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Dean Court, Oxfordshire

Hamlet in Oxfordshire, England

Field	Value
official_name	Dean Court
coordinates
os_grid_reference	SP4705
label_position	left
civil_parish	Cumnor
shire_district	Vale of White Horse
shire_county	Oxfordshire
region	South East England
country	England
post_town	Oxford
postcode_area	OX
postcode_district	OX2
dial_code	01865
constituency_westminster	Oxford West and Abingdon

Dean Court is a hamlet 2 mi west of the centre of Oxford, England. Dean Court was part of Berkshire until the 1974 local government boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire.

History

The area was the site of a medieval grange of Abingdon Abbey, excavated in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1538 there was a reference to "the rectory of Dencourt". However there is no later record of the church which was evidently in the hamlet during the Middle Ages.

A map of 1761 shows Dean Court as a small hamlet on the road from Oxford to Eynsham,

Development of the area started in the early 1950s with a housing estate called Pinnocks Way. In 1969 Deanfield Road, Broad Close and Owlington Close were built north of Eynsham Road by Wimpey Homes. The Orchard Road estate (originally marketed as "The Hawthornes") was built by Broseley Estates Limited and Costain in 1983 and later in 1985 houses were added by Thameway and Macleans. The Fogwell Road estate was built in 1986.

Dean Court is part of the parish of Cumnor, and until the 20th century parishioners worshipped 1.5 mi away at the Church of England parish church of Saint Michael, Cumnor. There is now the church of Saint Andrew, Dean Court that was built as a chapel of ease.

References

(1994). "A Medieval Grange of Abingdon Abbey at Dean Court Farm, Cumnor, Oxon.". [[Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society.
(1924). "A History of the County of Berkshire, Volume 4".
"Dean Court St Andrew, Botley". The [[Church of England]].

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