Top 10 PRETTIEST Towns in OXFORDSHIRE

What are the 10 prettiest towns in the county of Oxfordshire? To determine this, I visited them all. Here’s what I found out.

As a disclaimer, this list is neither a social commentary, nor a guide on which are the nicest towns to live, but purely a judgement on the aesthetics of each respective town centre.

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In the heart of Southern England is the county of Oxfordshire and aside from its famous University City it is home to many stunning Market towns but what are its prettiest to establish this I visited the mall personally and my conclusions are presented to you in this

Top 10 list cities are also included for consideration in this which may come into play however Villages are not as there are just too many of them as a claimer this is neither a social commentary nor a guide on where it’s nicest to live it is simply a beauty

Contest judged by yours truly so let’s get straight to it number 10 setting The Benchmark for a spot on this list amid some stiff competition is a town named after a river and one of multiple towns on this list to be used as a filming location for the TV series Midsummer murders

Tame with its distinctive boat-shaped High Street tame features various different architectural styles from the medieval Cent Mary’s Church two chuda buildings some with thatch roofs and the Victorian Town Hall from 1887 the town’s name comes not from the river temps but its tributary the river

Tame number nine now to a town in the even load Valley on the edge of the cops with Nara hair out of place charlbury a market town since the 13th century charlbury developed a glove making industry in the 19th century but remained particularly small at just over

One square kilometer in area this of course adds to its charm as a vision in cotswald stone of particular note is the medieval grade one listed St Mary’s Church perhaps the most surprising aspect of chury is that unlike most entries on this list it actually has a

Railway station this serves as a handy counter example to the beaching apologists who argue that a train station in itself leads to urban sprawl number eight continuing along the edge of the cotswalds is our next entry a town known for its very celebrity residents as well as a former recording studio chipping

Norton the architecture of chipping Norton hark back to its historic Prosperity from the wall trade from which various buildings were directly funded including the medieval Church of St Mary and the adjacent 17th Century Arms houses but the Industrial Revolution left it and other cotwell towns unable to compete with the steam powered

Textile mills of the North and the Midlands the upshot being that they were able to retain their small town charm however in 1971 chipping Norton Rec recording studios opened giving the town a shot in the arm as artists including status quo Duran Duran and radio head

Recorded here oh and Keith Moon own the crown and cushion Hotel on the High Street Number Seven now to the first of multiple entries from towns that used to be in barkshire before the county borders were rejigged in 1974 this town is home to the last Folly

Tower to have been built in England England farington with a market boasting 800 years of History farington retains a suitable amount of rustic charm architectural highlights include the Old Town Hall built in the aftermath of the Civil War and All Saints Church whose churchyard is said to be haunted by The

Headless ghost of a naval officer the officer in question was allegedly decapitated by a cannonball though records suggest he died of natural causes you can’t beat a good ghost story though number six and now to another former barkshire town in fact this was once barsha’s County town and yet today

Finds itself in Oxfordshire one of a handf towns claiming to be the oldest in England Abingdon on TS although the true title of oldest town in England will always be up for debate it is safe to say there’s no shortage of history in Abington in the 7th Century an Abbey was founded here and a settlement grew around it although the Abbey is long gone one remnant of it

Remains well kind of trendle’s folly may look like ancient ruins but was actually built in the 19th century by what can only be described as Victorian Trolls but aside from the joke architecture Abington boasts some serious masterpieces including St Nicholas church from the 12th century the Riverside St Helen’s Church which is

Equally striking When approaching from East St Helen Street and the 17th century County Hall designed by Christopher kempster who was Christopher Ren’s Master Mason during the construction of St Paul’s Cathedral in London number five just over 10 miles Downstream from Abington is its tside neighbor and yet another former

Barkshire town waringford if history is your thing you’ll feel right at home at wallenford where you can explore the castle ruins free of charge in terms of Aesthetics the town is situated favorably along the river temps with the 18th century St Peter’s Church commanding the skyline even if the church itself is now

Redundant then there’s the grade one listed Town Hall from the 17th century where St Mary LaMore Church Nestle just behind it all of this provides the inspiration behind coron the fictional County Town of Midsummer in the TV series Midsummer murders which in reality is Wallingford and speaking of murder the

Fictional kind that is then it should also be noted that Wallingford was the earthw residence of the queen of crime herself Agatha Christie in fact Dame Agatha lived here for over 40 years number four and now back to the edge of the cots walls and to town that

Sounds more like a 60s music festival Woodstock this Woodstock has its Origins from around the 12th century when Henry II used the area as a base for hunting it would later be the site for the construction of Blenheim Palace in the early 18th century this is said to be

The only non-royal non-episcopal country house in England to hold the title of Palace and has been home to the Dukes of marbar ever since but but for those of us who live like common people and do whatever common people do a walk around the small town center with its Stone buildings in

Some cases cladded with a healthy dose of Ivy is quite the Feast for the eyes number three and back once again to the river temps this time for a right rural Riata Town Henley on temps now there are Riverside towns and then there’s henon temps this is after

All the town that hosted the very first Oxford versus Cambridge boat race back in 1829 10 years later a one day rowing event was held here which snowballed into the annual Six-Day Summer Event of the present day the Henley Royal rata but if rowing is not your thing you can

Equally enjoy a Riverside stroll amidst the various webbed footed residents architectural highlights include St Mary’s Church going back to the 13th century the town hall from the turn of the 20th century and of course Henley Bridge which opened all the way back in 1786 number two and now we leave the

Temps and head back to the edge of the cotwolds it’s as if a pattern’s emerging our runnerup goes to a town that appears Frozen in time at least if you ignore all the cars the town of berford with a geographical area of less than 1 square km

Berford is one of the smallest towns in the country its High Street is at a somewhat steep gradient with the River Wind Rush at the bottom the Church of St John the Baptist dates from the 12th century with a 15th century Spire the railway era completely missed out

Berford making it a little tricky to get to on public transport although as a consequence it could quite plausibly be used as a filming location for an 18th century period drama but as Adil as bord is there’s just one settlement in the county that tops it which brings us

To number one now I mentioned that cities are included for consideration on this list and there is of course one city in Oxfordshire one that needs no introduction Oxford to be clear this was never a shoe in for the top spot in fact I gave serious consideration to denying Oxford

The number one entry just to be an edgy contrarian but that would be a betrayal of the world’s second oldest university in operations day behind bologna a university that was after all the armor of Christopher Ren who contributed his architecture to the city including the sheldonian theater and the Magnificent Tom

Tower other iconic buildings include the 18th century Radcliffe camera the adjacent bodian library and of course all the the college buildings themselves including the particularly striking mlin college with its Tower dating from the early Tuda era against the backdrop of the river cherwell thus our top spot goes to

Oxford aka the city of dreaming Spar and those are my picks for top 10 prettiest towns and cities in Oxfordshire do you agree or disagree by all means let me know your thoughts in the comments the plan for this series is again around the entire country so feel

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