Sir – Mr Osborne recently announced when visiting China that 160 million Chinese are already watching Downton Abbey and that visas would be simplified to encourage more visits to Britain.

So let’s turn a potential problem into a golden opportunity. Most local folks already know that Bampton in West Oxfordshire is where the village scenes for Downton are filmed, so let’s immediately dual the A40 and improve its connection to the A34 as all those Chinese visitors, it seems, also need to visit Bicester Village. Then why not reintroduce the rail line to Witney and Bampton too, so that Oxford that recognised centre of tourism and academic life, Bicester and London could all be made accessible to everyone.

Harvard in the USA already has throngs of visiting Chinese, and both Oxford universities need to be better prepared for more visitors, by improved language teaching, specialist tours etc.

We are already building one new hotel in Witney, but other accommodation could well be needed.

West Oxfordshire can readily provide Morris dancers to add authenticity to any English experience. We would also of course be happy to tour China in Mr Osborne’s footsteps and promote the rural scene as an adjunct to the Boris promotion of London, which I guess Mr Cameron might appreciate too. Tourism is about showbusiness so let’s grasp the nettle and get on with it.

Mike Breakell, Green badge guide, Finstock