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Cropredy

Description: A village on the River Cherwell just north of Banbury in Oxfordshire, England.

Newest Review: ... what I am talking about when I mention the annual influx of visitors. Each year, Cropredy plays host to Fairport Conventions annual...well....convention. This is a fabulous folk festival over a weekend in August. There are many, many things that make this different from other festivals - there is only one stage, for a start, the age range tends to be older, it's folk...but what makes this ... more

... festival unique is that the village positively welcomes the up-to-30,000 visitors the village plays host to. The boy scouts are on litter duty. Local lads sell programmes. The pubs open for breakfast. The cricket club opens for showers. The residents mind ...more

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And the willows weep into Cropredy's waters clear (487 words)
by - written on 22/06/09 (Very useful, 87 readings)
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Cropredy is a beautiful, tiny village near Banbury on the banks of the Cherwell. It is an old village, dating from before the English civil war, and it looks it (in the quaint, lovely way, rather than the rundown way!) It has a thriving community, including a school, a church, pubs, a doctor's surgery, general store and other small business appropriate to an English village and a rather spiffing website (http://www.cropredyvillage.info/index.htm). The website will tell you all about the history of the village (including the civil war battle, fought here in 1644 and its mention in the Domesday Book), the age of the properties (from really quite old to not really very old ... Read the complete review