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Woodstock is a market town and civil parish, 8 miles (13 km) north-west of Oxford in West Oxfordshire in the county of Oxfordshire, England. The 2011 Census recorded a parish population of 3,100. [2] Blenheim Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is next to Woodstock, in the parish of Blenheim.
Located just eight miles north of Oxford, Woodstock is ideally situated for visiting the great academic city, but also for visiting many other sites of interest, including Rousham House and Gardens, the ethereal abandoned village of Hampton Gay, and even a Roman Villa. Most of all, Woodstock is an ideal starting point for exploring the Cotswolds.
Right on the eastern edge of the Cotswolds, just eight miles north west of Oxford, lies the wonderful town of Woodstock. Sadly for them, most visitors to Woodstock never actually see the historic town centre, tucked away off the busy main road, as they’re heading to Woodstock’s grand and glorious neighbour, Blenheim Palace.
Woodstock is an attractive small town 8 mi north of Oxford, England. It is the nearest town to the popular stately home Blenheim Palace, Winston Churchill's birthplace, and is therefore popular with travellers looking for food and accommodation. Map. Directions. Satellite. Photo Map. woodstock-tc.gov.uk. Wikivoyage. Wikipedia.
- Explore Blenheim Palace UNESCO World Heritage Site. By far one of the best things to do in Woodstock has to be a visit to the world famous Blenheim Palace!
- Head out on a Blenheim Palace Walk. Did you know that the grounds around Blenheim Palace are free to access and have many permissive pathways on the estate?
- Visit the Harry Potter Tree! There are plenty of trees on the Blenheim estate but none so famous as the Harry Potter Tree! It’s one of the most iconic trees that live on the estate as it has a huge gaping hole on the front and it sits besides the Blenheim Lake!
- Admire the honeycombed Woodstock houses. Woodstock is on the fringes of the Cotswolds and so it’s just like any other quintessential town there, absolutely gorgeous!
Woodstock is located in the county of Oxfordshire, South East England, three miles north-west of the town of Kidlington, eight miles north-west of the major city of Oxford, and 57 miles north-west of London.
Woodstock, home to the celebrated Blenheim Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is situated in the beautiful Glyme Valley on land that would once have been part of Wychwood Forest. The land was called a Royal Forest in the Domesday Book, at which time it would have stretched all the way from the Cotswolds to London.
