Shirburn

Places of Interest

Chiltern Hills

Photo: Simon Q, CC BY 2.0.

The Chiltern Hills span the area between Wessex in the South West and Hitchin in Hertfordshire - across much of Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire. These rolling hills feature swathes of habitat-rich grassland, broken up by ancient beech, ash and box woodland.

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.

Cowleaze Wood

Forest

Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Cowleaze Wood is a 70-acre woodland in the Chiltern Hills, a chalk ridge in South East England. The wood is in the civil parish of Lewknor, in Oxfordshire, about 1+1⁄4 miles southeast of the village.

Places in the Area

Watlington

Town

Photo: Stortford, CC BY 4.0.

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.

Stokenchurch

Village

Photo: David Ellis, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Stokenchurch is a village and civil parish in south-west Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the Chiltern Hills, about 3 miles south of Chinnor in Oxfordshire and 6 miles west of High Wycombe. Stokenchurch is situated 3½ miles east of Shirburn.

Lewknor

Village

Photo: UKgeofan, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Lewknor is a village and civil parish about 5 miles south of Thame in Oxfordshire. The civil parish includes the villages of Postcombe and South Weston. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 663.

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