Great British Road Journeys - Oxfordshire - Thame to Wantage Ep. 31

Interesting video as you certainly went past the village were I live Benson which has a great history :) Wallingford also where William 1st went over that bridge on his way to London to be crowned in 1066 :)

I’ll admit that, until today, all I knew about Chinnor was its vintage railway because of announcements that played at Princes Risbourough train station (the other end of the vintage railway) whenever I waited there for a rail transfer from the Aylesbury line to the main line.

Great . As ever 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Actually external "bolt-on" tower stairs are not uncommon. As a visitor bellringer one often looked for them.

Great video,

Also, Adam Clayton was born in Chinnor.

Very impressed by how close you got a drone to the Diamond Synchrotron building without being bundled into the back of a van by a group of black-clad security forces. People have had teams descend on them them just walking through the nearby fields 😳😬😆

Your church spire man clearly lived in the sewage works -- they line up perfectly.

That last scene made me spit out my drink!

Yet another cracking video.

Best one yet - bravo, fella. X

I did enjoy this, as i live in wantage and know the area, but I'm not happy about being vaporised 😂

Love the fast show clip👌

Alfred the great… my great, great,great… fuck it, a couple of hands worth of fingers and feet worth of toes, and the a few more ago grandad. Almost as many greats and thumbs up as this video gets from me!

I've lived in Thame or around it for over 30 yrs, the bridge is also the site of an accident where an arms truck crashed into the river. There are still bullets and grenades found by magnet fisher's to this day. Lovely too watch. Xx

know the road & area
Great vid

Interesting to see the old map of Didcot. Around the Easton’s Plantation was the site of the Didcot A coal fired power station, along with the newer Didcot B gas fired one. Didcot A was visible from a long way. In the early 2000s I remember going to a public open day in the old one.

Thanks again John 👋

That item at 10.53 is what the Vikings pooped when they met Alfred before they shot off.

I like your work, please keep it it up as it's educational, informative and interesting. I've been to many places you did as my yearly driven distance is close to 100.000 miles and it's a 4th year I am working as a driver. Looking forward to seeing next one!

Top Woolarding.

Excellent video as usual very informative

I'm sure Auto Shenanigans has stalking me the last few weeks. :-) He did a Greenham Common Video and I had one ready in the can for editing that you can see. I did a Harwell Diamond Light Source video (I get to look inside the building) now he has gone there. I go to Wallingford and he goes there. ( two videos including a car show, a castle and Jethro Tull's house, not the prog rock band) I have a Watlington video in the can ready to edit. (Including J R R Tolkien's daughter's grave that he is yards from)

Another interesting post John. Nice one!

Nice drone footage of our Chinnor yard

Great vid, here's a thumbs up and comment for the algorithm.

Chinnor is a village, Watlington is a Town...

Chinnor has a great heritage railway. I'm surprised you didn't check it out also!

As always, very informative and infused with your special blend of sarcastic humour and 'don't give a f*ck'. So refreshing and so very British. You are a wonderful antidote to woke. Keep up the excellent work. Love from Bristol, UK!!

Didcott skyline was dominated by cooling towers until about fifteen years ago when they were removed in spectacular fashion😁

I once spent a night in Didcot. On a bench, at the railway station. I used to meet my girlfriend in Oxford (she lived in Aylesbury and I in Bristol), and after kissing her goodnight and getting on the rail replacement bus to Didcot, the bus promptly drove straight into the side of a taxi. Another bus was arranged, but this took time, so by the time we got to Didcot, there was only a few minutes until the last train to Bristol (which I was the only passenger for). Not realising the urgency of the moment, I was being chivalrous and letting others off the bus first, and stepped on to the platform to see the tail lights of the last train vanish down the line. Great Western staff were less than interested and essentially said it was my fault (despite the bus issue). So I had to sit for 4hrs or so, in the dark waiting on the first train west. I haven’t set foot in Didcot since (I broke up with the GF not long after, for unrelated reasons).

Another great vid....

I’m amazed that you have done every part of the UK’s roads and those you haven’t done. I now passed my driving test and can drive. I have been to different places and I have learnt a lot from just by watching your videos.

Towards the end of the 18th Century, Wantage became known as ‘Black Wantage’. This was the result of the town becoming a hang-out for criminals and other undesirables from London. Why this happened may have had something to do with Wantage having the reputation for highest number of public houses per capita, a crown it later gave up to nearby Abingdon.
Back in the late 60s, someone thought it would be a wizard wheeze to daub Alfred’s statue with pink paint, the statue staying that was for many years, the paint slowly fading.

How could you visit Chinnor and not talk about the fantastic heritage railway? (I volunteer on it so quite biased)

Jon, far be it for me to criticise or amend your marvelous videos!
I believe Watlington is and has been for sometime the smallest town in England and
Chinnor is a village.
I realise chinnor is quite a bit bigger these days.

My mind did a thing as soon as I heard the retro encabulator speech, such wonderful nonsense jargon

Another fantastic and informative video as always Jon.

Yes the RiversThame and Isis merge at Oxford to bcome the Thames.

You did a great job and I keep on watching every new episode that you put up all the time

You know it's British when it's mixing miles, metres and feet.