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 | Accommodation: Bekynton House offers a relaxed and comfortable home from home. We have 3 bedrooms (with TV) and luxury bathrooms for B&B Guests in the main house, plus an adjacent self-contained two-bedroom cottage. |
 | Refreshments: Tea and coffee available Full English or Continental breakfast Lunch/dinner served at 3 country pubs all within 5 minutes stroll. |
| Location: Oxford is just 20 minutes drive away, as are the M4 (junction 13) and M40 (junction 7) motorways. London takes only 40 minutes by train from the nearby mainline station. Sutton Courtenay is situated on the south bank of the River Thames about 12 miles from Oxford. It lies between the towns of Abingdon (the oldest recorded medieval settlement in Britain) and Didcot (with its fast mainline rail service to London Paddington). |
 | Situation: Bekynton House and Cottage stand in attractive walled gardens overlooking the Green in the heart of the village, just a few minutes walk from no less than 3 country pubs serving good food and the Thames Path. |
| History: The house and cottage date back from before Elizabethan times with an 18th century stone front and a late Victorian wing. At one time the courthouse of the village, Bekynton House was named after Thomas Bekynton, absentee rector of the parish of Sutton Courtenay (1420-1443). The present church dates from the mid 12th century. In the graveyard is the tomb of Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minster of England during the First World War and also the grave of the author, George Orwell, buried under his real name of Eric Blair. |
 | The Green has been a focal point of the village for at least a thousand years. Early buildings in addition to the church include The Abbey to the south and the Norman Hall and Manor House to the West. (According to legend there is an underground passage connecting the Abbey in Sutton Courtenay with Abingdon Abbey.) |
We are located within the Vale of the White Horse, which is named after the nearby oldest chalk figure in Britain, dating back over 3,000 years. |
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