19 miles
££
Oxfordshire
Cotswold View Caravan and Camping Park
Charlbury, Oxfordshire
Charlbury station is a walkable mile away, with Oxford 15 minutes down the line.
+5
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Best campsites for car-free days
Park once on Friday, drive nowhere until Monday.
The best measure of a family campsite is how little you touch the car once the tent is up. Every site here puts a full day out, a town, a towpath, a palace or a city, within reach on foot, by bike or by train, so the holiday starts the moment you park.
Two of these sites even manage the near-impossible: proper countryside camping with a railway station in walking distance. Charlbury's trains reach Oxford in 15 minutes, and Moreton-in-Marsh sits on the same Cotswold Line.
6 hand-picked sites, in our order of preference
19 miles
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26 miles
££
The Cotswolds
Moreton-in-Marsh Caravan and Motorhome Club Site
Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire
A flat stroll to a market town with its own Cotswold Line station.
+2
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17 miles
££
Oxfordshire
Oxford Camping and Caravanning Club Site
Abingdon Road, Oxford
Buses at the gate and a flat towpath walk into the middle of Oxford.
+1
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26 miles
££
Wiltshire
Devizes Camping and Caravanning Club Site
Seend, near Devizes, Wiltshire
Traffic-free towpath rides to Caen Hill Locks straight from your pitch.
+2
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21 miles
££
Oxfordshire
Riverside Park
Wallingford, Oxfordshire
The whole town, splash park included, on foot over the medieval bridge.
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24 miles
££
The Cotswolds
The Wildings Campsite
Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire
A footpath mile into Bourton-on-the-Water, then back out to a car-free field.
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Can you go camping near Oxford without using a car every day?
Yes. Cotswold View at Charlbury has a station a mile's walk away with 15-minute trains to Oxford. The Oxford Camping and Caravanning Club Site has buses at the gate and a towpath walk into the city. Moreton-in-Marsh, Devizes (canal towpath), Wallingford and The Wildings (a footpath walk into Bourton-on-the-Water) all offer full car-free days.