Tiddington, Oxfordshire
| Tiddington | |
| Oxfordshire | |
|---|---|
 The Fox public house | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP648051 |
| Location: | 51°44’31"N, 1°3’47"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 683 (2011 (inc. Albury)) |
| Post town: | Thame |
| Postcode: | OX9 |
| Dialling code: | 01844 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Oxfordshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Henley |
| Website: | Tiddington Online |
Tiddington is a village forming a township of the ancient parish of Albury in Oxfordshire. The village is located on the A418 road between Oxford and Thame, about 3½ miles west of the latter.
Tiddington was a manor within the parish of Albury, although for most of its history it has been a larger place than Albury.[1] Between 1866 and 1932, both Tiddington and Albury townships formed separate civil parishes, but since then have been recombined into the civil parish of Tiddington-with-Albury.
The 2011 Census recorded Tiddington-with-Albury's population as 683.[2]
School
It was recorded in 1786 that in 1737 Lady Mary Bertie, widow of the 2nd Earl of Abingdon had bequeathed £100 for a school in the parish of Albury. This was invested and used to support a schoolteacher, sometimes in Albury and other times in Tiddington. By 1819 the school taught 12 boys funded by Lady Bertie's charity plus other pupils whose families paid fees. There are no records of girl pupils being admitted until 1846.[1]
In 1870 the school became a National School, and in 1874 its new school building opened with one classroom, which had capacity for 44 pupils. It had about 30 pupils until 1926, when it was reorganised as a junior school and senior pupils were transferred to the school at Great Haseley. In the 1950s it was still open as Tiddington with Albury Church of England Primary School,[1] but it has since closed.
Transport
Between 1867 and 1963 the village was served by Tiddington railway station on the Wycombe Railway between Oxford and Maidenhead. The village is now served by bus route 280, which runs frequently between Oxford and Aylesbury.[3]
The Oxfordshire Way Long-distance footpath passes through the village.
Amenities
The village has a public house, The Fox. For a few years it was a bar and restaurant called the Moti Mahal, which is Urdu for "Pearl Palace". It has now been converted back into a pub, and reopened in November 2014 as The Fox and Goat.[4]
Tiddington has a village hall. There is a Waterstock and Tiddington Women's Institute.[5]
Since 1952 an annual tug-of-war with the neighbouring Buckinghamshire parish of Ickford has been held each summer across the River Thame, which here forms the boundary between both the two parishes and the two counties.[6]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lobel 1957, pp. 8–14.
- ↑ "Area: Tiddington-with-Albury (Parish): Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11129695&c=Tiddington-with-Albury&d=16&e=62&g=6459306&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1429002182150&enc=1. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
- ↑ "Sapphire – Aylesbury to Oxford 280". Arriva Shires & Essex. http://www.arrivabus.co.uk/south-east/services/280---sapphire---aylesbury-to-oxford/?direction=outbound. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
- ↑ The Fox and Goat
- ↑ "Your Nearest WI". Oxfordshire Federation of Women's Institutes. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151117021205/http://www.oxfordshirefedwi.co.uk/2.html. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
- ↑ "Tug of War 2002". Tiddington Online. http://www.tiddingtonoxon.co.uk/tugofwar.htm. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
References
- Lobel, Mary D, ed (1957). A History of the County of Oxford. Victoria County History. 5: Bullingdon Hundred. London: Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research. pp. 8–14. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=101877.
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