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Dry Sandford

Village in Oxfordshire, England

Field	Value
official_name	Dry Sandford
static_image_name	DrySandford StHelen South.JPG
static_image_caption	St. Helen's parish church
coordinates
os_grid_reference	SP4600
label_position	left
civil_parish	St Helen Without
shire_district	Vale of White Horse
shire_county	Oxfordshire
region	South East England
country	England
post_town	Abingdon
postcode_area	OX
postcode_district	OX13
dial_code	01865
constituency_westminster	Oxford West and Abingdon
website

Dry Sandford is a village in the Vale of White Horse district of England, about 3 mi north-west of Abingdon. It is one of two villages in the civil parish of St Helen Without. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred the Vale of White Horse to Oxfordshire.

Manor

The Domesday Book of 1086 records the place as Sandford. The "sandy ford" must have been across the stream now known as Sandford Brook, a tributary of the River Ock, once known as the Lucringe. The village became known as Dry Sandford by the 18th century. Dry Sandford was a manor in the parish of St Helen's, Abingdon, and was held by Abingdon Abbey until the Dissolution in 1538.

Parish church

The Church of England parish church of Saint Helen is a 13th-century-style Gothic Revival building designed by J.B. Clacy of Reading and built in 1855. St. Helen's has lancet windows, a nave, chancel, rib-vaulted apse and a bellcote on the gable above the chancel arch.

Amenities

The east front of Church Farmhouse, added in 1718

Dry Sandford Pit is a nature reserve just south of the village managed by the Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust. The site is of geological importance for its exposure of Corallian beds, and is designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

References

Sources

References

Grundy, G.B.. (1927{{ndash}}28). "Berkshire Charters". Berks, Bucks and Oxon Archaeological Journal.
{{NHLE. (18 March 2003)
"The Parish Churches of The Villages of Wootton and Dry Sandford, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK". The Benefice of Wootton and Dry Sandford.
(2011). "Dry Sandford Pit Nature Reserve". [[Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust]].
"Dry Sandford Pit (SSSI)". [[Natural England]].

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