Great Tew is in the very centre of what might be described as the “new Cotswolds”. Many properties round here are owned by highly successful and often famous people who have in some ways changed the feel of the place.

When David Cameron was our prime minister his family and friends became known as the Chipping Norton set, not always in a flattering way. Since then, far more famous people like Jeremy Clarkson, whose television shows, The Grand Tour and Clarkson’s Farm, reach worldwide audiences have made the area their own. The great Tew estate has played its part.

The airfield on which the grand tour driving scenes are filmed is part of the estate, and the set up that could be said to have started the whole thing, Soho Farm House, an off-shoot of Nick Jones’s spectacularly successful Soho House group, is also within spitting distance of the village.

In principle this has to be a good thing. A huge injection of money has meant the area has a sense of opulence and well-being. I just wish it didn’t mean that it all becomes rather over manicured.

The waving swathes of Cow-parsley on the verges have been mown away and everything looks just a tad suburban.

However it does mean that many of the great houses around here have been bought, restored and beautifully maintained by people ranging from ex England Soccer captains to titans of industry. Without their input these places wouldn’t survive without extreme difficulty so perhaps the loss of Rural feel is a small price to pay.