Eadlesthorp, Tatlestrop, Tadilthorpe, Tiddlestrop, since the days of the Saxons it has taken a while for the name of the village to settle on Adlestrop.

It has never been anything but a small community. At its peak in 1801, when the farms relied on a substantial labour force, it had a population of around 225. Today we await the results of the census to find out how many people live here now, but it surely won’t be that many.

These days the village is home to one of the most sophisticated racing stables in the UK. Adlestrop Stables combines beautiful and traditional Cotswold life with some of the country’s most modern training facilities.

This peaceful village is served by one shop / post office where, if you are lucky, you might be able to buy a cup of tea and a cake in the summer.

Yes. I remember Adlestrop
The name, because one afternoon
Of heat, the express-train drew up there
Unwontedly. It was late June.

The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat.
No one left and no one came
On the bare platform. What I saw
Was Adlestrop-only the name

And willows, willow-herb, and grass,
And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry,
No whit less still and lonely fair
Than the high cloudlets in the sky.

And for that minute a blackbird sang
Close by, and round him, mistier,
Farther and farther, all the birds
Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.

– Edward Thomas