Day 3 - Oxford and eastern Cotswolds tour
55 miles from Oxford around some pretty villages off the main tourist drag
- Oxford
- The central area in Oxford is fairly compact, so you can stroll round the
square made by walking along Broad Street to the Bodlean, right past the Radcliffe
Camera, right onto the High, and right along the Turl to Broad Street
- N on A44 to Woodstock - 8 miles
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- Woodstock & Blenheim
- The gates of Blenheim Palace are on the edge of the village of Blenheim.
Churchill's grave is at Bladon church
- N on A44 - 12 miles
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- Chipping Norton
- Chipping Norton. Cotswolds market town, with Bliss Mill an unusual Victorian
woollen mill
- Continue on A44 for about 4 miles, Chastleton is about 1 mile off A44 -
5 miles
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- Chastleton
- Chastleton House. Fine National Trust Jacobean House - check entry requirements
with National Trust
- Minors roads from village to village - 15 miles
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- Cotswolds Villages
- Follow minor roads through Oddington, Bledington, Lynham, Shipton under
Wychwood, Leafield, Minster Lovell. A string of pretty Cotswolds villages
that are off the "tourist trail" and are more representative of
the area than the "honeypots"
- Back to Oxford on A40 - 15 miles
