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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
In designing and distributing the questionnaire, analysing the responses and producing this booklet, members of the committee have been encouraged and aided by a number of organisations and individuals.
We should never have been able to achieve this study without generous financial help from Souldern Parish Council, the Village Horticultural Society, the Oxfordshire Rural Community Council and from individual villagers. We are indebted for advice and guidance to Mr Roger Davies, Field Officer of the ORCC, and to Mrs Jean Fletcher for the excellently produced maps of the village and of the footpaths in the parish. We are grateful to Mrs Kathleen McDouall, editor and publisher of the monthly “The Three Parishes", for the help she has given.
But above all, we are grateful to the villagers of Souldern whose production this really is. Without their generous response to the questionnaire, their helpfulness and good humour, this village self portrait would never have been produced.