Kingston Blount

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Kingston Blount
Oxfordshire

Houses in Baker's Piece, Kingston Blount
Location
Grid reference: SU739994
Location: 51°41’21"N, -0°55’56"W
Data
Post town: Chinnor
Postcode: OX39
Dialling code: 01844
Local Government
Council: South Oxfordshire
Parliamentary
constituency:
Henley
Website: astonrowant.org.uk

Kingston Blount is a village about four miles south-east of Thame in the east of Oxfordshire. The village is a spring line settlement at the foot of the Chiltern Hills escarpment. Ancient, pre-Roman tracks, The Ridgeway and the Icknield Way, pass through the parish. The Ridgeway is now a National Trail.

History and heritage

The Church of England parish church of St John was designed by Aston Webb and built in 1877.[1] It is red brick, has the nave and chancel under a single roof and a small south aisle.[1] The building is now a redundant church.

Cop Court is an early 18th-century house built around the remains of an earlier, probably 16th-century one.[1] On the south side is a mediæval bastion from an even earlier building on the site.[1]

The village has one public house, The Cherry Tree.[2]

Kingston Crossing Halt railway station served the village with connections to Princes Risborough until its closure.

Sport and recreation

There is a large playing field where the village's main events are held. Kingston Blount has a point-to-point steeplechase course.[3]

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