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Lower Heyford is a village and civil parish beside the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire, about 6 mile (10 km) west of Bicester. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 492. The parish measures about east–west and about 2 mile (3 km) north–south. It is bounded by the River Cherwell to the west, Aves ditch to the east, and field boundaries to the north and south. In 1959 the parish covered an area of .

Aves ditch is pre Anglo Saxon. It may have been dug as a boundary ditch. It still forms the eastern boundary of the parish. Harborough Bank, an Anglo Saxon burial mound southwest of the village dates from the 6th century. The earliest known record of it is a document from AD 995 now included in the Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici, which records it as Hegford. An entry in the Book of Fees from 1242 records it as Heyford Magna. An opening high in the wall west of the south arcade suggests that the nave once had a west gallery. This has been removed, as has the rood and rood loft, but the 15th century wooden screen to the chancel survives. The building was twice restored in the 19th century: first in 1848 under the direction of Henry Jones Underwood, and then in 1867–68 directed by Charles Buckeridge. It is a Grade II* listed building. of Chacombe, Northamptonshire. W&J Taylor cast the fifth bell in 1825, presumably at their then foundry in Oxford.

In the latter part of the 17th century Lower Heyford had also a Quaker congregation. Lower Heyford had a Methodist congregation by 1804, which soon had a chapel in the village and eventually became part of the United Methodist Church. A new chapel was built in Mill Lane in 1906, was still used for worship in 1955 but is now a private house. The bridge is a Grade II* listed building and forms an important part of the view from the historic adjacent landscape garden of Rousham House. and is now a private house.

The Bell Inn is a late 17th or early 18th century building that has been a pub since at least 1819. Lower Heyford has a bowls club. In 2000 Lower Heyford Cricket Club was the champion of Oxfordshire Cricket Association League Division Four. The Heyfords Women's Institute serves both Lower and Upper Heyford.

Red Rose Travel bus route 25 serves Lower Heyford, linking the village with Bicester via Upper Heyford and Middleton Stoney. The bus stops are outside the Kingdom Hall at the east end of the village. Buses do not serve Lower Heyford railway station. Buses run from Mondays to Saturdays, mostly at hourly intervals. There is no late evening service, and no service on Sundays or bank holidays.