Holwell, Oxfordshire

Holwell
Holwell
	Holwell war memorial and St Mary's parish church, seen from the south (December 2006)
	Holwell Location within Oxfordshire
Population	17 (2001 Census)
OS grid reference	SP2309
Civil parish	Holwell;
District	West Oxfordshire;
Shire county	Oxfordshire;
Region	South East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Burford
Postcode district	OX18
Dialling code	01993
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Oxfordshire
Ambulance	South Central
UK Parliament	Witney;
	List of places UK England Oxfordshire 51°46′48″N 1°39′54″W / 51.780°N 1.665°W

Holwell is a village and civil parish about 2 miles (3 km) south of Burford in West Oxfordshire. The 2001 Census recorded the parish's population as 17.^[1]

History

During the time that Robert de Chesney was Bishop of Lincoln (1148–66), land at Holwell was given to the Cistercian Abbey at Bruern.^[2] The Church of England parish church of Saint Mary^[3] was built in the 13th century.^[4] It was rebuilt in 1842 and again in 1895.^[4] The latter rebuilding was designed by the architect Walter Mills of Banbury, using a Gothic Revival interpretation of Perpendicular Gothic.^[4] St Mary's parish is now part of the Benefice of Shill Valley and Broadshire, which includes also the parishes of Alvescot, Black Bourton, Broadwell, Broughton Poggs, Filkins, Kelmscott, Kencot, Langford, Little Faringdon, Shilton and Westwell.^[5]

Attractions

The Cotswold Wildlife Park is within the ecclesiastical parish of Holwell, and the bordering civil parish of Broadwell.

References

^ "Area selected: West Oxfordshire (Non-Metropolitan District)". Neighbourhood Statistics: Full Dataset View. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 22 June 2011. Retrieved 29 March 2010.
^ Page 1907, pp. 79–80.
^ "Oxfordshire Churches & Chapels website: Holwell". Archived from the original on 4 December 2009. Retrieved 12 October 2009.
^ ^a ^b ^c Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 650.
^ Archbishops' Council (2010). "Benefice of Shill Valley and Broadshire". Church of England. Archived from the original on 26 December 2012. Retrieved 28 June 2013.

Sources and further reading

Fisher, A.S.T. (1968). The History of Broadwell, Oxfordshire, with Filkins, Kelmscott and Holwell. privately published.
Page, William, ed. (1907). A History of the County of Oxford, Volume 2. Victoria County History. Archibald Constable & Co. pp. 79–80.
Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 650. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.

External links

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[1] "Area selected: West Oxfordshire (Non-Metropolitan District)". Neighbourhood Statistics: Full Dataset View. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 22 June 2011. Retrieved 29 March 2010.

[FOOTNOTEPage190779–80-2] Page 1907, pp. 79–80.

[3] "Oxfordshire Churches & Chapels website: Holwell". Archived from the original on 4 December 2009. Retrieved 12 October 2009.

[Sherwood-4] Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 650.

[5] Archbishops' Council (2010). "Benefice of Shill Valley and Broadshire". Church of England. Archived from the original on 26 December 2012. Retrieved 28 June 2013.

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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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