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    Lew, Oxfordshire

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    Lew
    Holy Trinity parish church
    Lew is located in Oxfordshire
    Lew
    Lew
    Location within Oxfordshire
    Population65 (2001 Census)
    OS grid referenceSP3206
    Civil parish
    • Lew
    District
    • West Oxfordshire
    Shire county
    • Oxfordshire
    Region
    • South East
    CountryEngland
    Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
    Post townWitney
    Postcode districtOX18
    Dialling code01993
    PoliceThames Valley
    FireOxfordshire
    AmbulanceSouth Central
    UK Parliament
    • Witney
    List of places
    UK
    England
    Oxfordshire
    51°45′22″N 1°31′52″W / 51.756°N 1.531°W / 51.756; -1.531

    Lew is a village and civil parish about 2+1⁄2 miles (4 km) southwest of Witney in the West Oxfordshire District of Oxfordshire, England. The 2001 Census recorded the parish population as 65.[1] Since 2012[citation needed] the parish has been part of the Curbridge and Lew joint parish council area, sharing a parish council with the adjacent civil parish of Curbridge.

    History

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    Evidence of early human habitation in the parish includes a tumulus, probably Anglo-Saxon, on a 350 feet (110 m) high hill west of the village.[2] The village's place-name, recorded as Hlæwe in 984, means "tumulus" in Old English.[3] Until the 19th century Lew was a township in the parish of Bampton.[4] It became a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1857, called Bampton Lew. The parish was united with Bampton in 1917,[5] and since 1976 has formed part of the benefice of Bampton with Clanfield.[6] Lew was made a separate civil parish in 1866.[7]

    Parish church

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    The Church of England parish church of the Holy Trinity was designed in a 13th-century style by the architect William Wilkinson and built in 1841.[8]

    References

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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.
    2. ^ Blair 1994, pp. 45–46, cited in Crossley & Currie 1996, pp. 90–93
    3. ^ Mills & Room 2003[page needed]
    4. ^ Crossley & Currie 1996, pp. 6–8
    5. ^ Crossley & Currie 1996, pp. 97–98
    6. ^ Archbishops' Council. "Bampton Lew Holy Trinity". A Church Near You. Church of England. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
    7. ^ "unit history of Lew". A Vision of Britain Through Time. University of Portsmouth. 2009. Archived from the original on 24 December 2012. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
    8. ^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, pp. 682–683.

    Sources

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    • Blair, John (1994) [1977]. Anglo-Saxon Oxfordshire. Stroud: Alan Sutton Publishing for Oxfordshire Books. ISBN 9-780750-901475.
    • Baggs, AP; Chance, Eleanor; Colvin, Christina; Day, CJ; Selwyn, Nesta; Townley, Simon C (1996). Crossley, Alan; Currie, CRJ (eds.). A History of the County of Oxford. Victoria County History. Vol. 13: Bampton Hundred (Part One). London: Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research. pp. 90–99. ISBN 978-0-19722-790-9.
    • Ekwall, Eilert (1960) [1936]. Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names (4th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198691033. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
    • Mills, AD; Room, D (2003). A Dictionary of British Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Lew. ISBN 0-19-852758-6.
    • Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 682–683. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
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