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
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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
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
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
Mike Wiltshire
A marvellous place “I was born in 1940 and grew up in Lane End on the Stokenchurch to Marlow road. Cricket has always been my main game. As a kid, my idol was Dennis Compton. He not only played for Middlesex and England cricket teams, but he played for Arsenal Football Club as well! That… Continue reading Mike Wiltshire
Lindsay Howard-Dean
People are always prepared to help “My dad was an RSPCA inspector in London, and my parents went up the M40 looking for grazing for rescue animals. They ended up here in Christmas Common and rented some land from a very old Watlington family, the Englands. Eventually they bought the land and moved here permanently.… Continue reading Lindsay Howard-Dean
Karen Bradley
Watlington has that lovely warm feeling about it “I’m an Essex girl by heart but not by nature! That’s where I was brought up, in a village just outside of Saffron Walden, Essex. I lived there until my late teens, then moved to Newmarket and eventually left home at the ripe old age of… Continue reading Karen Bradley
