The long-standing ‘material containing asbestos’ notices outside the former Chemist shop have been joined by jokey notices outside a lot of other shops in town. Caution tape says, “Enter If You Dare”, and cobwebby strands and orange pumpkins and spiders and skeletons and ghosts are there to give you a scare.

But beware, brave trick-or-treaters, for the greatest danger of all lurks near Abingdon Lock, among the leaves.