Great Rollright
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_-_geograph.org.uk_-_407564.jpg) St. Andrew's parish church |
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  Great Rollright Great Rollright shown within Oxfordshire | |
| OS grid reference | SP3231 |
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| Civil parish | Rollright |
| District | West Oxfordshire |
| Shire county | Oxfordshire |
| Region | South East |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Chipping Norton |
| Postcode district | OX7 |
| Dialling code | 01608 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Oxfordshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | Witney |
| Website | "Rollright Review" |
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Great Rollright is a village in the civil parish of Rollright, about 2.5 miles (4 km) north of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.
The megalithic Rollright Stones are about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Great Rollright, near the Warwickshire village of Long Compton.
The Mediaeval Church of England parish church of Saint Andrew has Norman,[1][2] Early English,[2] Decorated Gothic[1] and Perpendicular Gothic[2] features. St. Andrew's was restored in 1852 under the direction of the Oxford Diocesan Architect, G.E. Street.[2] The church tower has a ring of six bells.[3] St. Andrew's is now part of the Benefice of Hook Norton with Great Rollright, Swerford and Wigginton.
The former Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway, part of the Great Western Railway, was completed in 1881. The line had a small railway station, Rollright Halt, 0.5 miles (800 m) south of Great Rollright. British Railways closed the halt in 1951 and the railway in 1964.
Great Rollright has a Church of England primary school.[4]
The village had a pub, The Unicorn Inn, but it ceased trading in the late 1980s. It is currently derelict but it is a listed building and there is a campaign to restore it.[5]
In 2010 Great Rollright also lost its Post Office and now has only a post office van service.[citation needed]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 623.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 624.
- ↑ Oxford Diocesan Guild of Church Bell Ringers, Chipping Norton Branch
- ↑ Great Rollright Church of England Primary School
- ↑ Unicorn Website
Sources
- Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 624–625. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
External links
Media related to Great Rollright at Wikimedia Commons
