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The Buttercross and Town Hall

Witney

Known across the world for blanket making, especially in North America where the Witney Point Blanket was traded in exchange for furs, the town owes...

Asthall

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Asthall
Oxfordshire
OX18 4HW

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Asthall village in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds

For a small village, Asthall is rich in history: a former Roman settlement on Akeman Street, which linked Cirencester with St Albans; the village church, dating back to the 12th century, possibly earlier; and the Elizabethan manor house, home to the Mitford sisters - it was here that Nancy Mitford penned much of ‘Love in a Cold Climate’. She is buried in the churchyard at nearby Swinbrook.

There are two downloadable walks that pass through the village:
Villages of the Windrush Valley (pdf 163k)
Windrush Circular Walk 1 (pdf 182k)

There is also the Windrush Valley Cycle Route (pdf 1.64Mb), a waymarked 17 mile cycle route between Witney and Northleach

 

 

 

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