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Attractions near Gawcott
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Claydon House
(4 Miles)*
Claydon is an extraordinary house with remarkable 18th century, rococo and chinoiserie decoration. Features include the unique Chinese room and parquetry Grand Stairs. |
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Stowe Landscape Gardens
(4 Miles)*
One of the first and finest Georgian landscape gardens in Britain, Stowe has over 30 arches and temples mirrored in the waters of lakes or silhouetted against the sky. The garden and park were created by the Temple family during a two hundred year period. |
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Buckinghamshire Railway Centre
(7 Miles)*
The Buckinghamshire Railway Centre is a working Steam Museum, with one of the largest collections of locomotives, vehicles and railway memorabilia in the UK. |
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Waddesdon Manor
(9 Miles)*
Waddesdon manor was built between 1874 and 1889 in the style of a 16th-century French chateau for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild to entertain his guests and display his vast collection of art treasures. |
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Sulgrave Manor
(12 Miles)*
Sulgrave Manor is a superb example of a modest manor and garden of the time of Shakespeare, and was home to the ancestors of George Washington. |
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National Waterways Museum
(12 Miles)*
Housed in a restored cornmill in the picturesque village of Stoke Bruerne, the museum collection vividly portrays the heritage of 200 years of inland waterways. |
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Ascott
(13 Miles)*
Originally a half-timbered Jacobean farmhouse, Ascott was bought in 1876 by the de Rothschild family and considerably transformed and enlarged. |
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Rousham House & Gardens
(13 Miles)*
Rousham's landscape garden should be a place of pilgrimage for students of the work of William Kent (1685-1748). Rousham represents the first phase of English landscape design. |
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Canons Ashby House
(14 Miles)*
Canons Ashby is a romantic, 16th century Elizabethan manor house which has survived unaltered since 1710. Home of the Dryden family since it was first built, the house sits amongst beautiful gardens |
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Oak Farm Rare Breeds Park
(14 Miles)*
Oak Farm Rare Breeds Park is now Closed to Visitors. |
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Leighton Buzzard Railway
(15 Miles)*
With its sharp curves, its steep gradients, its level crossings and its unique roadside running, the Leighton Buzzard Railway takes you back to a more relaxed age of transport. |
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Bucks Goats Centre
(15 Miles)*
Over the years the Goat Centre has grown into a successful 'miniature zoo' and in fact now showcases animals from all over the world |
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Oxfordshire Museum
(17 Miles)*
Situated in the heart of the historic town of Woodstock, the award winning redevelopment of Fletcher's House provides a home for the new county museum. |
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Broughton Castle
(17 Miles)*
The home of Lord and Lady Saye and Sele, and owned by the same family for over 600 years. |
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Blenheim Palace
(17 Miles)*
Blenheim Palace was built for the National Hero John 1st Duke of Marlborough and his Duchess Sarah, given by Queen Anne as a gift in reward for his military services. |
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