Sebastiaan Evans

We have partnered with Frilford Heath Golf Club to offer stay-and-play packages that pair a round on one of Oxfordshire's best-known heathland courses with a night at The Old Crown Coaching Inn. The packages include the green fee, a room, and breakfast the next morning. Prices start at £170 for one golfer. About Frilford Heath Golf Club Frilford Heath was founded in 1908 and is Oxfordshire's 54-hole championship golf estate, with three courses spread across 450 acres. The Red Course,...

"There is nothing, absolutely nothing, half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."— Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows Most people picture the Thames as it runs through London, broad and busy beneath its famous bridges. But the river begins its life far from all that, winding quietly through the water meadows of the Cotswolds, and some of its loveliest reaches are right here on our doorstep in Faringdon. We have teamed up with our friends at Cotswold Boat Hire so that...

A good steak dinner is one of those meals that sounds simple but is surprisingly hard to get right. The meat matters, obviously, but so does the cut, the ageing, the cooking, and the setting. Oxfordshire is not short of places that put a steak on the menu, but the places that do it properly, with well-sourced beef and the kitchen skill to match, are fewer than you might expect. Steak at The Old Crown At The Ballroom Restaurant, our approach to steak reflects our approach to everything else:...