The lovely village of Childrey in the Vale of White Horse.
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I hope you enjoy my photos. If you find them interesting why not visit some of the villages as they are well worth seeing? It would be good to know if you visit any of them as a result of seeing them on Oxfordshire villages. If you do I'd love to know, so please email me and let me know. If you come across any errors in the description perhaps you could tell me so I can put them right. Some of the photos do show some of the villages "warts and all" unfortunately as this is how they can be on a typical day - littered with parked cars and vans and with a plethora of road signs and a forest of telegraph poles. And once a week refuse bags, wheelie bins and recycling boxes can spoil the appearance even more! * Bing Maps (formerly Multimap) gives a choice of three views of the area - road map style, as an Ordance Survey map or as an aerial view. The Ordnance Survey map shows contours, footpaths, woodlands, etc. and can be particularly useful if you want to explore a village on foot as you can zoom in to a suitable scale, and the map can be printed direct from the website. The aerial view generally provides added interest and (depending on the scale you chose) shows place names and the names of roads. I must acknowledge the following reference sources for some of the information I have included: The Oxfordshire Village Book, published by Countryside Books and updated by the Oxfordshire Federation of Women's Institutes, Philip's County Guide Oxfordshire, Harry Knight's Upper Thames Valley Today, David Nash Ford's Royal Berkshire History - www.berkshirehistory.com, A Dictionary of English Place-Names published by the Oxford University Press, the free online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, the numerous village websites to which I've provided links and numerous other sources I've come across whilst idly Googling for information. Some of the information about churches has been obtained from leaflets or flyers published by the churches I have visited.
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Welcome
to my growing collection of photos of some of Oxfordshire's lovely
villages. Although the villages so far are mainly in the southern
half of the county I hope to be able to add more each year as
I visit other parts. As well as my photos I've included a little
information about each village, and a map from Bing* so you can
easily find each village.