| Great Rollright | |
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_-_geograph.org.uk_-_407564.jpg) St Andrew's parish church | |
  Great Rollright Location withinOxfordshire | |
| OS grid reference | SP3231 |
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| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Chipping Norton |
| Postcode district | OX7 |
| Dialling code | 01608 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Oxfordshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| UK Parliament | |
| Website | "Rollright Review" |
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Great Rollright is a village in thecivil parish ofRollright, in theWest Oxfordshire district ofOxfordshire, England. It is about 2.5 miles (4 km) north ofChipping Norton.
The village has aChurch of England primary school.[1]
The formerBanbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway, part of theGreat Western Railway, was completed in 1881. The line had a small railway station,Rollright Halt,1⁄2 mile (800 m) south of Great Rollright.British Railways closed the halt in 1951 and the railway in 1964.
The village's former pub, The Unicorn Inn,[2] was controlled byHunt Edmunds Brewery of Banbury until the company was taken over in the 1960s; it ceased trading in the late 1980s.
On 23 December 1944, aUnited States Army Air Force,Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress (43-38812) was on a flight fromRAF Portreath toRAF Glatton. The aircraft crashed while descending in darkness and fog 2 miles North of Great Rollright, killing 8 of the 9 crew.[3][4]
Great Rollright and neighbouringLittle Rollright were historically separate parishes. They were merged into a single civil parish called Rollright in 1932.[5] At the 1931 census (the last before the abolition of the parish), Great Rollright had a population of 289.[6]
ThemegalithicRollright Stones are about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Great Rollright, near theWarwickshire village ofLong Compton.
TheChurch of England parish church ofSaint Andrew hasNorman,[7][8]Early English,[8]Decorated Gothic[7] andPerpendicular Gothic[8] features. St Andrew's was restored in 1852 under the direction of theOxford Diocesan Architect,GE Street.[8] St Andrew's is aGrade I listed building.[9] The west tower has aring of six bells. William Bagley ofChacombe, Northamptonshire cast the fourth, fifth and tenor bells in 1695 and the third bell in 1696.W&J Taylor cast the second bell in 1839, presumably at the foundry they then had atOxford. Henry I Bond and Sons ofBurford cast the treble bell in 1899.[10] St Andrew's parish is now part of theBenefice ofHook Norton with Great Rollright,Swerford andWigginton.[11]
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