Lidstone
| Lidstone | |
| Oxfordshire | |
|---|---|
 Cottages in Lidstone | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP355247 |
| Location: | 51°55’11"N, 1°29’7"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Chipping Norton |
| Postcode: | OX7 |
| Dialling code: | 01608 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | West Oxfordshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Witney |
| Website: | Enstone Parish |
Lidstone is a hamlet on the River Glyme in Oxfordshire, a mile west of Enstone and about three miles east of Chipping Norton.
History and archaeology
In Round Hill Field[1] on a ridge about 700 yards south of Lidstone is a Bronze Age bowl barrow. It is 105 feet in diameter and two feet high. Originally it would have been substantially higher, and would have been created from spoil dug from a circular quarry trench six and a half feet deep. The trench has become filled in but will have survived as a buried feature. The barrow is the most northerly of a line of three that form a line between Lidstone and the village of Spelsbury. It is a scheduled monument. In the middle of the barrow is an Ordnance Survey triangulation station.[2]
By 1279 there was a hide of land at Lidstone that was part of the manor of Heythrop.[3]
Lidstone had a large watermill on the Glyme. It had the largest-diameter waterwheel in Oxfordshire: an overshot wheel 24 feet in diameter[4] and 4 feet wide. Via a 15-foot pitwheel it drove three pairs of millstones. The mill had its own bread oven.[5] The mill was dismantled in 1976 and its machinery taken into storage, but the large iron waterwheel was left in place.[6]
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References
- ↑ Harden 1954, p. 143.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1009430: Bowl barrow 600 yards south-west of Hill Farm, Lidstone (Scheduled ancient monument entry)
- ↑ Crossley 1983, pp. 131–143
- ↑ Foreman 1983, p. 45.
- ↑ Foreman 1983, p. 111.
- ↑ Foreman 1983, plate 22.
- A History of the County of Oxford - Volume 11 pp 131-143: Heythrop (Victoria County History)
- Foreman, Wilfrid (1983). Oxfordshire Mills. Chichester: Phillimore & Co Ltd. pp. 45, 111. ISBN 0-85033-441-1.
- Harden, D.B. (1954). "Scheduled Monuments in Oxfordshire". Oxoniensia (Oxford: Oxford Architectural and Historical Society) XIX: 137–145.
