Curbridge, Oxfordshire

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Coordinates: 51°46′41″N 1°31′23″W / 51.778°N 1.523°W

Curbridge and Lew
Parish church of Saint John the Baptist
Curbridge and Lew Curbridge and Lew shown within Oxfordshire
Population	425 (2001 census)^[1]
OS grid reference	SP3308
Civil parish	Curbridge
District	West Oxfordshire
Shire county	Oxfordshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Witney
Postcode district	OX29
Dialling code	01993
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Oxfordshire
Ambulance	South Central
EU Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Witney
Website	Curbridge website
List of places UK England Oxfordshire

Curbridge is a village within the civil parish of Curbridge and Lew and located immediately southwest of Witney, Oxfordshire.

Caswell Farm, 0.75 miles (1.21 km) southwest of the village, is a moated farmstead that includes remnants of a 15th-century house.^[2]

A Church of England chapel was built in Curbridge in 1838^[2] and the Gothic Revival architect C.C. Rolfe added an apse in 1874.^[3] In 1906 the chapel was demolished and replaced with the present Church of England parish church of Saint John the Baptist.^[2]

References

↑ "Area selected: West Oxfordshire (Non-Metropolitan District)". Neighbourhood Statistics: Full Dataset View. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 24 March 2010.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 567
↑ Saint, 1970

Sources & further reading

Saint, Andrew (1970). "Three Oxford Architects". Oxonensia (Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society) XXXV: 53 ff. Retrieved 3 November 2009.
Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 567. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
Townley, Simon C. (ed.); Baggs, A.P.; Chance, Eleanor; Colvin, Christina; Cooper, Janet (2004). A History of the County of Oxford, Volume 14: Bampton Hundred (Part Two). Victoria County History. pp. 190–225.

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Large villages	Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney Aston Cote Shifford Chimney Bampton Lower Haddon Weald Brize Norton Ducklington Enstone Church Enstone Neat Enstone Chalford Cleveley Fulwell Gagingwell Lidstone Radford Eynsham Barnard Gate Freeland Hailey New Yatt Hanborough Church Hanborough Long Hanborough Milton-under-Wychwood Minster Lovell North Leigh East End Wilcote Shipton-under-Wychwood Standlake Brighthampton Steeple Barton Middle Barton Stonesfield

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