Carterton. apologies in avdvance for length.
It's the home of RAF Brize Norton, so like most garrison towns at the arse end of nowhere the population is a mix of squaddies and yokels.
Cue me being sent to Brize on permanent posting after every place I'd been in the previous 6 years with the exception of the Falklands being closed down. After sorting out my digs I decided to wander into the town to check out the local nightlife. At that time Carterton boasted a grand total of three pubs (These days there's only two as the only half decent one got burned down). The first pub I walked into was called The Aviator. I could have sworn there was an invisible line across the middle of the bar. Squaddies on one side, inbreds on the other. I got in the queue on the civvy side, got my pint and sloped off to the bandit and put a few coins in so as to avoid eye contact with anyone.
Now, at the time I had fairly long hair and was thus obviously NOT a squaddie. However I was also obviously NOT a local. I'd been at the bandit for about five minutes when a yokel wandered over.
Yokel: "Who're you?"
Me: "I'm stuj, just got here, hi."
Yokel: "What are you doing here?"
Me: "I'll be working at the base from tomorrow."
Yokel: "You're a squaddie then."
Me: "Nah mate, I'm a civvy, I couldn't be a squaddie with hair like this."
Yokel: "You work at the base you're a fucking squaddie."
Me: "Fine, I'll just leave you to it then."
And that was the first and last time I ever had a drink in Carterton. Far better to just hop on the X10 bus into Oxford for the evening. Although the nearest proper town to cartoonton, Witney, is quite nice.
Length? Well it's been my home station since 2001, but the longest I've ever spent there is about 3 months.
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Fri 30 Oct 2009, 11:22, 3 replies)

Agreed
Me and the missus went to the Cotswold Wildlife Park last year, don't have a car so we got the bus to Carterton (took forever going round the outskirts before finally going into the "centre", had half-hour wait for cab so popped into (perhaps the same) pub. Shan't be going back.
(Capo, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 12:22, closed)

worth it for the CWWLP though

( Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 15:32, closed)

Yeah, probably best to avoid it.
Try Burford for a variety of pubs - but as you've already found Oxford's probably best bet.
( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Mon 2 Nov 2009, 12:26, closed)