🏡Spacious Luxury⚜️Oxford & Science Vale💐

⚜️⚜️"BEST OF BOTH WORLDS"⚜️⚜️
⚜️⚜️15FT DOUBLE ROOM NEWLY AVAILABLE⚜️⚜️. SPACIOUS QUIET CLEAN HOME OXFORD METRO AREA 10 min centre Oxford, home to OLDEST UNIVERSITY ENGLISH SPEAKING WORLD and UK's equivalent Silicon Valley, DYNAMIC OXFORD SCIENCE VALE .

⚜️⚜️OFFERING HOSPITALITY- SPACIOUS ACCOMMODATION IN 'BEST OF BOTH WORLDS' IDEAL LOCATION- FASTER GETTING INTO OXFORD THAN MOST OXFORD SUBURBS and AVOID ANNUAL OXFORD CONGESTION while RELAX EVENINGS/WEEKENDS from edgier aspects of Oxford; HEART OF OXFORD SCIENCE VALE⚜️⚜️

⭐⭐AVOID OXFORD CONGESTION CHARGE- COST £1300⚠️ 6 CHARGE POINTS INNER 3KM and at KEY ROADS 7KM OUT between OXFORD NORTH & EAST AND COWLEY & HEADINGTON- starts Oct 25- applies to everyone.
ONLY FROM 👍ABINGDON or 👍ABINGDON RD can drivers avoid CHARGE and get to 250m of Carfax, main car park (Westgate)

⭐⭐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 many weeknights managing projects and weekends. 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? Do you want PRIVACY & QUIET in a spacious luxury green home w large ornate garden and all mod cons ENJOY, CHILL OUT & RELAX 7 DAYS A WEEK, or alternately 'survive' in an edgier stressful bedsit HMO🥶 ('House of Multiple Occupation) w 6-12 people crammed on top of each other w their well known 'pressure cooker atmosphere😵‍💫', weekends fleeing to parents to escape stress😵 and new strangers suddenly appearing in house corridor weekly or monthly

⭐⭐Psychologically, few want to be in bedsit HMOs, queuing 🥱for everything every day and stressing out. It's barely worth it if you consider HAPPINESS, RELAXING and ENJOYING A QUALITY OF LIFE are KEYS TO WELLBEING. Is 'saving' £1 or half a cup coffee a day worth the queuing, stress, lack of privacy etc?

⭐⭐Mine's a LOVED HOME❤️ with human touch: in Hospitality 2 decades running Oxford's 2 largest coffee shops and offering freshest food.

I regard you as a WELCOME GUEST. I'VE OFFERED KEY INFO BECAUSE I CARE:-

(Estate agents/corporate landlords don't really care, more interested counting every penny cramming in as many of their 50-100 tenants into their multiple 'investment' bedsits. To them its just business and squeezing profits💰💰. (Ask yourself: would they ever live in the bedsits they offer? The answer's obvious, whereas I'm VERY HAPPY living in a loved home sharing with a valued guest!😀)

⭐⭐FRIENDLY WARM HELPFUL FEMALE owner- I've lived/worked in Oxford past 15 years, so know Oxford very well indeed as you will see if you read on. Can offer expertise and experience on the real Oxford to anyone wanting to know about this beautiful famous city and newer high tech Oxford Science Vale

⭐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 'Northcourt 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, brand new John Lewis leather sofa & chairs🛋️

⭐CLEAN DAILY; FRESH WHOLESOME FOOD DAILY by arrangement. (In most HMOs, occupants must do all the cleaning or pay for it, so problems invariably arise)

⭐GREEN LARGE SUPERB ORNATE 1000sqm GARDEN w LARGE LAWNS- 2 FLOWER BOUQUETS 💐💐changed weekly, many indoor & outdoor plants🌹🪻🌻 spend £3000 annually on plants and flowers (no charge for). 2 classic 2m tall Graeco-Roman marble statues, BARBECUE.

⭐SLEEP EASY 💤 V QUIET- ONLY 3 BEDROOMS. (HMOs have 6-12 bedsits and are noisy at nights 🥱 occupants coming going all hours😵. Getting a good night's sleep is hard😫. Tenants change frequently so often bump into new strangers in corridors at night)

⭐PRIVACY, QUIET & 'ME TIME'- SHARE BATHROOM w ONLY OTHER GUEST. NO QUEUING FOR TOILET SHOWER KITCHEN (Bedsit tenants struggle to find clean pan, plate, cutlery and seat, little space to relax, so after a hard day's work to get some peace and quiet from 6-12 fellow occupants, often eat cocooned in their bedsits, and weekends fleeing to parents, coffee shops, pubs or the gym to enjoy some peace, quiet and 'me time'.

⭐V SPACIOUS GENEROUS 75SQM LIVING SPACE PER PERSON. When away weekends you get WHOLE 220 SqM LUXURY HOME to yourself (EXTRA SPACE 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 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- new £3000 John Lewis leather sofa + armchair, LARGE TV, antiques, £5000 rugs, classic William Morris decor inspires love of Oxford
⭐ 4 CCTV CAMERAS protect house/car🎥
⭐ SECURE OFF ROAD PARKING
⭐UNLIMITED superfast BROADBAND BT Openzone
⭐ SEPARATE DESK/STUDY AREA
⭐Any maintenance issue, available 24/7
⭐ Ultra convenient TESCO/2nd grocery shop 7 DAYS A WEEK 6AM-11PM, Chinese & Italian/pizza takeaways, 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 bedsit HMOs. (Identical sized HMO businesses have removed family room and sitting room making 3 more bedrooms, cramming in 6 bedsit rooms, charging 6-8 well paid English professionals £950-1000pm. Locals working mostly in Oxford know N Abingdon is faster for commuting into centre Oxford centre than most city residents and faster to Oxford Science Vale tech parks

⭐⭐ 'THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS': 10 min commute to Oxford for work/socialising; evenings/weekends relaxing properly and winding down without downside of today's edgier Oxford (after its 'Motown' industrial factories declined and deprived poverty areas increased, crime rose markedly. Motor industry still however 2nd largest industry.

⭐CENTRE 'OXFORD SCIENCE VALE'- almost all science & technology parks and world class research establishments are here on south side outside Oxford (just one north, 10 miles outside near airport). Largest sector DYNAMIC Science & Technology hence why household incomes 20% higher than Oxford city and more prosperous. Most science tech research leaders have chosen to cluster and locate outside Oxford city because of city issues like poor housing, congestion, pollution, crime etc making staff less relaxed and less productive

⭐EXCELLENT TRANSPORT LINKS- OXFORD METRO N ABINGDON EFFECTIVELY MADE AN INNER OXFORD SUBURB DUE TO A34- I'm only 3 BUS STOPS 7 MIN to PARK & RIDE; 5 min by car (fly 🛩️ at 60mph on dual carriageway thru Bagley Wood/upmarket Boars Hill, instead of stuck on Oxford's congested roads w average speed 9mph ie speed of a horse & carriage).

⭐ 🚍BUS STOP 20 seconds away- 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, 5 min to Oxford railway station. Trains to Paddington 45 min

⭐OFFICIAL 'OXFORD BUS' TIMETABLES PROVE FASTER TO CITY CENTRE from my home than 80% of Oxford suburbs as buses fly 🛩️ at 60mph on A34 thru Bagley Wood/Boars Hill to city centre. (And It's faster from my home on A34 to north and west side of Oxford than most residents within city walls suffering from Oxford gridlock

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


KEY FACTS OXFORD METRO

Though small, Oxford BRANDED EUROPE'S 13th MOST CONGESTED CITY BY EU w UK'S WORST TRAFFIC SPEEDS due to medieval road system-average speed 9mph (ie horse & carriage speed!😄)
⚠️New £1300 ANNUAL COST TO OXFORD DRIVERS- £5 DAILY OXFORD CONGESTION CHARGE (additional to current £10 CHARGE in inner 3 km) 7 DAYS A WEEK 7AM-7PM at 6 charge points blocking off city and many suburbs, incl ONLY ROAD North & East Oxford and ONLY ROAD Cowley & Headington. Worse, LTNs block off many roads charge £70 if accidentally go thru intentionally funnel traffic into the 6 new congestion charge points on Oxford's 4 main medieval roads
👍👍SOLE ROAD EXEMPT to within 250m CITY CENTRE is ABINGDON RD to Westgate car park!)👍

⭐ 10 min car 15 min bus to centre Oxford Carfax/High Street. Time wise, it's quicker to commute than 80% of suburban Oxford residents due to Oxford having WORST CONGESTION IN UK. Reason my daily commute to Carfax is so fast is simply due to A34! SO NO ROADS OR TRAFFIC LIGHTS SLOWING ME DOWN!

⚠️OXFORD CITY COUNCIL V ODD SHAPE- southwest from Carfax to River Thames it's JUST 500m(!) then green belt and woods in OX1, to within 500m of my home. Yet to north, south & east, built up areas OX2, OX3 & OX4 POSTCODES STRETCH MILES AND MILES 10km thru built up areas, hence Oxford gridlock. My 6km daily commute to Carfax MOSTLY A34 DUAL CARRIAGEWAY AT 60MPH thru green belt!

OX1 (Oxford's wealthiest postcode), only 25% is within city council. For the combined OX1, OX2, OX3 and OX4 postcodes, only 30% of 'Oxford' postcodes are in the city council and 70% outside its quirky city borders

⭐BREATHE FRESH AIR- MUCH LOWER (4-8 times) POLLUTION LEVELS due to Oxford's traffic gridlock and motor factories. (Worst are St Clements/Headington Rd, Cowley and Iffley Rds at unsafe toxic levels)

⭐ABINGDON MORE MIDDLE CLASS. 500m up from my home OX1's BOARS HILL/BAGLEY WOOD is wealthiest area in whole county. However go down the hill cross the Thames into the city and its far edgier w significant areas of poverty, deprivation and crime. URBAN FLIGHT has led to many senior OU academics, science tech leaders, professional middle class and wealthier fleeing Oxford's urban deprivation to safer areas just outside quirky city border, and N Abingdon in particular.

Oxford has smaller pockets of prosperity (Walton Manor and an area in north of OX2, but mostly it's below average income and high deprivation poverty areas

CAR INSURANCE FAR CHEAPER- in Oxford city due to crime it's 2-5 times higher (its one reason why so many households within Oxford have no car, even though its traditionally a car making city w many car workers!)

OXFORD COMPRISES 2 CONSTITUENCIES w 2 MPs- 'Abingdon & Oxford West'- moderate, very pro EU reflects wealth, dynamic science tech sector and Oxford Uni; 'Oxford East' (really Oxford East, North & South) strongly working class in 'top 30 safest Labour seats', 90% vote left wing or extreme Left wing. Oxford East is 'furthest from national average' and 'most unrepresentative' in UK today. This radical switch from Oxford voters being moderate or right wing to very left wing has occurred in a mere 30 years, Oxford's prosperous middle class families leaving for better quality of life, their former houses converted into HMOs by thousands of new landlord investors

⭐Oxford 'BEDSIT LAND'- has 'MOST HMOs IN ALL UK' (3,500 legal HMOs w 25,000 bedsits and 1000 illegal HMOs w 7000 more bedsits, so 32000 bedsits in standing population of 120,000) housing 25% of residents. Even in most prosperous part within city walls, Walton Manor, sadly one is just 200-300m from a crime hotspot. Largest crime category is 'violence & sexual assault', virtually half of all crime

⭐In contrast here has just 25 HMOs w just 90 bedsit rooms👍in a 45000 population so <O.2% of population and much less crime. Yep, Oxford's great for working in, but not exactly relaxing or conducive to best quality of life

⭐Abingdon's population highly stable with only a 4% change each year; Oxford population is 'most transitory in UK' with 30% annual turnover (60,000 uni students and 5000 academics) arrive or leave. It is why estate agents are famously arrogant because of huge annual 'churn' turnover. Abingdon is in Top 5 fastest growing areas😏 past decade nationally; Oxford not in top 200

⚠️Oxford has beautifully maintained pristine colleges 😍 and world renowned glorious library❤️ I use, but these are walled off with high walls to keep public strictly outside. It's STRICTLY NO ADMITTANCE even if architecture and Cotswold stone are ravishingly beautiful 😍 to look at and take some photos in the first 5 minutes. But that's it. To 80% of city residents not affiliated w the uni it is as relevant and useful as seeing any walled private space or being on the moon ie of little benefit. 70% of Oxford residents never see behind the high walls and closed great doors, unless they accidentally 'stray' into the uni quarter and a closed door might open for seconds to show a pristine lawn

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

**** GENERAL INFO ****
"DREAMING SPIRES OF OXFORD"- Matthew Arnold wrote in 1862 enjoying spectacular view from Boars Hill (160m Oxford's high point) looking down 100m towards Oxford beneath. The glorious views still fully preserved today. The view hides all the built up areas extending many miles north and south and Cowley's estates and tower blocks. Yet OX1's Boars Hill is 3 miles outside Oxford city borders, the flood plain, a lovely 2 mile green belt buffer. Boars Hill and its views are easily walked or cycled from my home in 5 min.

⭐Abingdon North borders Oxford's most prestigious area OX1's Bagley Wood/Boars Hill. From my home its half a mile to Bagley Wood/Boars Hill.

Daily I enjoy a lovely choice of 2 very fast commutes into centre of Oxford : the idyllic rural road, Old Abingdon Rd thru Bagley Wood/Boars Hill, or the superfast A34 at 60mph. No traffic lights, no stops, no gridlock for 80% of my commute

Abingdon officially Oxfordshire's most prosperous urban area town 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 is UK's 'longest continually inhabited settlement,' building foundations 5000 years old, a tad older than younger sister Oxford's Saxon roots by mere 4000 years
😄. Royal Berkshire county town 700 years until 1868, w beautiful Wren designed County Hall built 350 yrs ago and "considered the country's grandest". Had UK's 3rd richest abbey owning all of Mayfair Soho in what is London's wealthiest area - until Cardinal Wolsey plundered its wealth to build Christ Church College and cathedral😂

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

⭐EXERCISE & RECREATION FACILITIES OUTSTANDING
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. 2 famous boarding schools Abingdon School and Radley College have extensive sports facilities available to everyone 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 walking/cycling🚴, beautiful Abbey Gardens💐, Abingdon lock🚤 . 3 min to idyllic Bagley Wood 650 acres ancient woods owned by Abingdon Abbey granted to St John's College, and Boar's Hill, w endless walks & cycle trails, cycle Thames Path into Oxford 25 min, 🏕️Cotswolds/Chiltern Hills for walking;

⭐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 'Thames Valley Police' area, worse even than Slough🦹, and even London's East End's worst borough). (Banbury, Didcot & Bicester also have much more crime per capita than ultra safe Abingdon!😃) In Oxford police sirens, car and and house alarms are always going off. In one of the most prosperous city areas, I seldom ever got a good night's sleep! The reason for the high security and high college walls is pretty obvious

⭐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 - 1) Walton St/Clarendon St, Jericho on 'Radcliffe Quarter' opposite Oxford University Press HQ; 2) outside Oxford's most iconic building Radcliffe Camera and Bodleian Old Library; and 3) Cowley/Iffley Rds by 2 marauding knife drugs gangs).

⭐ Abingdon has few social deprivation issues of Oxford, Banbury or former coal power station town Didcot (w 20, 12 & 6 'Multi Deprivation Areas', per official UK Govt poverty stats).

⭐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 number of top schools in Top 50 in UK.

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

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

🏠RENTAL FACTS🏠
OXFORD METRO AREA has highest rents in UK after London due to exceptional demand 'Science Vale' Tech Triangle (UK's version of Silicon Valley) and world famous university. Unfortunately this has been reality for past 50 yrs:-
1) latest govt statistics Aug 2025 say rents Oxford metro area increased 12% past year due to "exceptional demand";

2) UK Govt Housing Benefit website shows rents by postcode grouped into 220 'Broad Rental Market Areas' by housing type: 'single unfurnished room' up to '4 bedroom house'. This confirms Oxford-Abingdon 'Broad Rental Market Area' BRMA (a 15 mile radius of Oxford) had HIGHEST AVERAGE RENTS for single unfurnished rooms ie bedsits in UK outside London of £905pm 2 years ago. This average rent figure is despite the BRMA 'average' embracing many rural areas incl Carterton Witney Wantage Wallingford reducing 'average'.

UK govt then calculates for every area the BOTTOM 1% as Housing Benefit figure it may award anyone on benefits. Currently Housing Benefit is £600pm frozen past 3 years for a 'single unfurnished room'. Councils can award a further £150 discretionary top up payment, increasingly offered to offset last 3 years rent rises imposed by rapacious estate agents and landlords

3) Spareroom's own research- Oxford Abingdon 'has highest rents outside London', average Spareroomer 2 years ago paid £850 (rent only), 'over 72% paying more than budgeted';

4) Oxford Uni is famously an expensive uni to attend with costs 2nd only to London's Imperial, LSE & UCL largely due to rents. Oxford Uni website says all undergrads should budget paying £835-£990pm in college. It also provides 'subsidised' single rooms at £900-1050 for students who want better accommodation outside college than older small single bedroom w washbasin and communal showers for 9 months term time in most colleges. In vacation they're leased out to bulk buying tourism co's at much higher rates, to help minimise this 'subsidised rate' for undergrads and Masters students

URBAN FLIGHT- many new Oxford academics 'trial' living in Oxford for a year or two then prefer moving out to NAbingdon due to Oxford city's quality of life issues (traffic, pollution, noise multi deprivation poverty, high crime), which middle class Abingdon simply doesn't have. MASTERS/DPHIL students new to Oxford similarly also follow their academic peers, scientists and professionals to more prosperous safer greener NAbingdon when they realise reality of Oxford suburbia.


Finally ask yourself whether any estate agents/HMO landlords would ever live in the HMO bedsits they offer on Spareroom? The answer's pretty obvious, whereas I'm HAPPY, FEEL PRIVILEGED to share with an honoured guest😃!

Usually person invited to view joins as a guest. A good fit is with a person who appreciates a slightly higher standard and a few of the finer things in life who doesn't want their own small flat and bear significant upfront estate agents costs of £500-1000, utilities, maintenance, paying cleaners, gardeners etc and standard one year contracts almost all Oxford agents demand.

Any further questions, just ask. I'll try to answer quickly! 😃
Nicky x

PS Yes I appreciate I'm V LUCKY to live and work in famous Oxford and dynamic Science Vale and enjoy 'VERY BEST OF BOTH WORLDS' and can share my experience with new honoured guest😃

Also show same ad under ABINGDON as am 2 min and 500m up road from OX1's most prestigious Boars Hill and lovely Bagley Wood. The new congestion charge adds £1300 to most people who drive within or into Oxford City Council. The most to benefit will be those commuting to central Oxford via Abingdon Rd and Abingdon who escape the charge though the other roads drivers will pay the fee