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Attractions near Lechlade
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Kelmscott Manor
(2 Miles)*
Kelmscott Manor, a grade 1 listed Tudor farmhouse adjacent to the River Thames, was the summer home of William Morris from 1871 until his death in 1896. Morris loved the house as a work of true craftsmanship, totally unspoilt and unaltered. |
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Buscot Park
(3 Miles)*
Buscot Park was built by Edward Loveden Townsend in the 1770's. The house is a dignified example of late 18th-century taste for Italianate country houses. |
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Tom Browns School Museum
(9 Miles)*
The Museum is housed in the 380 year-old schoolroom which was featured in the novel "Tom Brown's School Days", first published in 1857. Its author, Thomas Hughes, was born in Uffington. |
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Witney & District Museum
(11 Miles)*
Opened in 1996, the Witney & District Museum is situated in the centre of the town, along the High Street. The large ground floor gallery houses a long term exhibition, showing the history of Witney and the surrounding area. |
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Cogges Manor Farm Museum
(11 Miles)*
Come to Cogges to discover life in rural Oxfordshire in Victorian times. You step back in time when you enter the beautiful farmstead with its original Cotswold buildings. |
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Lydiard House & Park
(11 Miles)*
Lydiard Park, the ancestral home of the Viscounts Bolingbroke, lies in beautiful parkland within easy reach of junction 16 on the M4. The Palladian house, church, formal parkland and surrounding pasture are the striking remains of a great estate. |
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Cotswold Motoring Museum & Toy Collection
(13 Miles)*
Multi-award winning Motor Museum, for all ages, ideal for families. |
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Birdland
(13 Miles)*
Birdland is set in woodland, river and gardens, this natural setting is inhabited by over 500 birds |
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Vale and Downland Museum and Visitor Centre
(14 Miles)*
The collections held at the Museum contain geological, natural history, archaeological, social history and contemporary objects that reflect the Vale of White Horse today. |
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Rodmarton Manor
(15 Miles)*
Rodmarton Manor, near Cirencester in Gloucestershire, was one of the last country houses to be built in the old traditional style when everything was done by hand with local stone, local timber and local craftsmen. |
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Oxford Bus Museum Trust Ltd
(16 Miles)*
The Museum has on display more than a century of Oxfordshire public transport and Morris Motors covering the 1920s to the 1980s. |
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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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Cotswold Farm Park
(17 Miles)*
The Cotswold Farm Park has over 50 breeding flocks and herds of our most fascinating British Breeds of sheep, cattle, pigs, goats, horses, poultry and waterfowl. |
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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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Chastleton House
(17 Miles)*
Chastleton House is one of England's finest and most complete Jacobean houses. It is filled with a mixture of rare and everyday objects, furniture and textiles collected since its completion in 1612. |
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