Bicester
Bicester is a market town located in the north-east of the English county of Oxfordshire, some miles north of the university town of Oxford. It has become a popular destination on account of its being the location of Bicester Village, a large factory and designer outlet shopping village.- Type: Town with 33,800 residents
- Description: town and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England
- Also known as: “Bicester, Oxfordshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bicester North railway station and Bicester Village railway station.
Bicester North railway station
Railway station
Bicester North is a station on the Chiltern Main Line, one of two serving the market town of Bicester, in Oxfordshire, England; the other is Bicester Village.
Bicester Village railway station
Railway station
Bicester Village is one of two railway stations serving Bicester, in Oxfordshire, England; the other is Bicester North. It lies 12 miles north-east of Oxford on the Oxford–Bicester line, near to its junction with the Chiltern Main Line.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Caversfield and Launton.
Caversfield
Village
Caversfield is a village and civil parish about 1+1⁄2 miles north of the centre of Bicester. In 1844 Caversfield became part of Oxfordshire, but until then it was always an exclave of Buckinghamshire. The 2011 census recorded the parish's population as 1,788.
Launton
Village
Launton is a village and civil parish on the eastern outskirts of Bicester, Oxfordshire, England. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 1,204.
Ambrosden
Village
Ambrosden is a village and civil parish in Cherwell, Oxfordshire, England, 3 miles southwest of Bicester to which it is linked by the A41 road, and 13 miles from Oxford. Ambrosden is situated 2 miles southeast of Bicester.
Bicester
- Categories: civil parish, market town, and locality
- Location: Cherwell, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.8988° or 51° 53′ 56″ north
Longitude
-1.1519° or 1° 9′ 7″ west
Population
33,800
Elevation
246 feet (75 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB BIC
Open location code
9C3WVRXX+G6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Bicester” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيسستر”
- Asturian: “Bicester”
- Basque: “Bicester”
- Bengali: “বিকেস্টার”
- Catalan: “Bicester”
- Cebuano: “Bicester”
- Chinese: “Bicester”
- Chinese: “比斯特”
- Chinese: “比斯特鎮”
- Chinese: “比斯特镇”
- Cornish: “Kargrug”
- Danish: “Bicester”
- Dutch: “Bicester”
- Esperanto: “Bicester”
- French: “Bicester”
- German: “Bicester”
- Gujarati: “બિસેસ્ટર”
- Irish: “Bicester”
- Italian: “Bicester”
- Japanese: “ビスター”
- Kannada: “ಬೈಸೆಸ್ಟರ್”
- Korean: “비체스터”
- Ladin: “Bicester”
- Lithuanian: “Bičesteris”
- Lithuanian: “Bisteris”
- Macedonian: “Бистер”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bicester”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bicester”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bicester”
- Norwegian: “Bicester”
- Persian: “بیستر”
- Persian: “بیسستر”
- Polish: “Bicester”
- Portuguese: “Bicester”
- Romanian: “Bicester”
- Russian: “Бистер”
- Russian: “Бичестер”
- Scots: “Bicester”
- South Azerbaijani: “بیسستر”
- Spanish: “Bicester”
- Swedish: “Bicester”
- Tamil: “பைசெஸ்டர்”
- Telugu: “బిక్ఈస్టర్”
- Turkish: “Bicester”
- Urdu: “بیسسٹر”
- Volapük: “Bicester”
- Welsh: “Bicester”
- Wu Chinese: “比斯特 (英国)”
- Wu Chinese: “比斯特(英国)”
- “Bicester”
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