Christmas Common
Christmas Common is a hamlet in Watlington civil parish, Oxfordshire about 7+1⁄2 miles south of Thame in Oxfordshire, close to the boundary with Buckinghamshire.Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Christmas Common, Oxfordshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fox And Hounds Inn Public House and Garsington Opera.
Garsington Opera
Theater building
Garsington Opera is an annual summer opera festival founded in 1989 by Leonard Ingrams. The Philharmonia Orchestra and The English Concert are its two resident orchestras. Garsington Opera is situated 1½ miles northeast of Christmas Common.
Shirburn Castle
Castle
Photo: Colin Bates, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Shirburn Castle is a Grade I listed, moated castle located at the village of Shirburn, near Watlington, Oxfordshire. Originally constructed in the fourteenth century, it was renovated and remodelled in the Georgian era by Thomas Parker, the first Earl of Macclesfield who made it his family seat, and altered further in the early nineteenth century. Shirburn Castle is situated 2 miles northwest of Christmas Common.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Northend and Watlington.
Northend
Hamlet
Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Northend is a village that straddles the border of the two English counties of Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. The eastern half is in the civil parish of Turville in Buckinghamshire, while the western half is across the border into Oxfordshire, in the Watlington parish.
Watlington
Town
Watlington is a small market town and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England, about 7 miles south of Thame. It is near Oxfordshire's eastern edge and less than 2 miles from its border with Buckinghamshire. Watlington is situated 1½ miles northwest of Christmas Common.
Shirburn
Hamlet
Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Shirburn is a village and civil parish about 6 miles south of Thame in Oxfordshire. It contains the Grade I listed, 14th-century Shirburn Castle, along with its surrounding, Grade II listed park, and a parish church, the oldest part of which is from the Norman period. Shirburn is situated 2 miles northwest of Christmas Common.
Christmas Common
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Watlington, South Oxfordshire District, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.63305° or 51° 37′ 59″ northLongitude
-0.9688° or 0° 58′ 8″ westElevation
787 feet (240 metres)Open location code
9C3XJ2MJ+6FOpenStreetMap ID
node 21688858OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Polish—“Christmas Common” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Christmas Common”
- Esperanto: “Christmas Common”
- French: “Christmas Common”
- Irish: “Christmas Common”
- Polish: “Christmas Common”
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