🏡Spacious Luxury⚜️- Centre Oxford Science Vale💐

⚜️⚜️15FT DOUBLE ROOM NEWLY AVAILABLE⚜️⚜️. SPACIOUS QUIET CLEAN HOME OXFORD METRO AREA 10 min to centre Oxford, HOME to OLDEST UNIVERSITY ENGLISH SPEAKING WORLD and also the centre of dynamic SCIENCE VALE, UK's equivalent Silicon Valley.

MY OFFERING- HOSPITALITY IN SPACIOUS ACCOMMODATION IN 'BEST OF BOTH WORLD'S IDEAL LOCATION- FASTER TO COMMUTE INTO OXFORD THAN MOST OXFORD SUBURBS WHILE ABLE TO RELAX EVENINGS and WEEKENDS FROM EDGY UNDERBELLY OF OXFORD.

⭐⭐WELCOME to my spacious refurbished 3 bedroom home, share occasionally w me. I work 4 days a week until late, away 1-2 weekends. My other guest's also away 1-2 weeknights managing projects and weekends too. So HOUSE EXCEPTIONALLY QUIET, OFTEN HAVE TO ONESELF😀 🎈🎉

⭐⭐Science says where choose to live is THE most important factor to HAPPINESS😅, HEALTH & WELLBEING🧎

⭐⭐A key question to consider: do you want SPACE, PRIVACY and QUIET in a spacious luxury green home w large garden and all mod cons and ENJOY, CHILL OUT & RELAX 7 DAYS A WEEK, or alternately 'survive' in an edgy stressful crammed bedsit HMO🥶 ('House of Multiple Occupation) w 6-12 people on top of each other w their well known 'pressure cooker atmosphere😵‍💫', weekends often having to flee to parents to escape pressures and stresses😵?

⭐⭐Psychologically, who wants to be crammed in HMO bedsits like sardines with frazzled souls, stressing out queuing 🥱for everything every day just to SAVE A POUND or TWO A DAY? It barely seems worth it when you consider HAPPINESS, RELAXING and ENJOYING A QUALITY OF LIFE ARE KEYS TO WELLBEING. Is saving half the price of a coffee a day worth all that?

⭐⭐Mine's a LOVED HOME❤️: been in Hospitality 2 decades and regard you as a WELCOME GUEST. Thus, I've taken time providing key info estate agents/corporate landlords have little interest in, interested more counting every penny cramming in as many tenants into their numerous 'investment' bedsits and house tenants changing weekly/monthly and new stranger(s) arriving. To them its just profit and money💰💰. (Ask yourself: would they ever live in the bedsits they offer? The answer's obvious, whereas I'm VERY HAPPY living in a home sharing with a valued guest!😀)

⭐⭐FRIENDLY WARM HELPFUL FEMALE owner- I've lived/worked in Oxford past 15 years, know area well. Can offer my expertise and advice on Oxford metro to anyone new to area on where to go and what to do

⭐CLEAN QUIET PEACEFUL well maintained LUXURY RENOVATED 220SQM fully furnished 2 BATHROOMS 3 DOUBLE BEDROOM home; £50,000 furniture & fittings. Quiet set well back on parkland 'village green'.

⭐LARGE BEDROOM 🛏️15ft x 12ft (4m x3.2m) KING SIZE BED. £2500 William Morris rugs/curtains. V QUIET OVERLOOKS LARGE QUIET PEACEFUL REAR GARDEN💐

⭐NEW 2nd BATHROOM exclusive guests🛁🚽

⭐RELAX, STRETCH OUT & CHILL- large 27ft FAMILY ROOM/KITCHEN, SITTING ROOM w John Lewis leather sofa and chairs🛋️

⭐CLEAN DAILY; FRESH WHOLESOME FOOD DAILY by arrangement

⭐GREEN- 2 flower bouquets 💐💐changed weekly, many indoor and outdoor plants🌹🪻🌻. LARGE fully maintained 1000sqm GARDEN- 2 classic 2m tall Graeco-Roman marble statues, BARBECUE.

⭐SLEEP EASY 💤 AND V QUIET- ONLY 3 BEDROOMS

⭐SHARE BATHROOM w ONLY ONE OTHER GUEST SO HAVE PRIVACY. NO QUEUEING FOR TOILET SHOWER KITCHEN (Bedsit 'HMO' tenants struggle to find clean pan, plate, cutlery and seat on 'communal' bench, no space to relax, so to get peace and quiet from 6-10 fellow occupants, eat in their bedsits after a hard day's work. Most HMOs are noisy at night 🥱 w occupants coming going all hours😵. Getting a good night's sleep is hard😫. Tenants change frequently so often bump into strangers at night)

⭐V SPACIOUS GENEROUS 75SQM LIVING SPACE PER PERSON. Often away weekends so you get WHOLE 220 SqM LUXURY HOME to yourself (EXTRA SPACE in huge 2 storey 100 SqM fully equipped 2 STOREY WORKSHOP GARAGE)

⭐27FT KITCHEN/FAMILY ROOM- FULLY EQUIPPED - brand new TOP OF RANGE £4000 SMEG range cooker w 4 ovens+grill ; American fridge freezer; top combi microwave oven; MIELE washing machine; top range Nespresso coffee machine; Smeg toaster; 2nd electric grill; every cooking utensil imaginable!

⭐SITTING ROOM- brand new £3000 John Lewis leather sofa + armchair, LARGE TV, antiques, £5000 rugs, classic William Morris curtains

⭐UNLIMITED superfast BROADBAND BT Openzone
⭐ SECURE OFF ROAD PARKING
⭐ 4 CCTV CAMERAS protect house/car🎥
⭐ SEPARATE DESK/STUDY AREA
⭐Any maintenance issue, available 24/7
⭐ Ultra convenient TESCO/2nd grocery shop 7 DAYS A WEEK 6AM-11PM, WAITROSE 5 min stroll, new largest M & S Food and largest Tesco in Oxfordshire
⭐Speak fluent English🇬🇧/Portuguese🇧🇷🇵🇹, converse Spanish🇪🇸/Italian🇮🇹, strong connections Australia🇦🇺/Latin America

⭐4 TIMES MORE LIVING SPACE than cold cramped bedsit HMOs. (In identically sized properties, HMOs have removed family room and sitting room turning into 3 more bedrooms so cramming in 6 bedrooms, charging 6-8 well paid English professionals £950-1000 for bedsits. The 26-27 HMO bedsit tenants working mostly in Oxford know N Abingdon is quicker to commute both into Oxford than most Oxford residents and its also quicker to get to Science Vale's technology parks. It is the ideal location for working/socialising in Oxford.

IT'S 'THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS': Oxford for commuting to and working and socialising but evenings and weekends able to relax properly and recharge batteries without downside of edgy problematic underbelly of today's Oxford (ever since its predominant 'MOTOWN' INDUSTRIAL FACTORY SIDE DECLINED IN THE 80s to 2000s, even if the motor industry is still its 2nd largest industry).

⭐Centre of Oxford's 'Science Vale' and with majority of science and technology parks on south side of Oxford

⭐EXCELLENT PUBLIC TRANSPORT- OXFORD METRO's
NORTH ABINGDON EFFECTIVELY INNER SUBURB due to Oxford congestion - only 3 BUS STOPS 7 MIN to PARK & RIDE; 5 min by car (fly 🛩️ at 60mph on dual carriageway thru Bagley Wood and upmarket Boars Hill, instead of being stuck in Oxford's congested roads where speeds average just 10mph).

⭐ 🚍BUS STOP ADJACENT HOUSE- FAST FREQUENT BUSES EVERY 10 MIN, 24 HRS A DAY (Oxford railway stn (12 min), Culham 5 min Milton Park/Harwell 15 min. Radley station 5 min w free parking and 5 min to Oxford railway station. Trains to Paddington 45-50 min

⭐Official Oxford Bus timetables prove it's QUICKER to city centre from my home than 80% of Oxford suburbs). Buses fly 🛩️ in on dual carriageway thru Bagley Wood/Boars Hill at 60mph/100kph to city centre. It's even faster on A34 to Kidlington from my home than most residents can from Oxford

⭐Top of hill above Thames (so NOT prone to flooding🌊- some Spareroomers have got a surprise being flooded up to 5 times past year in parts of Oxford/Abingdon metro).


BASIC FACTS OXFORD METRO
⭐10 min car. 15 min by bus, to centre Oxford's Carfax/High Street. Time wise, it's quicker to get to than 80% due to Oxford and suburbs having WORST CONGESTION IN UK. The reason my commute to centre Oxford is so fast is due to geography and how Oxford's city border is so oddly shaped. Oxford's built up area southwest (to River Thames) is only 500m from Carfax, Yet to the north, south & east the city borders stretch for miles and miles 7km, all completely built up areas, hence gridlock. My 6km commute to Carfax is mostly on A34 dual carriageway at 60mph, so no roads or traffic lights slowing me down).

⚠️New £5 DAILY OXFORD CONGESTION CHARGE (IN ADDITION TO CURRENT £10 CHARGE)- drivers will be subject to 7 DAYS A WEEK 7am-7pm at 7 charge points blocking off city and many suburbs, incl main roads between Cowley and Headington. 😀😀SOLE ROAD EXEMPT INTO CITY CENTRE is ABINGDON RD to Westgate car park, sole shopping centre!)👍

⭐Abingdon's SAFELY MIDDLE CLASS whereas 500m from my home in OX1, Oxford town is edgier w significant areas of poverty, deprivation and crime. Urban flight from Oxford has led OU academics, the middle class and wealthier fleeing Oxford's urban deprivation, to safer more relaxing prosperous areas on edge of city limits, and Abingdon in particular.

⭐Oxford is 'BEDSIT LAND' having most HMOs IN ALL UK (a staggering 3,500 legal HMOs w 25,000 bedsits and 1000 illegal HMOs w 7000 more bedsits in standard population of 120,000). Sadly everywhere within Oxford City one is 200-300m from a crime hotspot. Worse, Oxford's largest crime category is violence, more than half of all crimes. In contrast Abingdon's got only 25 HMOs w just 90 bedsit spaces👍 in 45000 population and a tenth the crime level 😄😄. Yes Oxford's great for working in, but hardly relaxing or conducive to a productive quality of life.

⭐Both Oxford and Abingdon are international in outlook. Oxford is now 50% overseas born, while Abingdon's a more modest 25%

Whenever advertised, invariably room taken by person invited to view and who appreciate a few finer things in life.

Oxford metro area has highest rents in UK after London due to desirability and exceptional demand from 'Science Vale' Tech Triangle (UK's version of Silicon Valley) and world famous university. Many Oxford academics who lived in Oxford for a year or so then prefer to move to Abingdon, given the Oxford city's serious social/crime problems and multi deprivation poverty areas, which middle class Abingdon simply doesn't have.

Masters and DPhil students new to Oxford might initially start in areas they think could get them into town centre quickly, before they realise after a few weeks and experiencing Oxford's commuting delays and so follow their academic peers, scientists and professionals to safer, greener more prosperous Abingdon.

🏠Rental facts (added only because half of SpareRoom seekers set a budget below even the local Housing Benefit rate (set at bottom 1% of rents in 15 mile radius of Oxford)🏠:-
1) the latest govt statistics released Aug 2025 say rents in Oxford area have increased 11.75% due to exceptional demand;
2) UK Govt Housing Benefit website shows rents paid in every locality by type, from 'single unfurnished room' up to '4 bedroom house'. This confirms the Oxford-Abingdon 'Broad Rental Market Area' BRMA a 15 mile radius centred on N Abingdon has highest average rents in UK outside London. This high rent is despite the BRMA 'average' includes Carterton Witney Wantage Wallingford Thame, with large numbers of rural lets dropping this 'average'. Their commute times to Oxford are between 40-50 mins
3) Spareroom's own research- Oxford Abingdon 'has highest rents outside London', average Spareroomer 2 years ago paid £850 (rent only) w 'over 72% paying more than budgeted';


⭐NO TRICK PHOTOS- not used estate agent software magically making small flats and HMO bedsits look bigger and showing only a photo of the largest bedsit room, always 'gone' of course!😄)

**** GENERAL INFO ****
⭐Abingdon adjoins OX1 and Oxford City but is separated by 2 miles green belt buffer OX1's Bagley Wood/Boar's Hill. Abingdon's officially Oxfordshire's most prosperous area per latest 2021 census w HIGHEST AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD INCOMES, 20% HIGHER than Oxford. Abingdon and Oxford house prices on average same (govt Land Registry 2024). Quirky info: Abingdon's UK's 'longest continually inhabited settlement,' with building foundations 5000 years old, a tad older than Oxford by 4000 years. Royal Berkshire's county town 700 years until 1868, has beautiful Wren designed County Hall. Had UK's 3rd richest abbey- until Cardinal Wolsey plundered it to build Christ Church College😂

⭐LEISURE TIME
8 coffee shops incl largest Starbucks in Oxford metro incl 4 independents incl Missing Bean, 20 pubs 🍻🍾incl 3 scenic riverside Thames pubs🥂🍹🍸 w pub gardens, exquisite views. Nearest pub 2 min walk (former home, MG sports car founder, just had £1M refurb w huge spacious gardens); historic Abbey cinema🎬; FOOD SHOPPING- largest Waitrose, M&S Food and Tesco in Oxford metro and county; 2 independent bakeries.

⭐EXERCISE & RECREATION
Surprisingly Abingdon with a quarter the population has far more extensive public sports facilities than Oxford: idyllic famous large outdoor pool overlooks Thames🏊. Boxhill Park🧎 1 min away w full gym equipment🏋️; large 10 lane indoor swimming pool/sports centre🤽w 10 tennis courts, 4 squash courts🎾🏸 etc. 5 gyms in town. Abingdon School and Radley College have extensive sports facilities incl Tilsley Park athletics stadium and pristine complex, 4 all weather hockey pitches, more tennis courts. Home to Oxford's American Rules Football team. Thames boating🚣; jogging🏃; golf⛳, rugby football⚽ and tennis clubs🎾.

*5 min stroll🚶to historic Abingdon-on-Thames centre or via Boxhill Park or Sturt River nature trail w kingfishers 🦜and wildlife🦡. Extensive Thames river parkland v pleasant relaxing walk/cycle🚴, beautiful Abbey Gardens💐, Abingdon lock🚤 .Bagley Woods and Boar's Hill 3 mins has endless walks and cycle trails 🏕️Cotswolds/Chiltern Hills; Thames Path for miles

⭐ABINGDON ULTRA SAFE😃- 'OXFORDSHIRE'S SAFEST TOWN'👮 per crimerate'). Abingdon has 1/10 crime PER CAPITA of Oxford (⚠️Oxford has highest per capita crime rate in Thames Valley Police area, higher even than Slough🦹, and shockingly worse even than London's worst borough). Banbury, Didcot & Bicester also have 6-8 times more crime per capita than ultra safe Abingdon!😃

⭐Of Oxfordshire's 65 wards, N ABINGDON is COUNTY'S 2ND SAFEST WARD. (OXFORD, JERICHO & COWLEY wards have county's WORST CRIME- 3 MURDERS past year of innocent people- Walton St/Clarendon St, Jericho by University Press, Radcliffe Sq Bodleian Library, and Cowley/Iffley Rd 2 marauding gangs).

⭐ Abingdon has few social deprivation problems of Oxford, Banbury and Didcot (w 20, 12 and 6 'Multi Deprivation Areas', official UK Govt poverty statistics).

⭐EDUCATION🧑‍🎓- 5 SCHOOLS IN UK's 'SUNDAY TIMES TOP 50 SCHOOLS' in national league tables' incl Oxfordshire's best girls school. Unparalleled educational excellence, only London has greater concentration of top schools in Top 50 in country.

Usually person invited to view takes room. A good fit is with a person who appreciates a slightly higher standard and a few of the finer things in life.

Any further questions, more than happy to try and answer! 😃
Nicky

Also show same ad under ABINGDON. (SpareRoom website classifies Wootton Kennington Boars Hill as 'Oxford' though they're only 500m up road and they're far closer to Abingdon than Oxford Council and they adjoin my it takes longer to travel by bus/car into central Oxford as North Abingdon). If congestion charge introduced in a week it will be both far cheaper and quicker to get into central Oxford from my home than 80% Oxford.