Adlestrop is one of the more attractive of Cotswolds villages, the more so on account that it is far less frequented by mass tourism than many other neighbouring towns and villages.
The novelist Jane Austen was a visitor (her uncle was the church rector) and is thought to have drawn inspiration from the village and its surroundings for ''Mansfield Park''.
Adlestrop is probably best known from the short poem of the same name, by the war poet Edward Thomas, whose verse captures for many the essential atmosphere of the English countryside in high 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.
The nearest pub is '''The Fox Inn''' at Oddington, within easy walking distance across Adlestrop Park.