Wroxton Abbey

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Birmingham is 40 miles to the north; it is Britain’s second largest city. Oxford is 26 miles to the south; it is the home of Britain’s oldest university. Between these two cities are thousands of acres of the finest agricultural land, the ancestral homes of a score of great English families, and two important towns: Stratford-Upon-Avon and Banbury.

Wroxton village is two and one-half miles from Banbury. Although the village is small, it supports three churches (Church of England, Roman Catholic, and Methodist), a good hotel, and two public houses. "One of the most beautiful villages in the country," wrote E. R. Lester in his short history of Wroxton.

Around the small pond in the center of the village stand fourteenth through twentieth-century homes. They are built mainly of local honey-brown Horton Stone and roofed in decorative thatch.