While Bernwood Park is a destination in its own right, with three restaurants, a golf club and 18-hole course, Wellness Suite and beautiful grounds, we are also positioned between the Cotswolds, the Chilterns and the North Wessex Downs National Landscape, with a host of activities and attractions on our doorstep. Here’s some of the best.
Bernwood Park to Oxford by taxi or Uber: 11.9 miles, 35 minutes
Oxford railway station to London Marylebone station: approximately one hour
Bernwood Park to Heathrow Airport by car: approximately one hour
Bernwood Park to Birmingham Airport by car: approximately one hour 15 minutes
This internationally-renowned designer shopping haven – just 8 miles (15 minutes by car) – needs no introduction. Described as ‘a curated mile of over 150 luxury brands’, you won’t find better deals on brands including Ralph Lauren, Armani, North Face, Prada, The White Company and many more.
Designer Shopping in Oxfordshire near London | Bicester Village
Just 12 miles and half an hour’s drive from Bernwood Park. Bursting with museums, galleries, recognisable film locations for Harry Potter, Peaky Blinders and Bridgerton fans, independent boutiques and golden limestone heritage buildings.
The Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty starts just 12 miles to the West of Bernwood Park. Iconic Cotswolds villages such as Woodstock, Chipping Norton, Burford, Stow-on-the-Wold are within a leisurely, country-lane drive of Bernwood Park.
Britain’s greatest palace’ with 2,000 acres of Capability Brown-landscaped gardens, and birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill is a UNESCO World Heritage Site just 12 miles and half an hour’s drive from Bernwood Park.
There’s Bernwood Meadows and Bernwood Forest with flat, well-kept paths that are equally appealing in winter as in summer. RSPB Otmoor – a haven for wildlife, wading birds, wildfowl, warblers and songbirds, lapwing, redshanks, snipe – is a 15-minute drive from Bernwood Park and takes in the stunningly beautiful village of Horton-cum-Studley.
A French-inspired chateau, built by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild in 1874, is just 12 miles from Bernwood Park.
Bernwood Park is beautifully positioned for exploring the Cotswolds, the Chilterns and the North Wessex Downs. We’re just 5 miles from Worminghall, a joining point for National Cycle Network Route 57, on which you can cycle West to Oxford, or East to Chesham. Largely on country lanes, this route follows the Phoenix Trail along the route of a disused railway, and just 16 miles from the Hotel is the village of Princes Risborough which every September hosts the famous ‘Kop Hill Climb’ for vintage racing cars and motorbikes, and soapboxes.