Don’t, whatever you do, call it a village. Watlington, population 2,643, on the edge of the Chiltern Hills in Oxfordshire, is reputed to be the smallest town in England. “We are so proud of that fact,” says 17-year-old Kitty Tait. “The townspeople, the smallest townspeople, are very proud of that.”
“And we are some of the smallest people in the smallest town,” interjects Al Tait, Kitty’s 52-year-old dad, who describes himself as looking like a Guess Who? character: bald, glasses, ginger-flecked beard.
