In many ways the tranquil hamlet of Pishil is the quintessential Oxfordshire village oozing with rural charm.
In many ways but one that is, for squatting in the centre of this close knit community sits a forlorn reminder of everything they have lost: their once thriving and now completely abandoned and overgrown boozer - owned by Russell Brand.
The underfire comedian and actor, 49, purchased The Crown pub in the rural village with wife Laura in March 2020.
The rustic pub, which is the only in the village, was popular both among locals for dining and as an idyllic wedding venue.
But five years on from Brand's purchase of the site, it now lays empty with the only signs of life on the decaying and almost derelict site coming from three stray kittens - allegedly the offspring of a pregnant cat Brand had moved into the pub in the days he still visited.
