Great Rollright
| Great Rollright | |
| Oxfordshire | |
|---|---|
_-_geograph.org.uk_-_407564.jpg) St Andrew's parish church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP323312 |
| Location: | 51°58’42"N, 1°31’50"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Chipping Norton |
| Postcode: | OX7 |
| Dialling code: | 01608 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | West Oxfordshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Witney |
| Website: | "Rollright Review" |
Great Rollright is a village and ancient parish in the very west of Oxfordshire, about two and a half miles north of Chipping Norton.
The village has a Church of England primary school.[1]
History
The former Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway, part of the Great Western Railway, was completed in 1881. The line had a small railway station, Rollright Halt, half a mile south of Great Rollright. British Railways closed the halt in 1951 and the railway in 1964.
The village's former pub, The Unicorn Inn,[2] was controlled by Hunt Edmunds Brewery of Banbury until the company was taken over in the 1960s; it ceased trading in the late 1980s.
On the 23 December 1944, a United States Army Air Force, Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress (43-38812) was on a flight from RAF Portreath to RAF Glatton. The aircraft crashed while descending in darkness and fog 2 miles North of Great Rollright, killing 8 of the 9 crew.[3][4]
In 1931 the parish had a population of 289. In 1932 the civil parish of Rollright was formed from those of Great and Little Rollright.
Landmarks
The megalithic Rollright Stones are about a mile and a half west of Great Rollright, near the Warwickshire village of Long Compton.
The Church of England parish church, St Andrew has Norman,[5][6] Early Gothic,[6] Decorated Gothic[5] and Perpendicular Gothic[6] features. St Andrew's was restored in 1852 under the direction of the Oxford Diocesan Architect, George Edmund Street.[6] St Andrew's is a Grade I listed building.[7] The west tower has a ring of six bells.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Great Rollright) |
References
- ↑ Great Rollright Church of England Primary School
- ↑ National Heritage List 1251361: The Unicorn Public House (Grade II listing)
- ↑ "43-38812 | American Air Museum in Britain". https://www.americanairmuseum.com/aircraft/12817.
- ↑ "Military crashes in the south west Midlands - 1944". http://www.aviationarchaeology.org.uk/marg/crashes1944.htm.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 623.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 624.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1052792: Church of St Andrew (Grade I listing)
- Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1974 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09639-2