Stadhampton

Stadhampton is a village and civil parish 5 miles (8 km) north of Wallingford, in South Oxfordshire, England. Stadhampton village is on the A329 road and close to the River Thame.

Location

The parish is about 10 miles (16 km) south-east of Oxford and includes the four villages of Stadhampton and Chiselhampton and hamlets of Brookhampton and Ascott. The River Thame runs through Chiselhampton. Stadhampton and Brookhampton are separated by a brook that runs through Chalgrove and joins the Thame just above Chiselhampton Bridge.

History

The name Stadhampton derives from Stodham or Stadham. The short form of the name is still sometimes used. Stodham is the more likely of these two derivatives: in Old English "Stod" was a stallion and "ham" referred to a home or farm. It is also possible that "Stod" is a proper name taken from the original owner of the farm as is the case with the nearby villages of "Witta's Farm" (Long & Little Wittenham).

The Church of England parish church of Saint John the Baptist dates from the 13th century and was rebuilt and enlarged by the Gothic Revival architect E.G. Bruton in 1875.^[2] Since the Reformation St. John's has always had the same parish clergy as St. Mary's, Stadhampton. The Welsh clergyman and writer John Roberts was priest of both parishes 1798-1803.

The village includes several buildings of architectural interest, including a number that are Grade II listed, such as the former Black Horse public house on Thame Road, dating back to 1751^[3]; Ash Cottage, School Lane - formed from three former farm workers cottages, now a single dwelling dating from the 17th century, and on the main street, a 17th-century bakehouse, thatched and built of coursed stone and bearing the date 1658. It was used as a bakery until about 1914.^[4]

Amenities

Most of the amenities of the parish are in the village, including Stadhampton Primary School.^[5] Stadhampton village school used to be at the bottom of School Lane but is now in Cratlands Close.

The parish has three pub-restaurants: The Coach & Horses Inn^[6] in Chiselhampton and The Crown^[7] and the Crazy Bear Hotel^[8] in Stadhampton. Stadhampton has a village store and post office at the petrol station.

The Oxfordshire Animal Sanctuary is in Stadhampton.^[9]

Sources

• Lobel, Mary D, ed (1962). A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 7: Thame and Dorchester Hundreds. Victoria County History. pp. 81–92. 
• Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 776. ISBN 0 14 071045 0. 

References

External links

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