An estatefor ideas.
Vision
Created for the businesses shaping tomorrow. Designed to endure for generations.
An estate for ideas.
The new country HQ. Where work and life stop competing.
Enstone Estate is being shaped as a destination where founders, designers, engineers, creatives, investors and global brands can come together to work, connect and grow, within a setting that feels closer to a contemporary country estate than a conventional commercial development.
A new chapter
Enstone Estate has a long history of enterprise and ingenuity. Originally established as an RAF airfield during the Second World War, the site evolved into a home for aviation, engineering and commercial businesses.
Today, an established community of businesses continues to operate across the estate, contributing to its distinctive character and working heritage.
The next chapter builds on these foundations. Through long-term investment and a new vision for the estate, Enstone is being reimagined as a destination for British innovation, bringing together existing businesses and a new generation of founders, makers and global companies, with the space and opportunity to grow.
Enstone Estate. In numbers.
Enstone is designed for companies shaping what comes next. The businesses that increasingly blur the line between engineering and creativity.
310acres
A significant country estate
692,174sq ft
Approved new workspace
133,000sq ft
Phase 1 workspace from incubator to global HQ
67minutes
To London Paddington, direct from Charlbury Station
18.5miles
To Oxford city centre by road
18minutes
To London Oxford Airport
Built for the makers.
Designed for companies shaping what comes next: advanced engineering, technology, AI, film, digital media and creative technology. Businesses that increasingly blur the line between engineering and creativity.
Talent no longer wants to choose between city energy and countryside quality of life.
The world's most ambitious companies are rethinking where innovation happens. Founders increasingly build businesses around flexibility, wellbeing, creativity and culture. Enstone Estate sits at the intersection of all four, offering something increasingly rare: space to think.
Enstone Estate is being reimagined as a new kind of destination for advanced engineering, technology and creative design-led businesses.
Development phases
- Phase 1
- Now underway
- Phase 1 workspace
- 133,000 sq ft (12,356 sq m) across six buildings
- Future phases
- Bespoke HQ buildings
- Stewardship
- One vision, long-term stewardship
The estate team
- Ownership
- Leven Holdings
- Architecture
- Spratley & Partners
- Landscape architecture
- Macgregor Smith
- Project management
- Clarity BC
- Leasing
- Savills
- Planning
- Edgars
- Consultancy
- PwC
- Engineering
- Inform Consulting Engineers
- Civil engineering
- Simpsons TWS
- Transport
- Calibro
- Cost consultancy
- Currie & Brown
- ESG
- Cundall
- Ecology
- Aurochs Ecology
- Legal
- Knights
- M&E engineering
- Inform CE
- Brand, marketing and communications
- Spacecraft Consulting
- Public affairs
- Devcomms
- Creative
- NextBigThing