CAST your vote for your favourite fish and chip shop in Oxfordshire.

After more than 200 nominations were received, the top 10 chip shops in the county have been revealed and it's now time to pick which one you think is the best.

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Online nominations closed on June 3 with a a top 10 brought together from those that were nominated.

The voting has now moved to an in-paper voting coupon, with the shop that receives the most votes crowned as the Oxford Mail Best Chip Shop 2021.

The coupon is in today’s paper and will go in each day for the next two weeks, pending on space in the paper.

All tokens must be received by June 27, with the winner announced the following day.

In no particular order, here are the top 10 chip shops which received the most nominations:

• Ocean Blue Fish Bar, 166 Kennington Road, Kennington, Oxford OX1 5BG

• Tiago’s Fish & Chips Vans, differently areas nightly, Ampleforth Arms, 53 Collinwood Road, Headington, Oxford OX3 8HH

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• The Codfather Fish & Chips, Burwell Hall, 355b Thorney Lees, Witney, Oxford OX28 5NP

• Albert’s Fish and Chips, 61 High Street, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 2DN

• Millbrook Fish and Chips, 6 Millbrook Square, Grove, Wantage OX12 7JZ

• Alices Fish and Chips, 7 Atkyns Road, Headington, Oxford OX3 8RA

• Mediterranean Fish Bar, 10 Cherwell Drive, Marston, Oxford OX3 0LY

• Mediterranean Fish Bar, 270 Abingdon Road, Oxford OX1 4TA

• Off the Hook, 9 Oxford Road, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 2BP

• The Harbour Fish & Chips, 63 Harvest Way, Witney, Oxford OX28 1FR

Takeaways have been there when we needed them more than ever during the various lockdowns, and now is their chance to feel the love from us.

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Like the wider catering industry, fish and chip shops have been hit by the coronavirus pandemic.

By the time the first lockdown was announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on March 23 last year, restaurants, cafes and pubs had already been closed three days prior on March 20.

While it was expected restrictions would last a few weeks, it was not months down the line until they did so.

Restaurants and pubs that did not operate takeaway facilities quickly adapted their service to do so, while many takeaways themselves did outstanding work for the community.

Whether that was making meals for workers on the frontline of the pandemic, or delivering meals to the vulnerable, takeaways stood up and served their communities in an altogether different way compared to normal.

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