxfordshire, in the United Kingdom.