Toot Baldon
| Toot Baldon | |
| Oxfordshire | |
|---|---|
 St Lawrence' parish church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP5600 |
| Location: | 51°42’11"N, 1°10’48"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 148 (2011) |
| Post town: | Oxford |
| Postcode: | OX44 |
| Dialling code: | 01865 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Oxfordshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Henley |
| Website: | Baldons Parish Council |
Toot Baldon is a village and parish in the Bullingdon Hundred of Oxfordshire, about five miles south-east of Oxford. The 2011 Census recorded its population as 148.[1] Since 2012 it has been part of the Baldons joint parish area, sharing a parish council with the adjacent civil parish of Marsh Baldon.
Toponym
"Toot" is derived from an Old English word for "a look-out place".[2] "Baldon" is derived from the Old English for "Bealda's Hill".[3]
History
The Church of England parish church of Saint Lawrence was built mostly in the 13th century.[4] It was restored to designs by the Gothic Revival architect Henry Woodyer in 1865.[5] The church is a Grade-II* listed building.[6] There is a monument to the 1965 Little Baldon air crash in the north aisle of the church.
Court House Farm is partly 16th-century.[5][7] Toot Baldon manor house was built in the 17th century[5] and is Grade-II* listed.[8]
A parish school was built in the 19th or early 20th century. It has since closed and the building is now a private house.
Amenities
Toot Baldon has a pub. It used to be the Crown[9] but is now called the Mole Inn.[10]
Toot Baldon and Marsh Baldon share a cricket club.[11]
References
- ↑ "Area: Toot Baldon (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=11129781&c=Toot+Baldon&d=16&e=62&g=6459278&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1432729482472&enc=1. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
- ↑ Alexander 1912, p. 209.
- ↑ Alexander 1912, p. 46.
- ↑ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 818.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 819.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1193957: Church of St Lawrence (Grade II* listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1047997: Court House (Grade II listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1047998: The Manor House (Grade II* listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1285927: The Crown Public House (Grade II listing)
- ↑ The Mole Inn
- ↑ The Baldons Cricket Club
Sources and further reading
- Alexander, Henry (1912). The Place-Names of Oxfordshire, their origin and development. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 46, 209. https://archive.org/details/placenamesofoxfo00alexrich.
- 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. 47–56. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol5/pp47-56.
- Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 818–819. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
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