The Knowhere Guide

Best and Worst in Chinnor, Oxfordshire*

Chinnor, Oxfordshire Triumphs and Tragedies

Favourite Building

• St Andrew's Church. The Surgery in Station Road actually won some architecture prize I believe, and is quite funky for 1960s design. I also like The Bird in Hand, Cromwell Cottage and Chairmakers in the High Street, and "Miss Neighbour's old house" but don't ask me what it's called.
• Cement Works - An ugly hole to any new residents or passers by. But you can see it from 20 miles away and as far as I'm concerned it's our 'eiffel tower' and it's been there longer than I have.

Demolish It Now Building

• The Bird in Hand, because it is an eye sore now it has been boarded up and it degrades the village.
• The horrid housing estate they built on the spinney (off Springfield Gardens), and the rifle club, even if my dad did help build it. It's ugly.
• The cement works
• Most people would say 'see above'. However it should be the social club - small town personified.

The Best Things

• therez nothing there
• The people
• It's a lovely place to grow up - we used to be able to go off into the hills all day with no one worrying about us because it was so safe. You get to know the countryside well, there are lots of long walks and things to see, if you like the outdoors. You don't even get wet when it rains if you're in the woods, and the views are wonderful.
• My mates - none of us live there anymore (I wonder why)

The Worst Things

• everyting
• The other people
• Once you hit the age where walking around the outskirts of the village for a bet gets boring, there's bugger all to do. Cycling to Thame is a pain (10 mins going - downhill, 60 coming back.... or is that my memory?) Nowhere to buy clothes, records, see films, swim if you're over 11 (the primary school not believing that you're only 10...), go to school except by bus, get a job unless you're supremely lucky... learning to drive is the way out.
• It's not London!!

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Last updated: 2008-02-25