Within 30 minutes' walk (two miles)

• King’s Sutton with shop, railway station (on the Banbury-Marylebone line), post-office and three pubs (including the Butchers Arms)
• Adderbury has a few shops and four pubs (including The Red Lion)
• All the local pubs serve food, the Three Tuns in King's Sutton even has a Chinese take-away

Within an hour's towpath walk / four miles by road

• The historic market town of Banbury, famous for its Cross and Cakes
• Banbury boasts a canal-side shopping centre and museum at Castle Quay which can be reached directly by towpath
• A few minutes' walk from Castle Quay is the nearby bowling alley

Within 30 minutes' drive

• Bicester - Bustling market town and home of Bicester Village designer outlet
• Blenheim Palace - Birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill
• The Cotswolds - An area of outstanding natural beauty
• Oxford - The city of dreaming spires
• Silverstone - International motor racing circuit
• Stratford-upon-Avon - Shakespeare country
• Warwick - With its historic castle