Lew
| Lew | |
| Oxfordshire | |
|---|---|
 Holy Trinity parish church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP324064 |
| Location: | 51°45’22"N, 1°31’52"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 65 (2001) |
| Post town: | Witney |
| Postcode: | OX18 |
| Dialling code: | 01993 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | West Oxfordshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Witney |
Lew is a village two and a half miles south-west of Witney in Oxfordshire. The 2001 Census recorded the parish population as 65.
History
Evidence of early habitation in the parish includes a tumulus on a hill 350 feet high hill to the west of the village. The village's name, recorded as Hlæwe in 984, means "hill" in Old English.
Until the 19th century Lew was a township in the parish of Bampton. It became a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1857, called Bampton Lew, until the latter was reunited with Bampton in 1917.
Parish church
The Church of England parish church of the Holy Trinity was designed in a 13th-century style by the architect William Wilkinson and built in 1841.[1]
Outside links
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References
- ↑ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, pp. 682–683.
- Blair, John (1994). Anglo-Saxon Oxfordshire. Stroud: Alan Sutton Publishing for Oxfordshire Books. ISBN 9-780750-901475.
- A History of the County of Oxford - Volume 13 pp 90-93: Lew: Introduction (Victoria County History)
- Ekwall, Eilert, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 4th edition, 1960. ISBN 0198691033
- Mills, Anthony David: 'A Dictionary of British Place-Names' (Oxford University Press, 2003) ISBN 978-0-19-852758-9