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English afternoon tea (or simply afternoon tea) is a British tradition that involves enjoying a light meal of tea, sandwiches, scones, and cakes in the mid-afternoon, typically between 3:30 and 5 pm. It originated in the 1840s as a way for the upper class to bridge the gap between lunch and a late dinner.
For a timeless afternoon tea in Oscar Wilde style, pastry chef Loic Carbonnet puts on a decadent display of sandwiches, scones and desserts in the Hotel Café Royal’s Grade II-listed Grill Room ...
Rotherfield Peppard (often referred to simply as Peppard by locals) is a village and civil parish in the Chiltern Hills in South Oxfordshire.It is centred 3 miles (5 km) west of Henley-on-Thames, 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (7 km) north of Reading, Berkshire and 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest of Rotherfield Greys.
There is a village hall, tea shop and adjacent car park, and a children's playground. In the parish, Buscot Park houses the notable Faringdon Collection of paintings, an Italian water garden, and a walled vegetable garden and fruit orchards. A short walk from the end of the village leads past Buscot Weir field to Buscot Lock on the River Thames.
Abingdon-on-Thames (/ ˈ æ b ɪ ŋ d ən / AB-ing-dən), commonly known as Abingdon, is a historic market town and civil parish [2] on the River Thames in the Vale of the White Horse district of Oxfordshire, England.
Ralph Agas' Map of 1578 shows an underdeveloped area to the north of St George's Tower, the current plot of the Lighthouse pub The Lighthouse is a public house in central Oxford , England . The pub is located at 1 Park End Street , next to the Castle Mill Stream and close to the end of the Oxford Canal .
This is a list of settlements in both the non-metropolitan shire and ceremonial county of Oxfordshire, England. Places marked ¹ were in the administrative county of Berkshire before the boundary changes of 1974. They are within the historic county boundaries of Berkshire. See also the list of places transferred from Berkshire to Oxfordshire in ...
The King's Arms had extensive tea-lawns on which to spend lazy Sunday afternoons. The first lock at Sandford was the navigation weir or flash lock situated on the old river channel at the site of the lasher today. This was described in 1624 as "Great Lockes" and was replaced in about 1632 by one of the first pound locks to be built in England.