It is a satellite of the university's botanic garden in the city of Oxford, England.

The arboretum itself is located six miles (ten kilometres) south of Oxford on the A4074 road, near the village of Nuneham Courtenay in Oxfordshire,[1] and comprises some 150 acres (60 hectares).

[2] Professor Simon Hiscock is the Horti Praefectus (Director) of the botanic garden and arboretum.

[3] The arboretum forms an integral part of the tree and plant collection of the University of Oxford Botanic Garden.

William Sawrey Gilpin (1762–1843), the artist and later landscape designer, laid out the pinetum, which forms the core of the arboretum.