Long Hanborough

Long Hanborough

Christ Church parish church
Long Hanborough
Long Hanborough shown within Oxfordshire
Population 2,630 (parish, including Church Hanborough) (2011 Census)
OS grid reference SP4114
Civil parish
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 Hanborough Online

Long Hanborough is a village in Hanborough civil parish, about 4 miles (6.4 km) northeast of Witney in West Oxfordshire, England. The village is the major settlement in Hanborough parish. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 2,630.[1]

History

An infants' school was built in 1879 and enlarged in 1893.[2] It closed in 1998 and was merged into Hanborough Manor School. The old school building has been converted to a private house.

Christ Church Church of England parish church was built in 1893.[3] It is now part of the Benefice of Hanborough and Freeland.[4]

The village also has a Methodist church.

The Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway was built past Long Hanborough in 1852, with Hanborough station between Long Hanborough and Bladon being opened to serve the village. In 1935 the Great Western Railway added a smaller station that is called Combe, but it is actually nearer Long Hanborough than Combe.

On 30 January 1965 the body of Sir Winston Churchill arrived at Hanborough railway station on a train hauled by Battle of Britain Class locomotive Winston Churchill.[5] From Hanborough the funeral cortège proceeded by road to St Martin's Church, Bladon, where he was buried.

Former resident Matt Alder achieved fame with the invention of the now popular health craze "Jazzercise".

Amenities

The old school house was built in 1879 and was still the infants' school until 1998

Long Hanborough has a post office, a GP's practice, a dental practice, a Co-Operative store, a fish and chip shop and a bicycle repair shop. It has two pubs, the Three Horseshoes and the George & Dragon. Until the 2000s it had two other pubs. In 2009 the Swan, in Millwood End, was a gastropub,[6] but it has since ceased trading and is now a private home. The Bell was controlled by Greene King Brewery but is no longer trading.

1950 AEC Regent III bus at Oxford Bus Museum, next to Hanborough railway station

The parish still has a primary school: Hanborough Manor Church of England School.[7]

Next to Hanborough railway station are Oxford Bus Museum and the Morris Motors Museum. The bus museum has a collection of 40 historic buses and coaches that operated in Oxfordshire, plus relics of Oxford's former horse tramways. The Morris Motors museum has a dozen historic vehicles built by Nuffield Organization companies, mainly Morris Motors.

Hanborough has a Women's Institute.[8]

Buses

Long Hanborough has two bus services run by Stagecoach in Oxfordshire. Route 233 runs hourly, Mondays to Saturdays between Woodstock and Burford via Long Hanborough and Witney.[9] Route 11 runs five times a day, Mondays to Fridays between Oxford and Witney via Eynsham and Long Hanborough.[10]

Only route 233 passes Hanborough rail station. Long Hanborough has no evening, Sunday or bank holiday bus service.

References

  1. ↑ "Area: Hanborough (Parish): Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  2. ↑ Crossley, Alan; Elrington, C.R. (eds.); Baggs, A.P.; Blair, W.J.; Chance, Eleanor; Colvin, Christina; Cooper, Janet; Day, C.J.; Selwyn, Nesta; Townley, Simon C. (1990). A History of the County of Oxford, Volume 12: Wootton Hundred (South) including Woodstock. Victoria County History. p. 178. ISBN 978-0-19-722774-9.
  3. ↑ Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 691. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
  4. ↑ Archbishops' Council. "Benefice of Hanborough and Freeland". A Church Near You. Church of England. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
  5. ↑ Leigh, Chris (June 1996). "A State Occasion". Steam World (108): 50–1.
  6. ↑ Gray, Christopher (21 January 2009). "The Swan, Long Hanborough". The Oxford Times. Newsquest. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  7. ↑ Hanborough Manor Church of England School
  8. ↑ Oxfordshire Federation of Women's Institutes
  9. ↑ "Service 233 Woodstock – Hanborough – Witney – Burford" (PDF). Stagecoach in Oxfordshire. 21 July 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  10. ↑ "Service 11 Oxford – Hanborough – Witney" (PDF). Stagecoach in Oxfordshire. 21 July 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2017.

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