The road through the ancient village
of Noke is a mile long descent onto the marsh plain of Otmoor. It
is an area of rare flora and fauna: the Royal Society for the Protection
of Birds recently acquired neighbouring land to reintroduce breeding
waders such as the lapwing and the bittern.
Lower Farm is the final habitation in the village and at the end
of a no-through road. It is a 400 acre grassland farm with, at its
heart, the farmhouse and a quadrangle of cottages providing quiet
and seclusion.
The owners, Emma and Austen Righton, thought long and hard before
creating the Otmoor Holidays idyll far, but not too far, from life's
pressures.
