From our door

Here for work

• Gaydon

  About 20 minutes' drive

  Jaguar Land Rover, Aston Martin and the British Motor Museum

• The M40

  Under 10 minutes' drive

  Junction 11 for Birmingham and the NEC to the north, Oxford and London to the south

• Banbury town centre

  7 minutes' walk

  Shops, pubs and restaurants for the evening; Banbury Cross is a 7-minute walk, Castle Quay about 20

• Banbury station

  About 18 minutes' walk

  Fast trains to London Marylebone and Birmingham; Oxford in about 20 minutes

Here for the weekend

• Oxford

  The dreaming spires, about 20 minutes by direct train

• The Cotswolds

  Chipping Norton, Burford, Moreton-in-Marsh and Bourton-on-the-Water

• Blenheim Palace

  At Woodstock

• Stratford-upon-Avon

  Shakespeare's town

• Silverstone

  The home of British motor racing

• Soho Farmhouse

  At Great Tew

• Diddly Squat Farm Shop

  Near Chipping Norton

• Bicester Village

  Outlet shopping

• Sulgrave Manor

  The Washington family's ancestral home, a few miles away

• Broughton Castle

  Just outside Banbury

• Upton House

  National Trust

• Warwick Castle

  Up the M40

Links go to each place's own website. Check opening times and events there before you travel.