Bicester

Was he obliged to walk it in the traditional manner of the poor countryman seeking his fortune in the great metropolis? Or did he make the journey by the carrier's cart? There are two principal roads by which he may have gone by Newbold-on-Stour, Long Compton, Chapel House and Woodstock to Oxford, Beaconsfield and through High Wycombe and Uxbridge ninety-five miles.

Or he might have chosen to go by Edington, Pillerton, Priors, Sunrising Hill, Roxton and Banbury through Einhoe, Bicester, Aylesbury, Tring and Watford to London ninety-two and three-quarter miles.

Such an one as he would probably first go to London by way of Oxford for like Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure he would doubtless think it a city of light.

There are traditions at Oxford of Shakespeare staying at the Crown Inn in Cornmarket in after years.

Sometimes he would doubtless go by the Banbury and Bicester route and along it at the village of Grendon Underwood to the left of the road between Bicester and Aylesbury as you journey towards London there still linger very precise traditions of Shakespeare having stayed at what was formerly the Old Ship Inn.

Grendon Underwood or Under Burnwood as it is styled in old records appears in an old rhyme as the dirtiest town that ever stood.

But it was never a town and whatever may once have been its condition it is no longer dirty.

It is not at first sight easily to be understood why Shakespeare or any other traveller of that age journeying the long straight stretch of the old Roman road the Aikman Street between Bicester and Aylesbury should want to go a mile and a quarter out of his way for the purpose of visiting this place but that they did so is sufficiently proved by the comparative importance of the house that was until about a hundred and twelve years ago the Old Ship and is now known as Shakespeare Farm.

1,200 migrants here at MOD

Bicester.

It's a revolution in the air.

Why are we having to assimilate into their lifestyle when in fact they should be assimilating into ours? Please have gone out to President Trump, to Elon

But they are putting themselves on the map for a very different reason.

In the village of Piddington, there's revolution in the air.

But here, not even a mile from the tiny village, the government have announced they're hosting 1,200 migrants here at MOD Bicester.

Is it 1,200, though? We've seen plans that says that could go up to 3,000.

Moving forward.

I was seeing some videos the other day, I think down in Bicester.

They're obviously pissed off because there's about 1,500 migrants being housed in an MOD centre there.

But there's a lot of, and this is where, I don't know if I'm hearing it on the grapevine through social media and it's not true, but there's a lot of people saying that they're now being moved away from the hotel element and into actual houses and new builds.

When you get to the bus stop, the electric board is broken, and the buses start coming in, there's no numbers, and they don't say where it's going.

And so all you know is, I'm going to Bicester.

And you've never been to Bicester.

And you're thinking, how the heck am I going to get to Bicester? Well, firstly, you've got to be at the bus stop.

You know you're at the right place.

And then the buses start coming in.

What are you going to do? Well, when a bus comes, you're going to knock on the door and say, is this going to Bicester? And they'll go, no, it's going to Kidlington.

Oh, okay.