OU won’t miss it: rows of candy-stripe umbrellas standing as a welcoming party on the junction where this former wool merchant’s manor sits in the Oxfordshire village of Clanfield. This might not be strictly storybook-worthy Cotswold territory – the 17th-century Double Red Duke is nestled just on the edge of those honeypot villages – but where you’ve landed still feels like a Londoner’s country Mecca. Suspiciously clean 4x4s fill the car park,
