Living in Watchfield
Watchfield is a village located in the Vale of White Horse about 1 mile north of Shrivenham village.
Local amenities include restaurants, convenience stores, hairdressers and a pub restaurant called ‘The College Farm’ where you can get 20% student discount on food on Mondays.
The village is home to the Shrivenham Hundred Business Park which hosts a wide variety of businesses of various sizes working within diverse sectors. Watchfield is also the location for Westmill Wind Farm Co-operative – a community-owned wind farm with five 1.2MW wind turbines and the Westmill Solar Co-operative – believed to be the largest community-owned photovoltaic power station in the world with over 21,000 solar panels.
Watchfield is located about 10 miles away from Swindon and 20 miles from Oxford and has a regular bus service to both on the S6 bus which stops just outside of the gates to the Defence Academy.
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Watchfield High Street (courtesy of Shrivenham Heritage Society)
Watchfield map
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Watchfield map
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