The year has started to turn a corner. Mornings will become cooler, the hedgerows are getting heavy with berries, and the swallows and house martins are gathering on the wires, getting ready for their long journey south.

August is a gentle, golden time of year. The verges are heavy with seedheads, the hedgerows are starting to blush with blackberries, and if you look up on a warm evening you might still catch the swifts wheeling overhead before they leave us for another year.

There is something for everyone in Enstone this month. Read on for everything happening in and around the village.