I haven’t been to Great Tew since the late 1960s, when the estate was owned by Major Eustace Robb, who kept it in a state of picturesque decay. A chunk of the estate has now been bought by Nick Jones and converted into an estate hotel, in which guests stay in rustic, sometimes corrugated iron, cabins. I realise I am not supposed to say any of this because it is a social media free zone (although I couldn’t help but notice that everyone was taking photographs). I took only a small number of photographs as a record of a rural idyll:-


