Let’s move to… Dorchester-on-Thames: ‘A little utopia’

This Oxfordshire village, with wisteria-stewn cottages and water on three sides, is cute as a dormouseWhat’s going for it? Dorchester-on-Thames is one of those English villages that get me all misty-eyed with patriotism, if only patriotism hadn’t been hijacked by the Kippers. Thanks to an illustrious history some time in the seventh century when it was, briefly, capital of Mercia, it carries itself with a certain grandeur. Its parish church is an abbey, it has the confidence to hold