Great Rollright

Great Rollright

St. Andrew's parish church
Great Rollright
 Great Rollright shown within Oxfordshire
OS grid referenceSP3231
Civil parishRollright
DistrictWest Oxfordshire
Shire countyOxfordshire
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited 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 ParliamentWitney
Website"Rollright Review"
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Coordinates: 51°59′10″N 1°31′55″W / 51.986°N 1.532°W

Great Rollright is a village in the civil parish of Rollright, about 2.5 miles (4 km) north of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.

Sights

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.

Great Rollright has a Church of England primary school.[4]

History

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.

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.[6]

The megalithic Rollright Stones are about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Great Rollright, near the Warwickshire village of Long Compton.


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 623.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 624.
  3. ↑ Oxford Diocesan Guild of Church Bell Ringers, Chipping Norton Branch
  4. ↑ Great Rollright Church of England Primary School
  5. ↑ Unicorn Website
  6. ↑ http://rollrightreview.webplus.net/page6.html''. Missing or empty |title= (help);

Sources

External links

Media related to Great Rollright at Wikimedia Commons