Lyneham, Oxfordshire
| Lyneham | |
| Oxfordshire | |
|---|---|
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| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP279204 |
| Location: | 51°52’54"N, 1°35’44"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 153 (2011) |
| Post town: | Chipping Norton |
| Postcode: | OX7 |
| Dialling code: | 01993 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | West Oxfordshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Witney |
Lyneham is a Cotswold village in Oxfordshire, about five miles south-west of Chipping Norton. It is bounded to the southwest by the River Evenlode. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 153.
History
Lyneham Camp or the Roundabout is a former Iron Age hill fort about a mile and a half north-east of the village beside the A361 road. It was excavated in 1956.[1] About 250 yards southwest of the hill fort is Lyneham Longbarrow, which was excavated in 1894. The barrow is of Cotswold-Severn type[2] and contains two chambers. North-west of the barrow is a standing stone that it is believed was originally part of the barrow.[1]
Lyneham was a chapelry of the Church of England parish of St Mary, Shipton-under-Wychwood[3] until 1895. It was then transferred to the parish of St Simon and Jude, Milton-under-Wychwood. The church of St Michael and All Angels was built in Lyneham in 1907. It was a timber-framed building with a corrugated iron exterior, colloquially called a "tin tabernacle". It ceased to be used for worship early in the 1970s and was demolished in 1975.
In the 19th century the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway was built through the south of the parish along the Evenlode valley. The line was authorised in 1845 and completed in 1853. This part of the OW&W Railway is now the Cotswold Line.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Site Name: Lyneham". Oxfordshire's Historic Archives. Ashmolean Museum. http://www.ashmolean.org/ash/amps/oha/SitePages/lyneham.html.
- ↑ Benson & Whittle 2007}
- ↑ Greenaway 1991, p. 97.
- Benson, Don; Whittle, Alasdair (2007). The neolithic Cotswold long barrow at Ascott-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
- Greenaway, Diana, ed (1991). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300. 4, Salisbury. London: Institute of Historical Research. pp. 97–98. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1066-1300/vol4/pp97-98.
- A History of the County of Oxford - Volume 7 pp 117-146: Parishes: Great Milton (Victoria County History)
- A History of the County of Oxford - Volume 1 pp 238-241: Early Man: Mesolithic and Neolithic (Victoria County History)
- A History of the County of Oxford - Volume 1 pp 346-372: Anglo-Saxon remains (Victoria County History)
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