‘set’ associated with Chipping Norton, just some useful shops and a tiny theatre with uncomfortable seats seemingly reclaimed from old London buses.Today, the area is weighed down by moneyed magnates who don’t care that the M40 was extended because they use a helicopter to travel to their sandblasted, electric-gated houses and barn conversions.
And if they think their local pub is a bit iffy, they buy it and chuck the proceeds of some minor dividend at it.Which, specifically, in the case of The Double Red Duke at Clanfield, means a rumoured £6.5 million refurb.Not that I wish to be sniffy about this.
I’m just saying that back in the 1970s, you’d be hard pushed to find someone who had spent six and a half grand on a pub in those parts.
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