Crawley, Oxfordshire

Crawley

The centre of Crawley, showing the Lamb Inn (left) and war memorial (right)
Crawley
Crawley shown within Oxfordshire
Population 155 (2011 Census)
OS grid reference SP3412
Civil parish
  • Crawley
District
Shire county
Region
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
Website Crawley Village

Crawley is a village and civil parish beside the River Windrush about 2 1⁄2 miles (4 km) north of Witney, Oxfordshire. The parish extends from the Windrush in the south almost to village of Leafield in the northwest. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 155.[1]

Archaeology

There is a pair of Bronze Age bowl barrows just south of Blindwell Wood, about 1 3⁄4 miles (2.8 km) north of the village. They may be date from 2400 to 1500 BC. They are a scheduled monument.[2]

The course of Akeman Street, a major Roman road, passes through the parish about 1 1⁄4 miles (2 km) north of the village.

In 1964 a 13th-century medieval iron arrowhead was found in the Windrush at Crawley.[3]

History

Uphill Farmhouse was built in the 17th century.[4][5]

Crawley's chapel of Saint Peter was built in 1837 as a chapel of ease for the Church of England parish church at Hailey, Oxfordshire.[4] It has ceased to be used for worship and has been converted into a private house.[6]

Crawley village is above a sharp bend on the Windrush. The present road bridge across the river is probably late 18th-century.[7]

Crawley Mill on the Windrush was part of the Witney area's former blanket-making industry. It has a mill stream and was originally water-powered but was later converted to steam power. It is now an industrial estate.

Amenities

Crawley has two public houses: the 17th-century[8] Lamb Inn[9] and the Crawley Inn.

References

  1. ↑ "Area: Crawley (Parish): Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  2. ↑ Historic England (13 November 1972). "Pair of bowl barrows immediately south of Blindwell Wood (1015212)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  3. ↑ Wadge 2008, pp. 15, 18.
  4. 1 2 Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 559.
  5. ↑ Historic England. "Uphill Farmhouse  (Grade II) (1199893)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  6. ↑ "Crawley". Oxfordshire Churches & Chapels. Brian Curtis. Archived from the original on 9 December 2009.
  7. ↑ Historic England. "Crawley Bridge, Dry Lane  (Grade II) (1053483)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  8. ↑ Historic England. "The Lamb Inn  (Grade II) (1053487)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  9. ↑ The Lamb Inn @ Crawley

Sources & further reading

  • Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 559. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
  • Townley, Simon C. (ed.); Baggs, A.P.; Chance, Eleanor; Colvin, Christina; Cooper, Janet; Day, C.J.; Selwyn, Nesta; Williamson, Elizabeth; Yates, Margaret (2004). A History of the County of Oxford. Victoria County History. 14: Witney and its Townships: Bampton Hundred (Part Two). Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer for the Institute of Historical Research. pp. 171–190. ISBN 978-1-90435-625-7.
  • Wadge, Richard (2008). "Medieval Arrowheads from Oxfordshire" (PDF). Oxoniensia. Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society. LXXIII: 1–18.


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