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Visually the setting of Great Tew is its greatest asset — who could go wrong
with such a sweep of hills and fold of valley? Loudon, who made the planting
design, had an eye for a well placed tree and there is no doubt that the trees
are the crowning glory. Such a range of species, shapes and colours to clothe
the hills and soften the outlines, to settle in clumps and woodland, must have
been giving pleasure for many years.
Our history is covered for about the last 900 years by the church; our wall
paintings, tombstones and monuments are our link with past residents of the
parish. The gardens round our church, along with the pub, remind us daily of our
most famous resident and lord of the manor, Lord Falkland. He walked and talked
here with his Oxford friends before being killed in the Civil War, torn between
his duty to his king and an understanding of the rights of the citizen expressed
by Parliament. A civilised man.
The children of our village learn in school what it was like to live in this
village in the past — as a Roman farmer at the villa at Beaconsfield farm, as an
Anglo-Saxon eating pigeon stew cooked over a fire in the study area, at a
medieval banquet, a Tudor court, or seated in a hard wooden desk with a
‘Victorian’ teacher fixing you with a gimlet eye telling you to be silent and
speak only when you are spoken to!
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