A NEW smart phone app will allow tourists and residents to discover the hidden wonders of southern Oxfordshire.
The Oxtrails app, officially launched this week, reveals local connections with famous films and authors as well places to eat.
The app’s creators developed five themed trails each with 20 to 25 stops giving snippets of local history and culture. The film trail takes visitors to Dorchester-on- Thames, where scenes for detective dramas Midsomer Murders and Miss Marple have all been filmed as well as Didcot Railway Centre where Jude Law and Keira Knightley filmed sequences for Anna Karenina.
The Oxliterature trail takes tourists from Letcombe Basset’s cress beds, featured in Jude the Obscure, to George Orwell’s grave in Sutton Courtenay and Day’s Lock in Little Wittenham, home of the annual world Pooh Stick championships.
The app is already on the Apple App store, and is due to be available from Google Play for Android devices this week.
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