Great Rollright

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Village in Oxfordshire, England

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::summary Village in Oxfordshire, England ::

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Field	Value
official_name	Great Rollright
static_image_name	St. Andrew's Church, Great Rollright (looking North) - geograph.org.uk - 407564.jpg
static_image_caption	St Andrew's parish church
coordinates
os_grid_reference	SP3231
label_position	bottom
civil_parish	Rollright
shire_district	West Oxfordshire
shire_county	Oxfordshire
region	South East England
country	England
constituency_westminster	Witney
post_town	Chipping Norton
postcode_district	OX7
postcode_area	OX
dial_code	01608
website	"Rollright Review"
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The village has a Church of England primary school.

History

The former Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway, part of the Great Western Railway, was completed in 1881. The line had a small railway station, , 1/2 mi south of Great Rollright. British Railways closed the halt in 1951 and the railway in 1964.

The village's former pub, The Unicorn Inn, was controlled by Hunt Edmunds Brewery of Banbury until the company was taken over in the 1960s; it ceased trading in the late 1980s.

On 23 December 1944, a United States Army Air Force, Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress (43-38812) was on a flight from RAF Portreath to RAF Glatton. The aircraft crashed while descending in darkness and fog 2 miles North of Great Rollright, killing 8 of the 9 crew.

Great Rollright and neighbouring Little Rollright were historically separate parishes. They were merged into a single civil parish called Rollright in 1932. At the 1931 census (the last before the abolition of the parish), Great Rollright had a population of 289.

Landmarks

The megalithic Rollright Stones are about 1.5 mi west of Great Rollright, near the Warwickshire village of Long Compton.

The Church of England parish church of Saint Andrew has Norman, Early English, Decorated Gothic and Perpendicular Gothic features. St Andrew's was restored in 1852 under the direction of the Oxford Diocesan Architect, GE Street. St Andrew's is a Grade I listed building. The west tower has a ring of six bells. William Bagley of Chacombe, Northamptonshire cast the fourth, fifth and tenor bells in 1695 and the third bell in 1696. W&J Taylor cast the second bell in 1839, presumably at the foundry they then had at Oxford. Henry I Bond and Sons of Burford cast the treble bell in 1899. St Andrew's parish is now part of the Benefice of Hook Norton with Great Rollright, Swerford and Wigginton.

References

Sources

References

[https://great-rollright.oxon.sch.uk Great Rollright Church of England Primary School]. Retrieved 11 May 3023
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"43-38812 | American Air Museum in Britain".
"Military crashes in the south west Midlands - 1944".
"Relationships and changes Great Rollright CP/AP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time.
"Population statistics Great Rollright CP/AP through time". [[A Vision of Britain through Time]].
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Nabb, Graham. (18 April 2011). "Great Rollright S Andrew". [[Central Council of Church Bell Ringers]].
Archbishops' Council. "Benefice of Hook Norton with Gt Rollright Swerford and Wigginton". [[Church of England]].

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