National Trust & English Heritage places in Oxfordshire

Beech wood and Iron Age hillfort on Badbury Hill near Faringdon, famous for spring bluebells, with a waymarked woodland walk from the National Trust car park on the B4019.

Neoclassical house with the Faringdon Collection and Harold Peto's celebrated Italianate water garden.

A quiet National Trust village on the upper Thames, with a tea-room, a weir pool and lock for picnics, and a riverside circuit to Kelmscott.

Atmospheric unrestored Jacobean house in the Cotswolds where the rules of modern croquet were written.

A Domesday village with the site of a lost Palladian house, restored parkland, a Victorian model farm turned rural skills centre and the wartime headquarters of Britain's secret resistance.

A 13th-century tithe barn that William Morris called 'the finest piece of architecture in England'.

Modest 1930s home of Morris Motors founder Viscount Nuffield, filled with personal treasures and period gardens.

Prehistoric chalk hill figure on the Berkshire Downs, the oldest of its kind in Britain at 3,000 years old.

Chalk grassland and yew woodland on the Chiltern escarpment, with red kites overhead, views over the Oxfordshire Plain and the 18th-century White Mark cut into the hillside.

A 17th-century Baroque county hall raised on arches above Abingdon's Market Place, now the free town museum run by the town council, with rooftop views over the town.

A seventeenth-century water-supply building above Oxford, accessible only on scheduled guided tours.

North Leigh Roman Villa occupies a riverside landscape in the Evenlode valley, where a large Roman estate once supported an exceptionally comfortable household.

A Neolithic long barrow with a facade of huge stones among beech trees, reached on foot along the Ridgeway from White Horse Hill.