Claydon in rural Oxfordshire - August 2021

Claydon

My wife booked a cottage for a family Christmas in 2020 but lockdown put pay to that! Having rescheduled it to August 2021 we finally made it. The cottage is located in the village of Claydon about 6 miles north of Banbury in Oxfordshire. The village is the northernmost settlement in Oxfordshire with a population of c300.

We were preoccupied for most of the time with our grandchildren so I didn’t make as many photographs as I’d hoped. By and large the weather was fairly good although we did have a terrific storm one evening that flooded part of the ground floor of the cottage! The owners sorted this out pretty quickly and it didn’t spoil the break. The only downside is that there was no village shop or arguably more importantly a pub! Perhaps even more bizarrely you cannot put glass in the recycling bin! You have to take these to the bottle bank in Cropredy a couple of miles away!

Clattercote Reservoir is only a short drive from the cottage which is well provided for carp fishing with a boardwalk that circumvents the entire reservoir.

The photographs here were made on my Sony A6500 coupled with the 16-70 f4 and my now ageing iPhone 6S+.

Clattercote Reservoir

On the edge of Claydon looking across the field towards the canal.

The road from Claydon to Cropredy.