“Absolutely delightful stay, in a cosy and well- appointed cottage (with sharp kitchen knives!”
). Brewery and butcher in the village are really rather good; if one had a mind to, one could spend the entire week without leaving the village on a reading retreat. On the 'main' Hook Norton to Banbury road, where an occasional car or bus may trundle past, but not in the least bit intrusive.
45 minutes from the Oxford Park & Ride for the bookshops and the Ashmolean and far nicer than staying within the Blenheim area honeypot. Worth making the trip to Kelmscot (William Morris, near ...
). Brewery and butcher in the village are really rather good; if one had a mind to, one could spend the entire week without leaving the village on a reading retreat. On the 'main' Hook Norton to Banbury road, where an occasional car or bus may trundle past, but not in the least bit intrusive.
45 minutes from the Oxford Park & Ride for the bookshops and the Ashmolean and far nicer than staying within the Blenheim area honeypot. Worth making the trip to Kelmscot (William Morris, near Lechlade) and Snowshill (vast and eclectic collection of objects) near Broadway).
Glass recycling note; local authority websites are contradictory, but we eventually tracked down the glass bank - prominently situated behind an unmarked high wooden fence, within the entrance to the sports field, up an unsignposted cul-de-sac off The Bourne....