Wheatley is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England, about 5 miles (8 km) east of Oxford.

There was a Roman villa on Castle Hill, about 1 mile (1.6 km) southeast of the parish church.

In 1883 a Saxon cemetery was excavated, and artefacts removed from it are housed in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

[2] There is also a Russian bell from Troitsa,[clarification needed] thought to have been claimed as a spoil of war and given to the church early in the 20th century.

It has been rebuilt and re-equipped a number of times, including in 1763 after a fire and in 1784 when the Eagle Ironworks, Oxford supplied some of the machinery.

Stagecoaches between the Golden Cross in Oxford and London travelled via the Old Road over Shotover Plain to the west of the village.

Many of Wheatley's inns had an upper entrance in Church Road and another in the High Street to accommodate the change of horses.

The village lock-up, built in 1834, is a stone building in the shape of a hexagonal pyramid,[8] near the edge of the former quarry.

Shotover Park was the home of Lt Col Sir John Miller, who was Crown Equerry to Queen Elizabeth II.

In 1888 his grandmother gave the building called the Merry Bells to the villagers as a temperance hotel as she was saddened to see so much hardship caused by drunkenness.

[citation needed] In the 20th century the Lady Spencer Churchill teacher training college was built on the north side of Wheatley.

The extension includes Junction 8A and Oxford Services about 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) east of the village.

Wheatley gradually gained its independence from Cuddesdon, having its own chapel by 1427, appointing its own church wardens by the sixteenth century, and finally being made a separate parish in 1854.

[18] Wheatley has a post office, an Asda superstore with a petrol filling station, a Co-Op pharmacy, several shops in the High Street, and numerous village societies, including the Wheatley Society and a Village Produce Association which holds an annual show.

The Redline Buses route X20 links Wheatley to Aylesbury via Thame and Haddenham and to Oxford via Headington in the opposite direction.