The Oxford Bus Museum is next to Hanborough station. From Hanborough the line enters the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and beyond Hanborough is station. Building the line through Combe was difficult with several deep cuttings, four crossings of the Evenlode, and the diversion of a length of the river. To the south, just after the third river crossing are the remains of North Leigh Roman Villa. About beyond the villa the line crosses the course of Akeman Street Roman road. The Oxfordshire Way long-distance footpath follows Akeman Street from the north east to a point about north of the railway before turning to run through Stonesfield and meet the line at Charlbury station. The next station is . Between Finstock and Charlbury the deer park to the west of the line is Cornbury Park, original venue for the Cornbury Music Festival, which has now been replaced by the Wilderness Festival. The woodlands south west of the park are the remains of Wychwood Forest named after the Hwicce, one of the Anglo-Saxon peoples of Britain. Charlbury station is the start of the redoubled track and is first stop for faster trains over the line and retains its original Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway clapperboard building. Sir Peter Parker lived nearby at Minster Lovell and was a regular user of Charlbury station while chairman of the British Railways Board (1976 to 1983). The patronage of the head of the organisation may have helped to save the line at a time when the Serpell Report was calling for more rail closures. This is section of track has a maximum speed of Charlbury to Moreton-in-Marsh The line is now heading south-west and the site of Ascot d'Oilly Castle is to the north-west as the train enters Ascott-under-Wychwood. Few trains call at station, but there is a signal box controlling the level crossing and the points that were formerly the end of the single track section from Wolvercot Junction. beyond Ascott is station which serves the villages of Shipton-under-Wychwood, Milton-under-Wychwood and Fifield. Still following the Evenlode, the line now turns north-west. There is another level crossing near Bruern Abbey. The next junction on the line was at from where the Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway went west to Cheltenham via and east to near . Kingham village is north of the station. The village west of the station is Bledington. The Oxfordshire Way