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Small cafe serving drinks, cakes, pastries and snacks. Seating indoors and outdoors. Toilet. Check opening times and menu on Instagram @chapel_andco Also a selection of gifts.

Both John Steinbeck & Jimmy Dean would be impressed!

Very good coffee and warm sausage rolls

Great to walk around looks very impressive

A very nice stretch of road to ride your push bike on. Whether you're doing efforts, or just riding for the scenery, it's nice and quiet.

Friendly staff. Cracking selection for a cyclist on a long ride on the A5.

"A tranquil Tudor manor house set in rare terraced gardens, with the 'antient' Dryden family at its heart Built by the Drydens using the remains of a medieval priory, the house and gardens have survived largely unaltered since 1710 and are presented as they were during the Victorian era. The warm, welcoming house features grand rooms, stunning tapestries and Jacobean plasterwork, contrasting with the domestic detail of the servants' quarters. Stroll in the historic parkland and catch glimpses of early medieval landscapes, while a wander through the priory church reveals the story of the canons of Canons Ashby." Cit. https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/canons-ashby#Overview

"The square W tower of Wicken church was erected by Robert, Lord Spencer in 1617, but the remainder of the medieval building was taken down in 1753, after it was found to be unsafe. The cost of rebuilding was met by Thomas Prowse, described as the designer of the church on a tablet in the N aisle. It was completed by 1770, and comprises a nave with aisles of equal height, N and S transepts and a square chancel. The church was restored in 1838, and again by Matthew Holding in 1896-97. In the latter restoration the chancel was lengthened to the E, the S transept was added, and a boiler-room built at the W end of the N aisle. The 12thc. font may be the sole relic of an earlier structure on the site." Cit. https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=8140

excellent coffee stop

An interesting collection of tanks for hire!

The give way lines are nearly none existent, so be careful of cars coming from the left unknowingly and not giving way

Some excellent roads to cycle in either direction.

Gorgeous spot, take some change for the parking meter, if driving. If cycling be careful of the path at the rear of the park, excess water runs down of the hills and can get extremely muddy.

A beuatiful climb through the village starts to get uphill by the pub and steepens at the end by the lovely historic church - get to the top and turn left at the crossroads to visit the country park or ride back down to try the Yew Tree Pub.

Watch the grid at the bottom of the hill, can be busy with visitors in cars and also may have sheep! At the top get clear of the junction as it can be busy.

Of all the buildings in Culworth the Church is by far the oldest.  Standing in the middle of the village for nearly 1000 years we all have a duty as villagers to maintain and preserve it for future generations, in the same way people from Culworth have always done.

The Danvers family held the manor of Culworth from 1643, when Samuel Danvers (1611–1683) was created a baronet. The Danvers Baronetcy became extinct with the death of Sir Michael Danvers, 5th Baronet, in 1776. Marble monuments to the Danvers family inside the church of St. Mary the Virgin were erected in 1790. The school dates back to 1789 when Merial D’Anvers, the spinster daughter of a local prominent land-owning family, commissioned the building of the original school house which is still in use today. Culworth Forge on the Green operated for over 500 years before closing a few years ago, to be replaced by Forge2, a gallery exhibiting the work of local artists.

Cropredy Wharf Narrows is a minor waterways place on the Oxford Canal (Southern Section - Main Line) betweenCropredy Wharf Bridge No 153 (Cropredy) (¼ furlongs to the southwest) and Old Engine House Arm Junction (14 miles and 4¾ furlongs and 11 locks to the north).

Claydon, meaning clayey hill, is the most northerly parish in Oxfordshire. The small ironstone church stands at its highest point and consists of a chancel, nave, north aisle and north chapel, and a low west tower with a saddleback roof. There are some lovely Romanesque features, such as the south nave doorway, much restored, and the nave and north aisle, separated by an arcade of three bays.

By the end of the 11th century Thorpe Mandeville had a parish church, which was included in the early endowments to a Cluniac priory of the Abbey of La Charité-sur-Loire that had been founded at Preston Capes in 1090 and moved to Daventry shortly thereafter. The present Church of England parish church of Saint John the Baptist, built of local ironstone, dates largely from the early part of the 14th century. The north aisle has Decorated Gothic windows and an arcadeof three bays. The chancel has windows dating from about 1300, the middle of the Decorated Gothic period. The chancel was restored in 1872 under the direction of the architect Albert Hartshorne. High on the east wall of the west tower is a small stone relief of a man under a hood mould. On the north wall of the north aisle is a 14th-century painting of Saint Christopher carrying Jesus. On the west wall of the north aisle is a monument to Sir Thomas Kirton (died 1601) and his wife Margaret (died 1597). The church is a Grade I listed building. The tower has a saddleback roof and three bells. Henry I Bagley of Chacombe cast the second bell in 1636. John Briant of Hertford cast the treble bell in 1790. Robert Taylor, who had foundries at Oxford and St Neots, cast the tenor bell in 1826. The parish is now part of the benefice of Culworthwith Sulgrave and Thorpe Mandeville and Chipping Warden with Edgcote and Moreton Pinkney.