The Independent - London, March 31st, 2008
The English village is dying - and with it a way of life stretching back centuries. Richard Askwith laments the accelerating loss of our rural heritage
You cannot go far in rural England without running into a row about postal services. Wootton, in west Oxfordshire, is as good an example as any.
A pretty, grey-stone village of about 260 households, it has a post office counter at the back of a little village shop - itself recently saved from closure by a community initiative, and now staffed by local volunteers.
You wouldn't call it a busy post office, but nor is it deserted: the part-time ...
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