Off-Beat England: Winslow Town
 

Folks looking for a new day trip from London should consider hopping the train for about an hour northwest to Winslow Town, which i had never heard of before i read about it in Rick Steves' England travel guide.

Arriving in this Georgian thru and thru small town nestled in the verdant Cotswold Hills is like taking a time capsule back to medieval days when the village square was bustling with wool merchants from Flanders come to bid on wool local landowners brought in.

And what strikes one immediately is the graceful spire of the local parish church - a quinteseential English parish church, surrounded by a peaceful cemetery dotted with yew trees and moss-covered tilting and tipped tombstones still standing as testimony to the town's long long history

I will next describe my day in this fantastic village and what there is to see and do if you come.

www.winslowtowncentre.co.uk

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Winslow, Bucks?
Bucks is Chilterns not Cotswolds.

I've stood on the corner in another Winslow.

1. "nestled in the verdant Cotswold Hills" Cobblers. It's at least an hour's drive to the nearest Cotswold. Nice footpath though: the old Droitwich-Aylesbury Saltway.

2. "Arriving in this Georgian thru and thru small town nestled in the verdant Cotswold Hills is like taking a time capsule back to medieval days " Which? George 1 ascended to the throne 230 years after the last second of medieval history.

3. "when the village square was bustling with wool merchants from Flanders" Also about 200 years after the last Flanders wool merchant had gone home and turned his attention to brewing lager, ripping off Europeran taxpayers, or writing TinTin or whatever it is Belgians do to pass the time. No foreigner ever bought wool in a Georgian town.

If you got all that from this Steeves geezer, he ought to stick to his dayjob

And Winslow's really nice.

Much nicer than the one I visited in Arizona :)

Thank you, Mike, for your insights.

I am going to hate this Rick Steves more and more. He has absolutely no clue about Europe. He is the Donald Rumsfeld among the travel writers. He has absolutely no understanding what is Europe, he is thoroughly prejudiced and delirately misguides innocent Americans when they plan to travel to Europe.

OK - my little fraud has been uncovered by flanner - i picked the name out of a hat not thinking there was one in England

i planned to describe the quintessential English small town

foiled again - don't blame rick Steves

Now back to the joys of Winslow, Cotswolds:

The main square is full of pre-Georgian architecture - check out the old public whipping post in the center. The Old Goat pub serves scrumptious pub food and is known for real ales.

And Winslow's really nice.>

Well i take that statement from flanner seriously - i will have to investigate the real Winslow

If flanner says it's really nice it must be really nice - seriously i'm putting it on my list. thanks ole chap!

Winslow, Buckinghamshire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jan 19, 2009 ... The town is also served by Winslow Church of England Combined School, which is a mixed, voluntary controlled primary school, ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winslow,_Buckinghamshire

>>>and is known for real ales.<<<

That's really peculiar. It is so hard to find a pub in England that serves ales. On my last visit to an English town I had to walk more than 20 yards to find a pub that served real ales.

Take it Easy Hetismij! :)

So the flat emulsion withdrawals have you hallucinating and making things up (at least it is better than all the silly NPR/CBC "reports" you keep quoting)

Now you're doing fake trip reports (!) What next????

fer cryin' out loud - get a grip man -

Probably should have added - Yes, I've been to Winslow many times (used to live near Bicester and had friends living in Winslow and Steeple Claydon just down the road) . . . .

Janis dear - tell me is Winslow - the real Winslow as sweet as flanner says?

Can we meet for tea for two in Betty's Tea Shoppe in Winslow sometime Love?

Are you trying to cram the most solecisms into one thread?

Betty's Tea Rooms in Bucks? Granted: Bucks is a bit north. But it's nowhere near the Be-Ro flour, brown sauce, chips fried in dripping and decent mild belt. To the north it might be: but it's irredeemably in the South.

Where no Betty's Tea Rooms ever deigns to set foot. Anywhere south of Ilkely, in their view, means crossed legs and outstretched pinkies. Wall to wall Southern ponces.

>>Wall to wall Southern ponces.<<

Not a phrase likely to be heard in Betty's, I suspect - unless met by pursed lips and creaking within the Spirella corsets as the spines stiffen. Another fondant fancy, anyone?

Pal - If you've never been to Wilmslow ... WHY post??

Where do you copy this stuff from? What's the point?

Can you discuss the relative merits of Milton Keynes, Canvey Island and Basildon please? I'm sure we'd all love to know ...

Steve

The Steves Geezer is up there with "Don't forget to try the famous echo in the British Museum reading room".
He it was who said that Nelson had one leg and that Drake circumcised the globe.

For a good laugh,try his American/English vocabulary feature
He heads it Make them think you're a local by trying these out on your next Britain trip...

at http://www.ricksteves.com/plan/desti...in/brityan.htm

I like
top hole = first rate
tight as a fish's bum = cheapskate (watertight)
theatre = live stage
shandy = lager and 7-Up
setee = couch
napkin = sanitary pad

All that stuff about nestling in hills
reminds me of Balham Gateway to the South
http://www.balham.com/balhamtv/index.htm

I think that the radio version is funnier than the TV version

Can you discuss the relative merits of Milton Keynes, Canvey Island and Basildon please? I'm sure we'd all love to know ...

No Steve can't except for the famous cows in Milton Keynes - now if it you mean Milton Keynes the great ecommunistic philosopher the town was named after.

(Nah - was really named after an existing old town a few miles away - this Milton Keynes today being one of Britain's most well done planned new cities.)

"<i>Where do you copy this stuff from? What's the point?</i>"

Ooh - be very careful there. I've asked PQ a few times about his copy/paste tendencies and he took EXTREME umbrage ;)

And why would i not take umbrage at the bogus charge of only copying and pasting you have made bogusly many times. I never copy and paste unless i clearly indicate that - a small portion of what i post - Janis even accused me of plagiarism!

Well yes, as a retired professional travel writer for years i do take umbrage at anyone who says i copy and paste without attribution. I guess really it is Janis could not believe than i could write so well by myself so i take it as an accolade really.

and yes i copied my initial info from one of Janis' typically lagubrius trip reports - leaving out the more salacious parts.