{"id":56732,"date":"2017-06-02T22:29:28","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T15:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-dorchester-on-thames-a-little-utopia\/"},"modified":"2017-06-02T22:35:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T15:35:26","slug":"lets-move-to-dorchester-on-thames-a-little-utopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-dorchester-on-thames-a-little-utopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s move to\u2026 Dorchester-on-Thames: \u2018A little utopia\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThis Oxfordshire village, with wisteria-stewn cottages and water on three sides, is cute as a dormouseWhat\u2019s going for it? Dorchester-on-Thames is one of those English villages that get me all misty-eyed with patriotism, if only patriotism hadn\u2019t been hijacked by the Kippers. Thanks to an illustrious history some time in the seventh century when it was, briefly, capital of Mercia, it carries itself with a certain grandeur. Its parish church is an abbey, it has the confidence to hold its own annual English Music Festival and the high street is lined with portly town houses, 17th-century mansions and cottages strewn with wisteria that give it the air of a place considerably bigger. These days, though, the stagecoaches, modern life and hullabaloo that must once have coursed through the place bypass it on the A4074 en route for Oxford. It is thus preserved as a kingdom unto itself, water on three sides, including the magnificent Hurst Water Meadow (it\u2019s more Thames-on-Dorchester than Dorchester-on-Thames), a little utopia of untouched Englishness.The case against Its glory days are long past. Not\u00a0for lovers of fleshpots. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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