Ardley is a village in Ardley with Fewcott civil parish in Oxfordshire, England, about 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Bicester. The parish includes The Village of Fewcott that is now contiguous with Ardley.
The limestone quarry at Ardley has yielded a significant find of dinosaur tracks, discovered in 1997 and thought to have been left by Megalosaurus and possibly Cetiosaurus. There is a site of special scientific interest in the village with a colony of the great crested newts and an outcrop of Jurassic limestone.
Ardley Castle is a motte-and-bailey which is believed to have been built early in the 12th century during the civil war between Empress Matilda and King Stephen. The Church of England parish church of Saint Mary dates from at least 1074. The original church was demolished and completely rebuilt, but both the chancel and the bell tower of the present building contain small amounts of re-used Norman stonework. The present Early English Gothic chancel was built late in the 12th or early in the 13th century. The tower, which has a saddleback roof, and may have been built in the 13th or 14th century. The present nave was built in 1792.

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