places to eat & drink
Coffee, breakfast, street food, team lunches and somewhere to meet after work.
A connected campus with room to think, move, meet and recharge.
Life at Harwell
Harwell has been designed to make sure everything you need is on campus.
Coffee, breakfast, street food, team lunches and somewhere to meet after work.
including Pavilion, full size cricket, rugby and football pitches
to get to, from and around campus
Make the most of Harwell
Whether you work here every day or are visiting for the first time, find the food, facilities, activities and information you need.
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Get here & around
Plan your journey, move around campus and find the travel option that works for you.
Bus travel
Harwell Campus employees receive 25% off selected South Oxfordshire Zone tickets through the key or the Oxford Bus app, including multi-trip, weekly and annual options.
View bus information
Rail connections
Didcot Parkway rail station is only 5 miles away, with direct services to Central London (Paddington) in under 45 minutes and Oxford City Centre in under 15 minutes. Frequent bus services, taxi’s and bike hire are available to onward travel to campus.
Plan your journey
Cycling
Available to use to and from campus for free, simply locate a bike via the Donkey Republic app and you’re good to go.
Explore cycling
Lift share
Find a convenient, cost-effective way to travel by matching your commute with other Harwellians.
Find out more
Travel Hub
Live journey information, secure cycle storage, showers, bike maintenance and onward travel.
Request access
future of travel
Travel around Harwell for free on our zero-emissions autonomous shuttle, running two weekday routes across campus via the ESA building.
Track DarwinEvents for everyone
We host more events than any other science campus in the UK.
Harwell has a packed calendar of educational sessions, networking events and science-focused partnering opportunities, alongside team-building activities such as our famous annual Cup Challenge. Whatever your interests, there’s always something happening at Harwell.
18th Nov
9:00 – 17:00 | Hamilton Room, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Visitors Centre, Harwell Campus
A 2-day training course covering Python scripting in Avizo (1 day) and…
22nd Sep
10:00 – 16:00 | Quad Two, Rutherford Avenue, OX11 0DF
Building the future of operations on Earth and beyond. We are delighted to…
25th Oct
11:00 – 17:00 | ARC Oxford, OX4 2SU
The Festival returns to Oxford’s knowledge quarter in Cowley – ARC…
19th Nov
9:30 – 10:00 | Online
Engineering Your Future is a careers-focussed event to help students in Years 12…
Wellbeing & nature
Walk, run or cycle through landscaped areas, rewilding zones and out towards the Ridgeway.