Guidebook for Ashendon

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Guidebook for Ashendon

Food Scene

This is our local - sadly, due to lack of staff, the kitchens have been closed and the bar is now only open on certain days (usually weekends).
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The Hundred of Ashendon
Lower End
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This is our local - sadly, due to lack of staff, the kitchens have been closed and the bar is now only open on certain days (usually weekends).
This pub on the edge of Brill common serves very good food. It is less intimate than The Hundred. A very good place for lunch as well as dinner.
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The Pheasant
39 Windmill St
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This pub on the edge of Brill common serves very good food. It is less intimate than The Hundred. A very good place for lunch as well as dinner.
Relaxed Italian dining - this is not a chain Italian, it's genuine, freshly cooked by Italians food - really lovely place for lunch. Usually you can get a table but if you want to book the number is: 01869 247721
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Amici
20 Sheep St
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Relaxed Italian dining - this is not a chain Italian, it's genuine, freshly cooked by Italians food - really lovely place for lunch. Usually you can get a table but if you want to book the number is: 01869 247721
Cafe 94 Waddesdon is a friendly cafe with great coffee, cakes and some nice unusual treats (I love their granola with yoghurt and coulis) - if you are visiting Waddesdon manor take a walk out of the entrance gates (the gold ones you enter the estate through) and go here rather than spending more inside!
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High Street
Cafe 94 Waddesdon is a friendly cafe with great coffee, cakes and some nice unusual treats (I love their granola with yoghurt and coulis) - if you are visiting Waddesdon manor take a walk out of the entrance gates (the gold ones you enter the estate through) and go here rather than spending more inside!
Nice pub food and they do take away pizza too.
The Eight Bells
51 High St
Nice pub food and they do take away pizza too.
The most authentic village pub locally serving good pub grub. We often walk there and back for lunch - about 21/2 miles over the fields.
The Bell
The Green
The most authentic village pub locally serving good pub grub. We often walk there and back for lunch - about 21/2 miles over the fields.
The closest Fish and Chips takeaway.
Mermaid Fish Bar
5 The Square
The closest Fish and Chips takeaway.
Our Indian Restaurant and Take Away of choice - they will deliver to Upper Pollicott. 01844 292934
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House Of Spice
19 Ft End
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Our Indian Restaurant and Take Away of choice - they will deliver to Upper Pollicott. 01844 292934
The liveliest place to go locally for drinks and good food. Definately book: 01844 214340 - Thame has many good pubs and coffee stops.
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The Thatch
29-30 High St
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The liveliest place to go locally for drinks and good food. Definately book: 01844 214340 - Thame has many good pubs and coffee stops.
Close by and open on Mondays. They have a wide menu and usually easy to get a table.
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The Akeman Inn
Kingswood Lane
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Close by and open on Mondays. They have a wide menu and usually easy to get a table.
This is not a run of the mill kebab van, this is an experience! Award winning, very clean, friendly, great food (Falafal wrap is my choice, always!) https://www.facebook.com/Atalayskebabsthame/
Atalay's Kebabs
North Street
This is not a run of the mill kebab van, this is an experience! Award winning, very clean, friendly, great food (Falafal wrap is my choice, always!) https://www.facebook.com/Atalayskebabsthame/

Shopping

Designer Outlet Centre. With over 130 luxury fashion & homeware outlet boutiques. You can park and eat on site too. Weekends are busy. Please take a wander into Bicester Town too - there are some nice places to shop and eat there in more relaxed environment. (See mention of the Amici and Coles Bookshop for example.)
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Bicester Village station
Station Approach
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Designer Outlet Centre. With over 130 luxury fashion & homeware outlet boutiques. You can park and eat on site too. Weekends are busy. Please take a wander into Bicester Town too - there are some nice places to shop and eat there in more relaxed environment. (See mention of the Amici and Coles Bookshop for example.)
There are not many independent book shops left - this is a lovely shop where you can browse and enjoy book shopping as it should be. Best sellers to local interest. I love Coles.
Cole's Books
22 Crown Walk
There are not many independent book shops left - this is a lovely shop where you can browse and enjoy book shopping as it should be. Best sellers to local interest. I love Coles.

Essentials

A traditional village shop with a post office - you don't have to stand in the queue, the owner will sort your postings out while you browse the little shop.
Cuddington Post Office
Upper Church Street
A traditional village shop with a post office - you don't have to stand in the queue, the owner will sort your postings out while you browse the little shop.
The best village shop in the immediate area, they have a bigger range here than Cuddington and Chearsley stores though all three are friendly and offer the basics.
Brill Stores
1 Temple Street
The best village shop in the immediate area, they have a bigger range here than Cuddington and Chearsley stores though all three are friendly and offer the basics.

Entertainment & Activities

A really good day out and chance to ride on a steam train - check out for steaming days: 01296 655720
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Centro Ferroviário de Buckinghamshire
Station Road
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A really good day out and chance to ride on a steam train - check out for steaming days: 01296 655720
A sustainably run farm with plenty of space to explore. The farm has paddocks for rare breed farm animals, an Animal Barn and Pets’ Corner. There is also a nature trail around the outskirts of the farm, a children's play area and two barns, including soft play. The (separate) Eco Centre restaurant is supplied by local producers and from the walled garden and orchard, where heritage fruit and vegetables are grown.
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Green Dragon Rare Breeds Farm & Eco Centre
Claydon Road
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A sustainably run farm with plenty of space to explore. The farm has paddocks for rare breed farm animals, an Animal Barn and Pets’ Corner. There is also a nature trail around the outskirts of the farm, a children's play area and two barns, including soft play. The (separate) Eco Centre restaurant is supplied by local producers and from the walled garden and orchard, where heritage fruit and vegetables are grown.
Bletchley Park, once the top-secret home of the World War Two Codebreakers, is now a museum and vibrant heritage attraction open daily, managed by the Bletchley Park Trust. After the war, Bletchley Park became home to a variety of training schools: for teachers, Post Office workers, air traffic control system engineers, and members of GCHQ. In 1987, after a fifty-year association with British Intelligence, Bletchley Park was finally closed. There were moves to demolish the whole site in favour of housing development and a supermarket. In 1991 the Bletchley Archaeological and Historical Society formed a small committee with the aim of saving Bletchley Park in tribute to the remarkable people whose collective intellects changed the course of WW2, and so that the story could be kept alive for the education and enjoyment of future generations. In 1992, the committee persuaded Milton Keynes Council to declare most of Bletchley Park a conservation area. The Bletchley Park Trust was formed and in 1994 its Patron, HRH The Duke of Kent KG, opened the site to the public, as a museum. In June 1999 the Trust was awarded a 250-year leasehold of the core historic areas of the Park, and this was followed in 2009 by a successful bid for support from the Heritage Lottery Fund. Bletchley Park is now a self-funding historic visitor attraction with over 250,000 visitors per year, and additional buildings continue to be restored and opened to the public. Bletchley Park is open daily. Come and explore this extraordinary place and discover the amazing stories of the World War Two Codebreakers.
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Mansão de Bletchley Park
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Bletchley Park, once the top-secret home of the World War Two Codebreakers, is now a museum and vibrant heritage attraction open daily, managed by the Bletchley Park Trust. After the war, Bletchley Park became home to a variety of training schools: for teachers, Post Office workers, air traffic control system engineers, and members of GCHQ. In 1987, after a fifty-year association with British Intelligence, Bletchley Park was finally closed. There were moves to demolish the whole site in favour of housing development and a supermarket. In 1991 the Bletchley Archaeological and Historical Society formed a small committee with the aim of saving Bletchley Park in tribute to the remarkable people whose collective intellects changed the course of WW2, and so that the story could be kept alive for the education and enjoyment of future generations. In 1992, the committee persuaded Milton Keynes Council to declare most of Bletchley Park a conservation area. The Bletchley Park Trust was formed and in 1994 its Patron, HRH The Duke of Kent KG, opened the site to the public, as a museum. In June 1999 the Trust was awarded a 250-year leasehold of the core historic areas of the Park, and this was followed in 2009 by a successful bid for support from the Heritage Lottery Fund. Bletchley Park is now a self-funding historic visitor attraction with over 250,000 visitors per year, and additional buildings continue to be restored and opened to the public. Bletchley Park is open daily. Come and explore this extraordinary place and discover the amazing stories of the World War Two Codebreakers.

Sightseeing

National Trust owned Rothschild manor - loads of history, lots to do. Quite commercial now - you park, catch a bus up to the manor etc. but a good day out and they often have special events. You can walk to Waddesdon from Pollicott over the fields it is about 4 miles each way.
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Manor de Waddesdon
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National Trust owned Rothschild manor - loads of history, lots to do. Quite commercial now - you park, catch a bus up to the manor etc. but a good day out and they often have special events. You can walk to Waddesdon from Pollicott over the fields it is about 4 miles each way.
A smaller National Trust property - home of the Verney family with connections to Florence Nightingale. A less commercial experience than Waddesdon Manor. Has a nice coffee shop and restaurant.
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Claydon House
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A smaller National Trust property - home of the Verney family with connections to Florence Nightingale. A less commercial experience than Waddesdon Manor. Has a nice coffee shop and restaurant.

Getting Around

Trains to and from London and Birmingham - there is parking at the station.
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Haddenham & Thame Parkway station
Thame Road
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Trains to and from London and Birmingham - there is parking at the station.
Free parking, from here you can get bus into Oxford - buses run quite late into the night so no real worries about missing the last bus home.
Bicester Park & Ride
Vendee Drive
Free parking, from here you can get bus into Oxford - buses run quite late into the night so no real worries about missing the last bus home.
For London, if you are on a budget drive to Hillingdon via M40 and get a one day 1-6 travelcard which gives you unlimited travel on London Transport Underground, Overground and Buses (and I think you get a discount on the River Buses too).
Hillingdon Station
Long Lane
For London, if you are on a budget drive to Hillingdon via M40 and get a one day 1-6 travelcard which gives you unlimited travel on London Transport Underground, Overground and Buses (and I think you get a discount on the River Buses too).

Parks & Nature

Made famous by Beatrix Havergal who established her School of Horticulture for Ladies here from 1932 to 1971, it's now home to 8 acres of beautifully landscaped ornamental gardens, a quality plant centre and garden shop, gallery and gift shop, museum and tea shop.
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Jardins de Waterperry
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Made famous by Beatrix Havergal who established her School of Horticulture for Ladies here from 1932 to 1971, it's now home to 8 acres of beautifully landscaped ornamental gardens, a quality plant centre and garden shop, gallery and gift shop, museum and tea shop.