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The distance from Oxford to London was 78 miles (125.5 km) via Bletchley; 63.5 miles (102.2 km) via Didcot and Reading; 63.25 miles (101.8 km) via Thame and Maidenhead; [83] and 55.75 miles (89.7 km) via Denham. [82] Only the original route is still in use for its full length, portions of the others remain. There were also routes to the north ...
The two South Midland routes were combined with COMS's bus routes from Oxford to High Wycombe and Henley, and given numbers: route 30 (Oxford-Henley-London) and route 70 (Oxford-High Wycombe-London), changed to 390 and 290 in 1975. The M40 motorway between London and Oxford was opened in stages from 1967 to 1974. Occasional non-stop services ...
In August 2009 the airport was rebranded as London Oxford Airport despite its distance from the capital. The move attracted much press comment, [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] and criticism from the Oxford Civic Society, which described the new name as misleading; [ 14 ] the airport is 60 miles (97 km) from Marble Arch in central London and generally ...
The M40 motorway links London, Oxford, and Birmingham in England, a distance of approximately 89 miles (143 km).. The motorway is dual three lanes except for junction 1A to junction 3 (which is dual four lanes) a short section in-between the exit and entry slip-roads at junction 4 (which is two lanes in both directions) and also between the slip-roads at junction 9 (in the south-eastbound ...
Map of Zone 1 Underground stations, pre 2021. London is split into six approximately concentric zones. Zone 1 covers the West End, the Holborn district, Kensington, Paddington and the City of London, as well as Old Street, Angel, Pimlico, Tower Gateway, Aldgate East, Euston, Vauxhall, Elephant & Castle, Borough, London Bridge, Earl's Court, Marylebone, Edgware Road, Lambeth North and Waterloo.
Oxford Street is mentioned in several Charles Dickens novels. In A Tale of Two Cities, as Oxford Road, it is described as having "very few buildings", though it was heavily built up by the late 18th century. It is also mentioned in Sketches by Boz and Bleak House. [131] Oxford Street is one of the London poet Letitia Elizabeth Landon's Scenes ...
London: Follows the march in 1688 of Prince William of Orange and his army from Brixham to London. [44] Oxford Canal Walk: 82 132: Oxfordshire, Warwickshire and the West Midlands: Oxford: Coventry: Follows the towpath of the Oxford Canal. [45] Oxford Green Belt Way: 52 84: Oxfordshire: N/A: N/A: Circular route through the Oxford Green Belt ...
The Varsity Line was the main railway line that linked the English university cities of Oxford and Cambridge, operated by the London and North Western Railway.. In World War II, the line became a strategic route for freight avoiding London, and additional connections were made to nearby lines to improve it, but it was not greatly used for its intended purpose.