Charlbury Museum, Charlbury

#2 among attractions in Charlbury

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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. ()

Coordinates: 51°52'23"N, 1°28'57"W

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Market StreetCharlbury OX7 3PN United Kingdom

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+44 1608 810656

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Charlbury Museum – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Blenheim Farm, Heythrop Zoological Gardens, Woodstock Palace, The Theatre.

0.5 miE
Park
Blenheim Farm, Charlbury
12 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.
5 miN
Zoo
Heythrop Zoological Gardens, Chipping Norton
129 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.
5.4 miE
Palace
Woodstock Palace, Woodstock
138 min walk • Woodstock Palace was a royal residence in the English town of Woodstock, Oxfordshire. Henry I of England built a hunting lodge here and in 1129 he built 7 miles of walls to create the first enclosed park, where lions and leopards were kept.
5.5 miNW
Concerts and shows, Theater
The Theatre, Chipping Norton
141 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.
4.2 miSE
Church
St Laurence's Church, Cotswold Water Park
107 min walk • St Laurence's Church, Combe Longa is the Church of England parish church of Combe, Oxfordshire, England. The parish is part of the Benefice of Stonesfield with Combe Longa. The Wychwood Way long-distance footpath passes the church.
2 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Forest
Wychwood, Cotswold Water Park
51 min walk • 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.
3.6 miSW
Forts and castles
Leafield Castle, Shipton-under-Wychwood
92 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.
0.9 miSW
Park, Vernacular architecture
Cornbury Park, Cotswold Water Park
25 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.
4.4 miE
Forts and castles
Glympton Park
112 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.
4.6 miSE
Museum, Georgian architecture, Specialty museum
Combe Mill, Cotswold Water Park
118 min walk • Combe Mill is a historic sawmill adjacent to the River Evenlode and close to Combe railway station, between the villages of Combe and Long Hanborough in Oxfordshire, England.
3.5 miSE
Historical place, Vernacular architecture
North Leigh Roman Villa, Witney
90 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.