Gagingwell
Hamlet in Oxfordshire, England
title: "Gagingwell" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["hamlets-in-oxfordshire", "west-oxfordshire-district"] description: "Hamlet in Oxfordshire, England" topic_path: "general/hamlets-in-oxfordshire" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gagingwell" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Hamlet in Oxfordshire, England ::
::data[format=table title="infobox UK place"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| official_name | Gagingwell |
| static_image_name | Gagingwell Cross and Wadham House.jpg |
| static_image_caption | Remains of Medieval wayside cross (left) |
| in front of Wadham House (right) | |
| coordinates | |
| os_grid_reference | SP408251 |
| label_position | bottom |
| civil_parish | Enstone |
| shire_district | West Oxfordshire |
| shire_county | Oxfordshire |
| region | South East England |
| country | England |
| post_town | Chipping Norton |
| postcode_district | OX7 |
| postcode_area | OX |
| dial_code | 01608 |
| constituency_westminster | Witney |
| website | |
| :: |
|official_name= Gagingwell |static_image_name= Gagingwell Cross and Wadham House.jpg |static_image_caption= Remains of Medieval wayside cross (left) in front of Wadham House (right) |coordinates = |os_grid_reference= SP408251 |label_position= bottom |population= |population_ref= |civil_parish= Enstone |shire_district= West Oxfordshire |shire_county= Oxfordshire |region= South East England |country= England |post_town= Chipping Norton |postcode_district= OX7 |postcode_area= OX |dial_code= 01608 |constituency_westminster= Witney |website=
Gagingwell is a hamlet in West Oxfordshire, about 6 mi east of Chipping Norton and about 1.8 mi east of Enstone. The hamlet surrounds a group of springs that give rise to a brook, which flows southwards almost 1 mi to join the River Glyme just downstream of the hamlet of Radford.
History
In the late Middle Ages a stone wayside cross was built next to one of the springs. Its surviving plinth and steps are a scheduled monument and a Grade II* listed building. Gagingwell's few houses are late 17th or 18th century stone buildings with roofs of Stonesfield Slate or, in one case, thatch. The hamlet has also two 18th or early 19th century stone-built barns. Gagingwell is on the main road between Enstone and Bicester. The road was turnpiked in 1793, disturnpiked in 1876 and is now classified as the B4030. In 1848 Gagingwell's population was reckoned to be 57 people.
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Bodleian_Libraries,_A_map_of_Gageingwell_in_the_County_of_Oxon.jpg" caption="Map of “Gageingwell “ in the County of Oxon in 1713"] ::
References
References
- (1974). "Oxfordshire". [[Penguin Books]].
- {{NHLE. (30 August 1988)
- (1983). "A History of the County of Oxford, Volume 11: Wootton Hundred (northern part)".
- (1931). "A Topographical Dictionary of England". [[Samuel Lewis (publisher).
::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::