Kingston Blount
| Kingston Blount | |
| Oxfordshire | |
|---|---|
 Houses in Baker's Piece, Kingston Blount | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU739994 |
| Location: | 51°41’21"N, -0°55’56"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Chinnor |
| Postcode: | OX39 |
| Dialling code: | 01844 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Oxfordshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Henley |
| Website: | astonrowant.org.uk |
Kingston Blount is a village about four miles south-east of Thame in the east of Oxfordshire. The village is a spring line settlement at the foot of the Chiltern Hills escarpment. Ancient, pre-Roman tracks, The Ridgeway and the Icknield Way, pass through the parish. The Ridgeway is now a National Trail.
History and heritage
The Church of England parish church of St John was designed by Aston Webb and built in 1877.[1] It is red brick, has the nave and chancel under a single roof and a small south aisle.[1] The building is now a redundant church.
Cop Court is an early 18th-century house built around the remains of an earlier, probably 16th-century one.[1] On the south side is a mediæval bastion from an even earlier building on the site.[1]
The village has one public house, The Cherry Tree.[2]
Kingston Crossing Halt railway station served the village with connections to Princes Risborough until its closure.
Sport and recreation
There is a large playing field where the village's main events are held. Kingston Blount has a point-to-point steeplechase course.[3]
References
- A History of the County of Oxford - Volume 8 pp 16-43: Parishes: Aston Rowant (Victoria County History)
- Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1974 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09639-2page 675