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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- 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 Village and Bicester North railway station.
Bicester Village
Shopping center
Bicester Village is a designer outlet shopping centre on the outskirts of Bicester, a town in Oxfordshire, England. It is owned by Value Retail plc. The centre opened in 1995.
Bicester North railway station
Railway station
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Bicester North is a station on the Chiltern Main Line, one of two stations serving the market town of Bicester in Oxfordshire. Services operated by Chiltern Railways run south to London Marylebone and north to Banbury, Birmingham Snow Hill and Stratford-upon-Avon.
Bicester Village railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bicester Village is one of two railway stations serving the market town of Bicester in Oxfordshire, alongside Bicester North. It is 12 miles northeast of Oxford on the Oxford–Bicester line near its junction with the Chiltern Main Line.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Caversfield and Launton.
Caversfield
Village
Photo: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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
Photo: Jon S, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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
Photo: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.8988° or 51° 53′ 56″ northLongitude
-1.1519° or 1° 9′ 7″ westPopulation
33,800Elevation
246 feet (75 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BICOpen location code
9C3WVRXX+G6OpenStreetMap ID
node 10863338OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Wu Chinese—“Bicester” goes by many names.
- 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”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bicester”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bicester”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bicester”
- Norwegian: “Bicester”
- 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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Bicester”. Photo: P.khiao, CC BY-SA 4.0.