Garsington is a village and civil parish about 8 kilometres (5 mi) southeast of Oxford in Oxfordshire.

[5][6] It was the home of Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873–1938), doyenne of the Bloomsbury group of writers and artists who used to meet at the manor.

These included the philosopher Bertrand Russell, the writers Aldous Huxley, W. B. Yeats, Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence and the artists Mark Gertler, Eric Gill and Dora Carrington.

The oldest part of the parish church of Saint Mary includes the tower, built towards the end of the 12th century in the transitional[7] style between Norman[8] and Early English.

[4][7] St Mary's has Decorated Gothic north and south aisles, which were added in the 14th century and have four-bay arcades.

[7] Inside, next to the entrance door, is a memorial to Garsington's most illustrious inhabitant, Ottoline Morrell, by Eric Gill.

[11] Thomas Thwaites of Clerkenwell in London built the turret clock for the tower in 1796 at a cost of £172 4s 0d.

The village has an exceptionally rich network of footpaths and bridleways which are maintained by local volunteers.

In addition to the Bloomsbury Group and the Garsington Opera residents have included historians John Wheeler-Bennett, Raymond Dawson[23] and Russell Meiggs, writers Rider Haggard, Adrian Townsend,[24] Howard Marks and Janet Bolam,[25] surgeon Edgar Somerville,[26] medical scientists Paul Bolam,[27][28] John Hall[29][30] and Philip Cowen,[31][32] and mathematician Roger Heath-Brown.