As it is Ive just found 2 new photos from villages in the local area which are well worth visiting on a nice spring or summer day or lets face it, even now as long as you wrap up. So let's see shall we?

This is the lamb at Crawley near Witney - a good local pub which I think used to be used by bikers in the local area. Please comment if you know if this is still the case

Crawley has been important in the history of the area as Crawley Mill was used to harness the water of the River Windrush to use in the blanket industry so important to the Witney area. Uphill Farm was the first of the villages significant dwellings, built around the 17th Century. What i remember Crawley for is the bridge and sheep that dwell on the ridges above the village.

As you can see - the bridge is single track so a traffic light system is always in use
This is a particularly sunny day

What i have noticed is that when there are periods of heavy rainfall, this area tends to flood heavily so that the fields either side of the bridge are waterlogged. This part of the village is on the low windrush valley though there are some hills starting over the bridge and some nice footpaths

River Windrush at Crawley with typical Cotswold stone house and low hills behind