Cumnor Neighbourhood Development Plan
Made Version: May 2021
Modified Plan: 2026 – 2041
The modified Cumnor Neighbourhood Development Plan is published for Regulation 14 statutory consultation from Monday 1st June to 11:59pm on Sunday 12th July 2026
Comments are invited from anyone who lives, works or has an interest in Cumnor. Explore the modified plan policies and map through this website, and click on the button below to complete the consultation form.
The Scholar-Gypsy (extract) by Matthew Arnold
The lost Scholar long was seen to stray, Seen by rare glimpses, pensive and tongue-tied,
In hat of antique shape, and cloak of grey, The same the gipsies wore.
Shepherds had met him on the Hurst in spring; At some lone alehouse in the Berkshire moors,
On the warm ingle-bench, the smock-frock'd boors Had found him seated at their entering,
But, 'mid their drink and clatter, he would fly. And I myself seem half to know thy looks,
And put the shepherds, wanderer! on thy trace; And boys who in lone wheatfields scare the rooks I ask if thou hast pass'd their quiet place;
Or in my boat I lie
Moor'd to the cool bank in the summer-heats, 'Mid wide grass meadows which the sunshine fills, And watch the warm, green-muffled Cumner hills,
And wonder if thou haunt'st their shy retreats.
For most, I know, thou lov'st retired ground!
Thee at the ferry Oxford riders blithe, Returning home on summer-nights, have met
Crossing the stripling Thames at Bab-lock-hithe.