Bus travel
The following information is believed to be correct at the time of posting. Please check with the bus companies for the latest timetables and use a service such as Traveline to plan your journey.
PickMeUp
PickMeUp is an on-demand ride-sharing minibus service from the Oxford Bus Company.
Download the app and say where you want your journey to begin: the bus will pick you up from a 'virtual bus stop' within a short walkable distance of where you are.
The intelligent software works out the best way to take you and the other passengers to your chosen destinations.
Register your credit or debit card and the bus could be with you in around 10 minutes.
https://pickmeup.oxfordbus.co.uk
Bus companies
Park & Ride
If you need to travel by car, please consider using the Park & Ride service. The bus stops at the hospital a short distance from the main entrances.
Park & Ride services direct to the hospital and timetables - Monday to Friday only
Please see www.stagecoachbus.com/headington for more information.
- 700 Park & Ride
Monday to Friday 6.45am - 7.20pm
Kidlington Grovelands to JR, Noc and Churchill via Water Eaton Park & Ride and Summertown
Stagecoach
- 900 Park & Ride
Monday to Friday 6.45am - 7.30pm
Thornhill Park & Ride to NOC and Churchill via Windmill Rd
Stagecoach
Park & Ride buses that run on Sundays / Bank Holidays
Buses from Oxford City Centre
- city4 City Centre / Old Road (Churchill) / Wood Farm.
Get off in Old Road (entrance to Churchill Drive): the bus stop is a few metres past the entrance to the Churchill Hospital site, across the pedestrian crossing.
Oxford Bus Company
- For some locations in the Churchill Hospital it may be better to stay on the city4 for two more stops after Old Road and get off in Girdlestone Road; there is a pedestrian entrance to Churchill Drive via Massey Close.
city4 route map (pdf)
- 10 City Centre / Cowley Centre / Hollow Way / Slade / Wood Farm / Headington / JR.
Stagecoach
Buses that stop in Headington
There are many, frequent bus services from Oxford City Centre to Headington.
- Thornhill
400 to Headington Shops for a 15 - 20 minute walk on to the Churchill site
Oxford Bus Company
- 8 & 9 City Centre / Headington / Barton / Risinghurst
Oxford Bus Company / Stagecoach
- 280 Aylesbury / Thame / Wheatley / Headington / City Centre / Railway Station
Arriva
From bus stops in Old Road it is five minutes' walk to the hospital entrance.
- U1 Wheatley Campus / Wheatley / Headington (Old Road) / City Centre / Botley / Railway Station / Harcourt Hill Campus
Oxford Bus Company - also U1X term-time only
- U5 Marston / Headington (Old Road) / Cowley Road / City Centre
Oxford Bus Company