Gagingwell
| Gagingwell | |
| Oxfordshire | |
|---|---|
 Remains of Mediæval wayside cross (left) in front of Wadham House (right) | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP408251 |
| Location: | 51°55’23"N, 1°24’29"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Chipping Norton |
| Postcode: | OX7 |
| Dialling code: | 01608 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | West Oxfordshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Witney |
| Website: | EnstoneVillage.co.uk |
Gagingwell is a hamlet in Oxfordshire, about six miles east of Chipping Norton and about two miles east of Enstone. The hamlet surrounds a group of springs that give rise to a brook, which flows southwards almost a mile to join the River Glyme just downstream of the hamlet of Radford.
History
In the late Middle Ages a stone wayside cross[1] was built next to one of the springs. Its surviving plinth and steps are a scheduled monument and a Grade II* listed building.[2]
Gagingwell's few houses are late 17th or 18th century stone buildings with roofs of Stonesfield Slate or, in one case, thatch. The hamlet has also two 18th or early 19th century stone-built barns. Gagingwell is on the main road between Enstone and Bicester. The road was turnpiked in 1793, disturnpiked in 1876 and is now classified as the B4030. In 1848 Gagingwell's population was reckoned to be 57 people.[3]
References
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1974 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09639-2page 594
- ↑ National Heritage List 1052803: Wayside Cross (Grade II* listing)
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel: 'A Topographical Dictionary of England' (S. Lewis and Co., 1848) pp275-279 ISBN 978-0-8063-1508-9
