Knollbury, Chipping Norton

#10 among attractions in Chipping Norton

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Knollbury is a scheduled neolithic enclosure to the north west of Chadlington in Oxfordshire. Believed to be defensive in nature the enclosure is rectangular formed by a 2-to-4-metre-high and 10-metre-wide earth banks. The two gaps in the earth banks at the eastern corners are believed to be of a later date. ()

Coordinates: 51°54'17"N, 1°32'29"W

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Chipping Norton United Kingdom

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

Nearby attractions include: Blenheim Farm, Chipping Norton Museum, Heythrop Zoological Gardens, Holy Trinity Church.

3.7 miSE
Park
Blenheim Farm, Charlbury
95 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.
2.5 miN
Museum
Chipping Norton Museum, Chipping Norton
64 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.
4.5 miNE
Zoo
Heythrop Zoological Gardens, Chipping Norton
114 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.
2.7 miN
Church, Romanesque architecture
Holy Trinity Church, Chipping Norton
69 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.
2.7 miN
Concerts and shows, Theater
The Theatre, Chipping Norton
68 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.
3.3 miSE
History museum, Museum
Charlbury Museum, Charlbury
86 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.
4 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Forest
Wychwood, Cotswold Water Park
101 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.
4.7 miS
Forts and castles
Leafield Castle, Shipton-under-Wychwood
121 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.
3.7 miSE
Park, Vernacular architecture
Cornbury Park, Cotswold Water Park
94 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 miNW
Park, Neoclassical architecture, Gothic Revival architecture
Daylesford House, Chipping Norton
113 min walk • Daylesford House is a Georgian country house near Daylesford, Gloucestershire, on the north bank of the River Evenlode near the border with Oxfordshire. It is about 5 miles east of Stow-on-the-Wold and 5 miles west of Chipping Norton.
1.7 miSW
Archaeological site
Lyneham Longbarrow, Cotswold Water Park
44 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.