I confess I didn't look at the site before passing on the link, and not knowing Banbury I wouldn't know how to evaluate it anyway. But there's certainly more than 3 or 4 places to stay in Banbury.
I did go on and check the companion site for Oxford city, since I'll be visiting there soon, and found that while it listed a fair number of B&Bs, they were only a tiny selection of what I know exist. I'm afraid that kind of selectivity is very common in websites. I'd either check a book listing accommodations, or contact the British Tourist Agency (which doesn't seem to have a website, but when jaunting around the UK I find booking ahead through their offices is a great way to travel - they have complete lists of accommodations in various categories and for a small fee will phone the next town you're going to and find you a place to stay. However, Cropredy is likely to fill Banbury up, so it's better to plan now).
Anyway, since the Banbury site bombed I have three suggestions: 1) Contact the Festival and ask if they have better info on Banbury accommodations. I know they've distributed lists to attendees in past years. 2) How good mapquest.co.uk is I don't know, but my favorite UK map site is this one. Plug in a postal code and it will tell you exactly where it is. (UK full 6-place postal codes are equivalent to US Zip+4 codes.) 3) Get some other accommodation guide, probably one offline.
The Banbury train station (is that where the bus to Cropredy leaves from) is across the river from the town center, and can be a bit of a walk depending on where you're coming from. I recall that it has parking, but how full it'd be during the Festival I have no idea.
I can recommend a nice refurbished coaching inn in the area that I discovered on the Best Western website, but it's about 15 miles down the M40, which may be farther than you want to travel.
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I did go on and check the companion site for Oxford city, since I'll be visiting there soon, and found that while it listed a fair number of B&Bs, they were only a tiny selection of what I know exist. I'm afraid that kind of selectivity is very common in websites. I'd either check a book listing accommodations, or contact the British Tourist Agency (which doesn't seem to have a website, but when jaunting around the UK I find booking ahead through their offices is a great way to travel - they have complete lists of accommodations in various categories and for a small fee will phone the next town you're going to and find you a place to stay. However, Cropredy is likely to fill Banbury up, so it's better to plan now).
Anyway, since the Banbury site bombed I have three suggestions:
1) Contact the Festival and ask if they have better info on Banbury accommodations. I know they've distributed lists to attendees in past years.
2) How good mapquest.co.uk is I don't know, but my favorite UK map site is this one. Plug in a postal code and it will tell you exactly where it is. (UK full 6-place postal codes are equivalent to US Zip+4 codes.)
3) Get some other accommodation guide, probably one offline.
The Banbury train station (is that where the bus to Cropredy leaves from) is across the river from the town center, and can be a bit of a walk depending on where you're coming from. I recall that it has parking, but how full it'd be during the Festival I have no idea.
I can recommend a nice refurbished coaching inn in the area that I discovered on the Best Western website, but it's about 15 miles down the M40, which may be farther than you want to travel.