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Oxfordshire 13th century farmhouse up for 1.6 million
Hyde Farmhouse, on Abingdon Road in Marcham, is an extended former farmhouse, with a later 17th century evolution, that also comes with its own garage and separate annex.
On the ground floor there is an entrance hall, two sitting rooms, cloakroom, pantry, utility room, kitchen, dining room, and garden Room.
On the first floor there are four bedrooms, three bathrooms, and an attached dressing room for the principal bedroom.
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The two-storey annex beside the house has a large entrance hall, a spa, gym, open plan kitchen, and an upstairs bedroom.
The house sits approximately 0.8 acres of gardens, balancing open lawn with more informal planting and seasonal change.
The rooms benefit from exposed timbers, natural light, with historic windows remaining a central part of the house, as well as original stone flooring.
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The main bathroom has an oval bath, large shower, and a double vanity room.
A pantry and utility room accompanies the kitchen, which comes with an Aga oven.
The village of Marcham sits near the larger village of Abingdon.
The area has been subject to excavations by Oxford University with remains of a possible Roman amphitheatre found in 2009.
Officers working for Thames Valley Police’s roads policing team said the incident happened in the Wantage area on Wednesday.
The driver was arrested on suspicion of multiple offences, including dangerous driving, failing to stop for police, driving without a licence, driving without insurance, and drug driving.
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The force’s roads policing team said: “When we say ‘pull over’, it’s not a suggestion.
“Yesterday in the Wantage area, officers encountered a motorist who chose to treat a police stop as optional. For clarity it isn’t.
“During the attempted getaway, the driver’s standard of driving quickly dropped well below anything resembling safe or competent.
“The journey included a collision with a bollard, followed by the car shedding an entire wheel.
“Now running on three wheels, the vehicle continued into a rural village before finally coming to a stop.
“Officers detained the driver promptly before anything else decided to part company with the car.”
The investigation is continuing.
A road heading out of Carterton in West Oxfordshire has been closed due to the discovery of an old unexploded grenade in a field
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But some fans of the series set in Cambridge, starring David Mitchell, will be disappointed to hear that Gerran Howell is not returning in the role of DC Simon Evans.
Series one of the detective drama was a huge hit in 2024, becoming the channel’s biggest new scripted show since 2022. It attracted more than 9.5 million viewers across 28 days.
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Now a second series is expected to be shown soon in 2026, although a transmission date has yet to be revealed.
David Mitchell will return as John ‘Ludwig’ Taylor, while Anna Maxwell Martin will also be back as his sister-in-law, Lucy Betts-Taylor.
Best known for his role in the comedy Peep Show, David Mitchell was born in Headington and was a pupil at Abingdon School, before going to university at Oxford University’s New College.
Speaking with Radio Times, Gerran Howell, who currently stars as Dr Dennis Whitaker in The Pitt, was asked if he will appear in future episodes of Ludwig.
“Unfortunately not, no,” he replied. “I hope the door is still open, because I really love that show.”
Cast as DC Simon Evans, Howell was a comic figure in the first series, often appearing to be one of the last members of the police team to realise who had committed a murder.
Following the release of season one, which premiered in 2024, the show received positive reviews, with fans comparing it to the iconic Oxford-based detective drama, Inspector Morse.
Renewed for a second instalment, the BBC has confirmed that filming has now started on season two of Ludwig.
Picking up from where the plot was left at the end of series one, master puzzle-setter John ‘Ludwig’ Taylor is now a crime scene consultant working on ‘impossible’ crimes for the Cambridge Police Authority.
When asked how his official role on the police team would shake things up in the new episodes, Mitchell said: “When you watch the second series, you realise there’s still quite a lot of obfuscation involved in his role, because not everyone in the police force is entirely on side with his appointment.
“And of course, he’s still got to cover up the fact that for a long time he was solving cases while impersonating a police officer. And if that ever gets out, well, five murderers will walk free, and he won’t walk free himself.”
The comic actor was recently crowned the winner of the second season of TV series Last One Laughing UK.
He is also a regular on TV panel show Would I Lie To You?
Mitchell and Lee Mack appear as team captains while Rob Brydon is the host.
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