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    A very English home run

    May 05, 2021 3 minutes

    CHIPPING NORTON comes with preconceptions. This town in Oxfordshire is synonymous with a particular kind of Cotswolds lifestyle: it has an old tweed mill, a princely little theatre and a semi-mythical ‘set’ that includes everyone from Jeremy Clarkson and the Camerons to Blur’s Alex James. None of whom live in the town itself, but that’s beside the point. Chippy holds cachet.

    It also holds surprises, one of which is more Uncle Sam than SamCam.

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