Nuffield
| Nuffield | |
| Oxfordshire | |
|---|---|
 Holy Trinity parish church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU6687 |
| Location: | 51°34’55"N, 1°2’10"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 654 (2001) |
| Post town: | Henley-on-Thames |
| Postcode: | RG9 |
| Dialling code: | 01491 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Oxfordshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Henley |
Nuffield is a village in Oxfordshire, in the Chiltern Hills, just over four miles east of Wallingford.
The village pub pub, The Crown, has closed. Huntercombe Golf Club is in the parish.[1]
The Ridgeway, an apparently ancient trackway and now a recognised long-distance footpath, passes through the parish, as does a more modern long-distance trail, the Chiltern Way.
Parish church
The parish church is Holy Trinity. It was originally Norman.[2] Some masonry from this period survives on the south side of the nave.[2] In the 14th century the church was rebuilt and the north aisle was added.[2] The Gothic Revival architect Benjamin Ferrey restored the chancel in 1845.[2]
History
The ancient Ridgeway path runs through the village. The section of the Ridgeway west of the village follows the ancient Grim's Ditch.
The road between Henley and Wallingford passes through the parish just north of Nuffield. It was made into a turnpike in 1736 and ceased to be a turnpike in 1873.[3] It is now classified the A4130.
Sights about the village
Nuffield Place
- Main article: Nuffield Place
Nuffield Place is a house completed in 1914. In 1933 it was bought by William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, who had it enlarged and lived there until his death in 1963. Despite his being one of the richest men of his age, the founder of the Morris Motor Company and much else beside, Lord Nuffield lived a modest life at Nuffield Place. He was buried beside his wife at the parish church, and bequeathed Nuffield Place and its contents to Nuffield College, Oxford.
The college gave the house and part of the estate to the National Trust.[4]
Huntercombe Place
Huntercombe Place is an Edwardian Tudor-style house designed by Oswald Milne, a former assistant to the Arts and Crafts Movement architect Edwin Lutyens and completed in 1910.[2] Huntercombe Place is now part of HMYOI Huntercombe.
Outside links
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References
- ↑ Huntercombe Golf Club
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 724
- ↑ Turnpike Roads in England
- ↑ Nuffield Place information at the National Trust
- Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 724. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.