Wychwood, Cotswold Water Park

Name: Wychwood
Address: Cotswold Water Park, United Kingdom

#12 among attractions in Cotswold Water Park

Nature, Natural attraction, Forest

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Wychwood or Wychwood Forest is a 501.7-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Witney in Oxfordshire. It is also a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade 1, and an area of 263.4 hectares is a national nature reserve The site contains a long barrow dating to the Neolithic period, which is a scheduled monument. ()

Coordinates: 51°51'2"N, 1°30'41"W

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Wychwood – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Blenheim Farm, Charlbury Museum, Leafield Castle, Cornbury Park.

2.3 miNE
Park
Blenheim Farm, Charlbury
59 min walk • Blenheim Farm is a 1-hectare nature reserve near Charlbury in Oxfordshire. It is owned and managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust. This is a meadow surrounded by ancient hedges and woodland.
2 miNE
History museum, Museum
Charlbury Museum, Charlbury
51 min walk • Charlbury Museum is a local museum in the town of Charlbury, Oxfordshire, England. The museum and collections are organized and run by the Charlbury Society, which was founded in 1949.
1.7 miSW
Forts and castles
Leafield Castle, Shipton-under-Wychwood
43 min walk • Leafield Castle is a motte castle in the village of Leafield in the north west region of Oxfordshire. All that is left of the castle are the earthworks and the earth mound that formed the centre of the castle.
1.1 miNE
Park, Vernacular architecture
Cornbury Park, Cotswold Water Park
28 min walk • Cornbury Park is an estate near Charlbury, Oxfordshire. It comprises about 5000 acres, mostly farmland and woods, including a remnant of the Wychwood Forest, and was the original venue for the Cornbury Music Festival and later the Wilderness Festival.
6.1 miNE
Forts and castles
Glympton Park
156 min walk • Glympton Park is a former deer park at Glympton, 3.5 miles north of Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. It includes Glympton House and has a 2,000 acres estate including the village of Glympton, its Norman parish church of St.
3.6 miS
Vernacular architecture, Ruins
Minster Lovell Hall, Cotswold Water Park
93 min walk • Minster Lovell Hall is a ruin in Minster Lovell, an English village in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds. The ruins are situated by the River Windrush.
3.8 miE
Historical place, Vernacular architecture
North Leigh Roman Villa, Witney
97 min walk • North Leigh Roman Villa was a Roman courtyard villa in the Evenlode Valley about 0.5 miles north of the hamlet of East End in North Leigh civil parish in Oxfordshire. It is a scheduled monument in the care of English Heritage and is open to the public.
3.9 miSE
Church, Romanesque architecture
St Mary's Church, North Leigh
100 min walk • The Parish Church of Saint Mary, North Leigh is the Church of England parish church of North Leigh, a village about 3 miles northeast of Witney in Oxfordshire.
3.5 miNW
Archaeological site
Lyneham Longbarrow, Cotswold Water Park
90 min walk • Lyneham Longbarrow is a long barrow near Lyneham, Oxfordshire. It is beside the A361 road, between Shipton-under-Wychwood and Chipping Norton. Just nine metres from the barrow mound stands a 1.8 metre tall standing stone.
2.5 miNW
Forts and castles
Ascot d'Oilly Castle, Cotswold Water Park
63 min walk • Ascot d'Oilly Castle is situated north of the village of Ascott-under-Wychwood in the north west region of Oxfordshire. It is a scheduled ancient monument. A fragment of the castle remains and is a Grade II listed building.
3.6 miS
Monastery
Minster Lovell Priory, Cotswold Water Park
92 min walk • Minster Lovell Priory was a priory in Minster Lovell, Oxfordshire, England. Its current site is lost, though it is thought to have been west of St Kenelm's parish church and Minster Lovell Hall.