Come and see
Information for visitors
Churchill is an easy village to walk, with a pub on the green, a tiny museum in a medieval chancel, and two long-distance paths through the middle.
Walk
The Oxfordshire Way and the D’Arcy Dalton Way run through Churchill, on the latter’s route from Wormleighton to Wayland’s Smithy. The local hills are good walking country with wide views. Village Trails, sold at the Heritage Centre, are a fine way into the lanes.
Arrive
Kingham station, on the Cotswold Line, is a few miles south, and London Paddington in well under two hours on a good day. Pulham’s X8 and the Villager community bus link Kingham and Chipping Norton via Churchill on weekdays. Parking in the village is informal; please be considerate on the green.
Stay a while
Eat at the Chequers. See All Saints: the tower is the thing, two-thirds of Magdalen, on a wold. If it is a weekend between April and late September, walk down Hastings Hill to the Heritage Centre. Then a drink on the terrace.
Heritage Centre
Free. Weekends and bank holidays, 2.30 to 4.30pm, until 27 September 2026.
The Chequers
Church Road, OX7 6NJ · 01608 659393
The Villager
A red bus through the wolds
Volunteer-run 16-seaters, Monday to Friday, through the lanes commercial buses skip. Cash fares or a national bus pass. Check current times before you travel. Rural timetables do change.
Churchill sits in the triangle of Chipping Norton, Stow-on-the-Wold and Burford, in the Cotswolds National Landscape.