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Where exactly is Omlet?

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I can find Wardington easily enough on GoogleMaps, but wondered exactly where Omlet was. If anyone can put a pointer on the map and then send a new URL (click on "Link to this page" first to get a URL at the top that will work) it could be useful. I prefer the hybrid version, but people can change it to what they like.

 

This is just idle curiosity on my part at the moment, but one day I may need to know, and it may help other people too.

 

The URL for Wardington is http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ie=UTF8&hl=en&t=h&om=1&ll=52.115519,-1.285572&spn=0.008499,0.020084&z=16

but you may prefer to start again.

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I can add a placemark, but I can't see how to get it to stay when showing a URL. Perhaps you can only save the map for use on your own computer.

 

Google Earth has only visited Oxfordshire with its satellite in recent weeks, so I am new to all this! I bet Claret can do it.

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The Omlet postcode is OX17 1SD but the result with Multimap isn't very clear.

 

Don't worry about it unless there is an easy solution. I am just a little over-excited because I have been waiting for ages for Oxfordshire to appear on Google Earth, and I am looking up everywhere I can think of.

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Google Earth is a bit more complicated (but more fun) than Google Maps. But both are excellent: you can really see what a place is like by superimposing the road maps on an aerial photograph.

 

To explore Google Earth:

http://earth.google.com/

you have to download a special program.

 

But you don't need a download to see aerial views on Google Maps:

http://maps.google.co.uk/

You can search for a place and then click "Satellite" to see a

photographic image (or you can click "Hybrid", which superimposes a map grid on the picture.)

 

If you want to link to the map or satellite or hybrid result, you need to click "Link to this page" which changes the URL at the top to a permanent safe one which will stay good.

 

I started with MultiMap, then moved to StreetMap, but GoogleMaps are the most fun. You can even see what people have in their back gardens.

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Hi

 

If Claret can't help, I work about five miles from them (just off, I think junction 11 on the M40, am not good with road numbers, navigate by pubs and dogs (don't ask)

 

Anyway, I think it's signposted frm the M40 roundabout, if not its the first left turn after the turn to go north. Its a longish country sweeping round (goes around the back of Cropedy the village where Fairport play every August).

 

Omlet is in the middle of Wardington village, its a left hand turn (also signposted for Apples cookery school), its a steepish track and its sort of in the middle of bend if that makes sense. Its a long twisty village, so even going at 30 can be a bit hairy, so no one should mind if you go slower !Goes over a bit of a bumpy road/track. There is a bakery up this track which is next to the Omlet warehouse (very nice man), but follow the road around and you will get to the head office) You will know if you have gone too far through the village (its v.long) if you then come to a village called Chipping Warden (used to be a base for bombers in WWII, you will see hangers and things, rumours of ghosts.....) Also if you see a pub called the Hare and Hounds on the right, you will have missed Omlet.

 

Honestly, if i can find it anyone can (have been known to get lost in WH Smiths) :oops:

 

Hopes this helps, am sure Claret will give much better directions, as you can see I get bogged down by little details :)

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You've got it right Cherryl.

 

If you drive into Wardington from the M40 roundabout (it's about 5 miles from the roundabout). As you come into Wardington, the road bends to the left and you will see a large stone arch on your left, drive to the left of this, up a dodgy track. take a left fork, following the small Omlet sign, as you come out among the buildings, drive along with the buildings on your right, Omlet is round on the right.

 

Please make sure that you call before going - they don't really have visitor facilities and like to know to expect you.

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Hi Clare

 

umm.. forgot about the arch, must be grateful I didn't hit it. :D

 

Did you meet the baker ? remember seeing him on that coutnry programm that Tony Francis did at 7.30 on ITV (am getting vaguer as I get older !)

 

Thanks

Cherryl

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Hi

 

Think we could be fairly wide spread.

 

The girls and I live just off the Stratford Road.

 

If we are being poor, the bottom end of Bretch Hill, if we are being snooty, overlooking Trinity Park !

 

Have this awful fear that one day we could be fighting each other to get the interesting chicken treats (reduced in the supermarkets), as in, it was me 3 Saturdays ago, getting two reduced mini cabbages for 20p in Sainsburys :D

 

Cherryl and the girls

 

p.s. we are all Henmanics at the moment anyway !

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Did you meet the baker ? remember seeing him on that coutnry programm that Tony Francis did at 7.30 on ITV (am getting vaguer as I get older !)

 

I have met the baker Cherryl, and I felt his buns too :wink:

 

UkButton - there are quite a few from around this area - not all of them post that frequently though. We mix with contingents from neighbouring areas, and are often found at Stratford farmer's market!

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I can always offer you a lift if we're going. The farm market is on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays each month, and we meet at 8.30am in a cafe called McKechnies (local/freerange produce) behind the Rother market area. I can't make the one on the 7th, but will be going on the 21st.

 

Usually there re; Lesley & Carl, Emma (theherd123) & OH, Martinb, me and Rosie, AMO & OH, Cherryl might be coming to one soon, and various others, who get dragged along!

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Hi UKB and Clare

 

Yeah I intend going, though Saturday mornings is now reservered for houskeeping or rather eglu cleaning :D and its so sad, I actually enjoy cleaning them out, changing the straw etc.

 

As we are off the Stratford Road, tend not to get too lost getting to Stratford :D Though I can get really lost getting to Wellesborne.

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