Lakeside Town Farm - Bed & Breakfast and Self Catering
A stunning, lakeside farmhouse B&B with a Self Catering Option, near Oxford and Thame. Awarded the special AA Red Diamonds for one of the top 10% B&Bs in the UK. You can find us between Oxford and London, just 2 miles from junction 6 on the M40. Lakeside Town Farm Guest House is a working farm, ideally situated by a lake, in beautiful rural Oxfordshire at the foot of the Chiltern Hills in an Designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. On the edge of a small village down a quiet lane, in a gorgeous 1.5 acre garden that featured on BBC2's Gardeners World. We welcome guests on business, pleasure or on honeymoon, and offer free broadband WIFI access.
The local towns are Thame, Chinnor, Princes Risborough, Stokenchurch, Watlington, 20 minutes from Oxford and 20 minutes from High Wycombe. We are only 30 minutes from Heathrow airport, North away from London. The village has an excellent pub within walking distance, serving delicious food.
So come and visit our little bit of paradise in our idyllic haven.
Walking for Happiness: Icknield Way
Our video of our walk in Hertfordshire (or is it Bucks?)
A scything course at Pishill near Henley
Scything is a very effective and environmentally-friendly way to manage grasslands, not to mention a great way to get some exercise! The Chilterns Conservation Board runs scything courses every summer - this video shows a one-day course at Pishill in the Stonor Valley near Henley. The courses are led by Nigel Adams, a very experienced trainer in a range of countryside skills ( If you are interested in taking part in a course please contact Neil Jackson at the Conservation Board via njackson@chilternsaonb.org
The Icknield Way: a journey
A century after the poet and writer Edward Thomas published his book on the Icknield Way, this short, quirky documentary traces the route of the ancient trackway and drover's road, setting out to encounter some of the people who live and work along it, and who are still inspired by it. Features the excavation of a Neolithic henge monument, and a haunting, original soundtrack.
Oxfordshire | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:00:29 1 History
00:00:58 2 Geography
00:01:27 2.1 Extreme points
00:01:56 2.2 Rivers
00:02:25 2.3 Green belt
00:02:55 3 Economy
00:03:24 4 Politics
00:03:53 5 Education
00:04:22 6 Buildings
00:04:51 7 Settlements in Oxfordshire
00:05:06 8 Emergency services
00:05:21 9 Settlements by population
00:05:35 10 Places of interest
00:05:50 11 See also
00:06:04 12 References and notes
00:06:19 13 Further reading
00:06:48 14 External links
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Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from Oxonium, the Latin name for Oxford) is a county in South East England. The ceremonial county borders Warwickshire to the north-west, Northamptonshire to the north-east, Buckinghamshire to the east, Berkshire to the south, Wiltshire to the south-west and Gloucestershire to the west.
The county has major education and tourist industries and is noted for the concentration of performance motorsport companies and facilities. Oxford University Press is the largest firm among a concentration of print and publishing firms; the University of Oxford is also linked to the concentration of local biotechnology companies.
As well as the city of Oxford, other centres of population are Banbury, Bicester, Kidlington and Chipping Norton to the north of Oxford; Carterton and Witney to the west; Thame and Chinnor to the east; and Abingdon-on-Thames, Wantage, Didcot, Wallingford and Henley-on-Thames to the south. The areas south of the Thames, the Vale of White Horse and parts of South Oxfordshire, are in the historic county of Berkshire, as is the highest point, the 261 metres (856 ft) White Horse Hill.Oxfordshire's county flower is the snake's-head fritillary.