A report on Bicester, Kidlington and Oxfordshire

Parish church of St Mary the Virgin. Its tall spire is a local landmark, nicknamed "Our Lady's Needle"

Brasenose Lane in Oxford city centre, a street onto which three colleges back.

Late 17th century house in Market Square

The site of former Kidlington railway station

The University of Oxford's Chemistry Research Laboratory.

Lady Anne Morton's almshouses, next to the parish church

The Abbey, Sutton Courtenay, a ‘textbook’ example of the English medieval manor house.

Bicester Town railway station in 2010. It has since been rebuilt, and was re-opened on 26 October 2015 as part of the Oxford - Bicester - London Marylebone line, and renamed Bicester Village railway station.

Bicester is a town and civil parish in the Cherwell district of northeastern Oxfordshire in Southern England.

- Bicester

Kidlington is a large village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, England, between the River Cherwell and the Oxford Canal, 5 mi north of Oxford and 7½ miles (12 km) south-west of Bicester.

- Kidlington

It has good road links to Oxford, Kidlington, Brackley, Buckingham, Aylesbury and Witney and railway stations on two different lines: and.

- Bicester

As well as the city of Oxford, other centres of population are Banbury, Bicester, Kidlington and Chipping Norton to the north of Oxford; Carterton and Witney to the west; Thame and Chinnor to the east; and Abingdon-on-Thames, Wantage, Didcot, Wallingford and Henley-on-Thames to the south.

- Oxfordshire

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Oxford

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City in England.

19th-century view of the High Street in Oxford.

Wellington Square, the name of which has become synonymous with the university's central administration

The Divinity School at the Bodleian Library

Oxford University Museum of Natural History

Galleries at the Museum of Natural History

Carfax Tower at Carfax, the junction of the High Street, Queen Street, Cornmarket and St Aldate's streets at what is considered by many to be the centre of the city

Night view of High Street with Christmas lights – one of Oxford's main streets

Floral display in Oxford city centre in 2001

The air traffic control tower at Oxford Airport

Oxford Bus Company hybrid bus on a park & ride service

Oxford Bus Company flywheel energy storage bus on a BrookesBus service

Oxford railway station, in the city centre

Oxford Parkway Station, on the outskirts near Kidlington

Somerville College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford

Keble College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford

All Souls' College looking east up the High Street from St Mary's Church

The Bridge of Sighs links sections of Hertford College: as seen from New College Lane with the Sheldonian Theatre in the background

University Church of St Mary the Virgin as seen from Radcliffe Square

Broad Street, showing the main entrances to Trinity and Balliol Colleges, and obliquely, the frontage of Exeter College from the Sheldonian Theatre

Merton College Chapel and Corpus Christi College as viewed from the Oriel Square entrance to Merton Street

High Street as viewed from St Mary's, looking east, with Magdalen College in the distant background

The Manor Ground off London Road in Headington.

Rowing at Summer Eights, an annual intercollegiate bumps race

Men's 1st VIII Summer Eights 2007 coxed by Acer Nethercott

Choir and organ of Christ Church Cathedral

It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire.

In addition to the larger airports in the region, Oxford is served by nearby Oxford Airport, in Kidlington.

Oxford is the junction for a short branch line to Bicester, a remnant of the former Varsity line to Cambridge.

River Cherwell

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Tributary of the River Thames in central England.

The River Cherwell near Edgcote, Northamptonshire

View upstream as the River Cherwell (flowing under the bridge) is joined by the Oxford Canal (coming from the right)

The punt rollers at "Mesopotamia" on the River Cherwell in Oxford

It rises near Hellidon, Northamptonshire and flows southwards for 40 mi to meet the Thames at Oxford in Oxfordshire.

The Oxford Canal enters the valley here, and roughly follows, on its route to Oxford until Thrupp near Kidlington.

By the weir the railway's older line continues down the valley to Oxford; east of it, a more direct route (opened in 1910 by the Great Western Railway) runs via Bicester and High Wycombe to London, originally connecting Paddington station, succeeded by London's newest main terminus, Marylebone.