THE Cornbury Festival is moving to a new venue next year. The festival – known as “Poshstock” – will be held at the Great Tew Estate, a 12-minute journey from Charlbury, where it has been held up to now.

Festival promoter Hugh Phillimore said: “The moment I saw the park I knew it was the right place for us. The estate has a magic to it – a quintessential piece of English countryside – just a beautiful location.

“As it’s not a well-known site it has an unspoilt, secret quality that we like and already has a great atmosphere which I’m sure we’ll thrive on.”

The Great Tew Estate is owned by Nicholas Johnston, who said: “We’re very pleased to be hosting Oxfordshire’s premier music event and are looking forward to a long and successful relationship with Hugh and The Cornbury Festival’.”

The Great Tew Estate is one of Oxfordshire’s most beautiful and ancient sites.

Mentioned in the Domesday Book, the estate was influential in the 17th century when the Great Tew Circle – a group of the great and the good – met at Tew to discuss England’s cultural future.

“The Circle wasn’t quite a festival but the beginning of a gathering of like-minded souls – not unlike Cornbury Festival today,” said Hugh.

The festival, now in its eighth year, will be held over the weekend of July 1, 2 and 3 next year with early bird tickets going on sale later this month.

For more information visit cornburyfestival.com