Crawley, Oxfordshire
| Crawley | |
| Oxfordshire | |
|---|---|
 Crawley | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP340120 |
| Location: | 51°48’22"N, 1°30’25"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 155 (2011) |
| Post town: | Witney |
| Postcode: | OX29 |
| Dialling code: | 01993 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | West Oxfordshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Witney |
| Website: | crawleyvillage.org.uk |
Crawley is a little village standing above a sharp bend on the River Windrush in Oxfordshire, about two and a half miles north of Witney, which stands downstream. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 155.
Crawley has two public houses: the 17th-century Lamb Inn,[1][2] and the Crawley Inn.
Archaeology
A pair of Bronze Age bowl barrows may be seen just south of Blindwell Wood, a mile and three-quarters north of the village, which may date from 2400 to 1500 BC. They are a scheduled monument.[3] The course of Akeman Street, a major Roman road, passes through the parish about a quarter of a mile to the north of the village. In 1964 a 13th-century mediæval iron arrowhead was found in the Windrush at Crawley.[4]
History
Uphill Farmhouse was built in the 17th century.[5][6] Crawley's chapel of St Peter was built in 1837 as a chapel of ease for the Church of England parish church at Hailey.[5] It has ceased to be used for worship and has been converted into a private house.[7]
The present road bridge across the Windrush here is probably of the late 18th-century.[8]
Crawley Mill on the Windrush was part of the Witney area's former blanket-making industry. It has a mill stream and was originally water-powered but was later converted to steam power. It is now an industrial estate.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Crawley, Oxfordshire) |
References
- ↑ The Lamb Inn @ Crawley
- ↑ National Heritage List 1053487: The Lamb Inn (Grade II listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1015212: Pair of bowl barrows immediately south of Blindwell Wood (Scheduled ancient monument entry)
- ↑ Wadge 2008, pp. 15, 18.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 559.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1199893: Uphill Farmhouse (Grade II listing)
- ↑ "Crawley". Oxfordshire Churches & Chapels. Brian Curtis. http://www.oxfordshirechurches.info/Crawley.html.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1053483: Crawley Bridge, Dry Lane (Grade II listing)
- Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1974 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09639-2page 559
- A History of the County of Oxford - Volume 14 pp 171-190: Witney and its Townships (Victoria County History)
- Wadge, Richard (2008). "Mediæval Arrowheads from Oxfordshire". Oxoniensia (Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society) LXXIII: 1–18. http://oxoniensia.org/volumes/2008/wadge.pdf.