Villages of Oxfordshire: Noke

I love the name, Noke. I pass the turning for Noke often, but have only just, a couple of weeks ago, taken the turning down a single track road to see it. The sign says: Noke Only, as if to warn visitors that there is nothing much there to see. On the contrary, it was a beautiful Oxfordshire village.

Views across the Otmoor Valley.

The old one-room school house, now converted into a very desirable dwelling. Note the school bell above the doorway.

The school probably started as a charity work of the church, as many schools here did, as it was next door to the churchyard,

and the church.

A slight bump, not really a hill. I do do miss the Chiltern Hills...

And a gratuitous picture of my boy, just because.

Since these pictures were taken golds and reds have overtaken the greens of mid autumn and fields have been ploughed.