People look out for each other in Watlington “The M40 cutting is important to me. The first time I drove through it, my son Charles was 5 weeks old and weighed just 5 lb. It was like coming into a different world, with Oxfordshire laid out in front of you. We were moving to Chalgrove… Continue reading Gillian Cottle
Chrissie Bell
I love the Chiltern Hills and the woods “I was born on a farm in South Africa, and when I was 13, I went to boarding school in Bethlehem, 50 miles away from home. After school, I worked in a bank, got married, had two children, got divorced and life changed! I had a friend,… Continue reading Chrissie Bell
Ken Cook
The cows used to come up the High Street “I was born in Kingham, Oxfordshire, in 1924. My parents were Watlington people, and when I was four or five years old, we moved back here. It was a nice little town. It was very self contained – you could buy anything here. You could even… Continue reading Ken Cook
David “Ginger” Mustion
I know a lot of people “I was born in Wantage, and lived on a farm first of all, but there was a fire. It started in the barn and everything went. So we moved to Shirburn when I was three years old and I’ve been here ever since. I moved to Watlington in 2005.… Continue reading David “Ginger” Mustion
Jake Aspinall
It’s a very close knit community “My parents came to RAF Benson in 2001 and I was born in 2002 at the John Radcliffe Hospital. We lived on the base and I went to Ewelme Primary School. Then when I was nine, we moved to Watlington, and I started at the primary school here at… Continue reading Jake Aspinall
Sarah Fountain
There is such a nice community feel “I was born in High Wycombe in 1980 and grew up in Stokenchurch. I lived there until I moved to Watlington in 2014. At the time I was working in Wallingford as a business manager for a pharmaceutical research company and my partner Michael was living and working… Continue reading Sarah Fountain
Rosie Wotherspoon
Watlington is a very close community “My parents moved to Watlington in 1996, and I was born in the John Radcliffe Hospital in 2000. I went to Rainbow Nursery from the age of 7 months until I was three years old. I remember Petra and Kelly who used to look after me. One memory is… Continue reading Rosie Wotherspoon
