Oakley

Oakley is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England. It has an area of 2,206 acres and includes about 400 households. The 2021 Census recorded the population as 1,128.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bernwood Forest and Boarstall Tower.

Bernwood Forest

Forest

Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bernwood Forest is a forest in England. Historically it was one of several forests of the ancient Kingdom of England and was a Royal hunting forest. It is thought to have been set aside as Royal hunting land when the Anglo-Saxon kings had a palace at Brill and church in Oakley, in the 10th century and was a particularly favoured place of Edward the Confessor, who was born in nearby Islip.

Boarstall Tower

Photo: Graham Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Boarstall Tower is a 14th-century moated gatehouse located in Boarstall, Buckinghamshire, England, and now, with its surrounding gardens, a National Trust property.

Church of St Mary

Church

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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Piddington and Waterperry.

Piddington

Village

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Piddington is a village, about 4.5 miles southeast of Bicester in Oxfordshire, England. It lies close to the border with Buckinghamshire. The 2021 census recorded the parish's population as 358. Piddington is situated 3½ miles north of Oakley.

Waterperry

Hamlet

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Waterperry is a village in the civil parish of Waterperry with Thomley, in the South Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England. It lies about 7 miles east of Oxford and is in the valley of the River Thame, close to the county boundary with Buckinghamshire. Waterperry is situated 3 miles south of Oakley.

Holton

Hamlet

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Holton is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire about 5.5 miles east of Oxford. The parish is bounded to the southeast by the River Thame, to the east and north by the Thame's tributary Holton Brook, to the south by London Road and to the west by field boundaries with the parishes of Forest Hill with Shotover and Stanton St John. Holton is situated 3½ miles southwest of Oakley.

Oakley

Type: Locality
Location: Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.7978° or 51° 47′ 52″ north

Longitude

-1.0746° or 1° 4′ 29″ west

Elevation

269 feet (82 metres)

Open location code

9C3WQWXG+45

GeoNames ID

7296407

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