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It's certainly English, but if you want quaint, this area is Quaint Central - pretty much everywhere apart from Kidlington. Here's Benmead Road in Kidlington,
by Doctor_Fegg 10y ago
It's certainly English, but if you want quaint, this area is Quaint Central - pretty much everywhere apart from Kidlington.
Here's Benmead Road in Kidlington, one of the places the tourists are reputed to be turning up: https://goo.gl/maps/urEVsQEmRqx https://goo.gl/maps/urEVsQEmRqx
Here's historic Woodstock, which is just three or four miles away: https://goo.gl/maps/M2M9dzXv2e32 https://goo.gl/maps/M2M9dzXv2e32
Here's Charlbury, another five miles away, where I live: https://goo.gl/maps/EDgNtFERyLD2 https://goo.gl/maps/EDgNtFERyLD2
And literally 1.5mi from Kidlington, here's Thrupp, with its amazingly quaint canal and pubs: https://goo.gl/maps/Su1Y5uxAGB22 https://goo.gl/maps/Su1Y5uxAGB22
My only guess so far is that there's some slack in a tour schedule, and some jaded tour planner said "take them to a village, any village will do".
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- beachstartup 10y agobeyond a certain threshold, it's all the same to a tourist. what i see in your pictures: stone houses, thatched roofs (or whatever the modern equivalent is), cobblestone streets, roundabouts, little shops and pubs, old churches, gardens and trees, and of course english people milling about... pretty much exactly what pops into your head when you think 'english village'. looks like kidlington meets the criteria just fine: https://www.google.com/maps/@51.8177024,-1.2723015,3a,75y,2.4h,80.81t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1suqBvJjh_fyM9SygZNudHpw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 https://www.google.com/maps/@51.8177024,-1.2723015,3a,75y,2.... this area would be very appealing to someone looking for a slice of english suburbia.
- xrange 10y agoAll of the brickwork in your first link reminds me of Detroit: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Detroit,+MI,+USA/@42.4280036,-83.2062379,3a,75y,11.98h,87.8t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sGXYcCRvlck1wWeKT289dUw!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DGXYcCRvlck1wWeKT289dUw%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D277.5%26pitch%3D-7!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x8824ca0110cb1d75:0x5776864e35b9c4d2!8m2!3d42.331427!4d-83.0457538!6m1!1e1 https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Detroit,+MI,+USA/@42.428...
- teamonkey 10y agoNone of them have the big Sainsbury's though, which is pretty much the only reason I've ever visited Kidlington.