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Abingdon works well as a base: 10 minutes from Marcham, 29km from Burford.
Abingdon is in England, United Kingdom, with about 39,000 people. You drive on the left here. The nearest town is Marcham, about 4 km away.
Abingdon Schools Group is a collective name for three merged independent schools based in and near Abingdon, Oxfordshire. It consists of Abingdon Preparatory School (formerly Josca's) as well as the Manor Prep School and Abingdon School. Collectively they offer education from age 4 to 18.
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Within an hour or so of Abingdon: Christ Church Oxford (Great Hall inspiration and staircase) (9 km), Bodleian Library Divinity School (Hogwarts infirmary) (10 km), New College Cloister, Oxford (Moody's ferret scene) (10 km), Bicester Heritage (29 km).
The nearest famous roads are Crystal Palace Circuit, A466 Wye Valley (Chepstow to Monmouth) and Rhinefield Ornamental Drive.
Abingdon is in England, United Kingdom, about 4 km from Marcham.
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112 also works. NHS non-emergency medical advice: 111. National Highways breakdown assistance on motorways: 0300 123 5000.
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The college's hall inspired the Hogwarts Great Hall set, and its 16th-century fan-vaulted Bodley staircase appears as the entry where McGonagall greets first-years.
9 km · about 15 min drive
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Oxford's 15th-century Divinity School was the Hogwarts hospital wing, and Duke Humfrey's Library above it the Hogwarts library.
10 km · about 20 min drive
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The cloister and its ancient holm oak are where Mad-Eye Moody transfigures Draco Malfoy into a ferret in Goblet of Fire.
10 km · about 20 min drive
cafe
A former RAF bomber station transformed into the UK's hub for historic motoring excellence with specialist workshops and regular Scramble events.
29 km · about 35 min drive
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A Cotswold wool town whose broad high street drops steeply to a medieval bridge over the Windrush.
29 km · about 35 min drive
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Charming Cotswolds village famously described by William Morris as the most beautiful village in England, home to the iconic Arlington Row.
39 km · about 45 min drive
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The Jacobethan country house in Hampshire that is Downton Abbey itself; the estate opens to visitors for parts of the year.
39 km · about 45 min drive
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A terrace of 17th-century weavers' cottages beside the Coln in Bibury, once a wool store and among the most photographed buildings in England.
39 km · about 45 min drive
4 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 100km.
April to October
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