Kingston Lisle

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Kingston Lisle
Berkshire
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Cottage at Kingston Lisle
Location
Grid reference: SU325876
Location: 51°35’10"N, 1°31’55"W
Data
Population: 249  (2001)
Post town: Wantage
Postcode: OX12
Dialling code: 01367
Local Government
Council: Vale of White Horse
Parliamentary
constituency:
Oxford West and Abingdon

Kingston Lisle is a village in north-western Berkshire.

The village stands is at the foot of the Berkshire Downs escarpment, 5 miles west of the local town, Wantage. Swindon is 10 miles to the west. The village is at the foot of Blowing Stone Hill and is one of many spring line settlements at the foot of the scarp of the White Horse Hills. The Uffington White Horse, Uffington Castle and the Ridgeway are nearby.

The village has one public house, which is also a restaurant.

Kinston Lisle is also home to several racehorse trainers, being 5 miles from the horse racing centre of Lambourn.

Parish church

The nave and north door of the Church of England parish church of Saint John the Baptist was built in about 1200.[1] The east window of the chancel is Decorated Gothic.[1] St. John's parish is part of the Benefice of Ridgeway, along with the parishes of Childrey, Letcombe Bassett, Letcombe Regis, Sparsholt and West Challow.

History

The Blowing Stone

The Blowing Stone, King Alfred's supposed means of summoning his troops before the momentous Battle of Ashdown, is at Kingston Lisle.

In literature

Kinston Lisle is featured in Thomas Hughes's novel Tom Brown's Schooldays.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Pevsner, 1966, page 161

Books

  • Page, W.H.; Ditchfield, P.H., eds (1924). A History of the County of Berkshire, Volume 4. Victoria County History. pp. 531–543. 
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus (1966). Berkshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 161–162. 

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