Attractions in Banbury & Things to Do in Banbury
(and nearby)

Broughton Castle (3 Miles)*
The home of Lord and Lady Saye and Sele, and owned by the same family for over 600 years.
Brook Cottage Garden (5 Miles)*
The 4-acre garden has been formed by an architect and a plantswoman since 1964 on the west facing slope of a valley. Originally the site comprised a paved courtyard surrounded on three sides by the 17th century Hornton stone house and barn.
Upton House & Gardens (5 Miles)*
Upton House is a late seventeenth century house, built of the mellow local stone, which was remodelled by Walter Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearstead, after his purchase of the property in 1927.
Farnborough Hall (5 Miles)*
Farnborough Hall was acquired by the Holbech family in 1684, and the honey-coloured, Grade I listed, two-storey mansion was built shortly after that.
Bygones Museum (6 Miles)*
The museum houses a unique collection of antiques and memorabilia gathered together by the owners over a period of sixty years.
Sulgrave Manor (7 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.
Canons Ashby House (10 Miles)*
Canons Ashby has been the family home of the Drydens since Elizabethan times and that family atmosphere remains today.
Rousham House & Gardens (10 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.
Stowe Landscape Gardens (14 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.
Chastleton House (14 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.
Oxfordshire Museum (14 Miles)*
The Oxfordshire Museum is situated in the heart of the historic town of Woodstock.
Blenheim Palace (15 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.
Charlecote Park (15 Miles)*
A visit to Charlecote Park is a chance to follow the fortunes of the Lucy family who came to England during the time of William the Conqueror.
Oxford Bus Museum (16 Miles)*
The Museum has on display more than a century of Oxfordshire public transport and Morris Motors vehicles. There over 30 vehicles on display in the Bus Museum, most of which are in the ownership of the Museum.
Batsford Arboretum (17 Miles)*
The earliest verifiable recorded history of Batsford Park, of which the Batsford Arboretum forms the central part, dates back to the Freeman family who owned the estate in the early part of the 17th Century.
Cotswold Falconry Centre (17 Miles)*
Cotswold Falconry invites you to a spectacular demonstration with a large variety of birds of prey flying free. This gives a remarkable insight into the ancient art of falconry.
Hidcote Manor Garden (17 Miles)*
Hidcote Manor Garden is one of those gardens which can only be found in England! It was created by keen horticulturist, Major Lawrence Johnston, on a Cotswold property bought for him by his mother.
Royal Pump Rooms Leamington Spa (17 Miles)*
The Town's Art Gallery and Museum, Library and Tourist Information Centre are all in the restored Royal Pump Rooms building, alongside the existing Assembly Room and a Café.
Royal Shakespeare Company (17 Miles)*
One of the world's best-known theatre ensembles, the Royal Shakespeare Company performs the works of Shakespeare, other renaissance dramatists and contemporary writers all year round in its home in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Hall's Croft (17 Miles)*
Halls Croft was the home of Dr. John Hall and Shakespeare's eldest daughter Susanna, whom he married in 1607.
Bourton House Garden (17 Miles)*
The Cotswolds' best kept secret! An award-winning three acre garden surrounding a fine 18th century Manor House and Grade I listed 16th century Tithe Barn.
Nash's House and New Place (17 Miles)*
At the end of Chapel Street, you will find the beautiful old building from the sixteenth century, known as Nash's House. In the garden, you can see the foundations of New Place - Shakespeare's fine house.
Shakespeare's Birthplace (18 Miles)*
The "Man of the Millennium" William Shakespeare, was born in 1564 in the half-timbered house in Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Harvard House (18 Miles)*
Harvard House is not currently open to the public.Harvard House was the home of Katherine Rogers, mother of John Harvard, whose bequest made possible the foundation of Harvard University. Harvard House is the home of the Museum of British Pewter.
Warwick Castle (18 Miles)*
Imagine a totally electrifying, full day out at Britain's ultimate castle.
* Distances shown are in a direct line. Distances by road will be longer.



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