If you take a boat up the river from Abingdon to Oxford you cannot fail to notice one very large house, standing apparently alone on the rising ground to the east. Two hundred years ago Oliver Goldsmith published The Deserted Village, and it is now claimed that the building ten years earlier of this house - Nuneham House - and the replanning of the estate around it, caused him to write his lament - 'The country blooms - a garden and a grave' Written and directed by Brandon Acton-Bond (from Bristol)