Littleworth, South Oxfordshire

Littleworth
Littleworth Location within Oxfordshire
OS grid reference	SP5905
Civil parish	Wheatley
District	South Oxfordshire
Shire county	Oxfordshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Oxford
Postcode district	OX33
Dialling code	01865
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Oxfordshire
Ambulance	South Central
UK Parliament	Henley
Website	Wheatley Parish Council
List of places UK England Oxfordshire 51°44′42″N 1°09′07″W / 51.745°N 1.152°W / 51.745; -1.152

Littleworth is a hamlet in South Oxfordshire, about 4+1⁄2 miles (7 km) east of Oxford, England. It is in Wheatley civil parish, immediately west of Wheatley village.

There were two windmills on the hill about 300 yards (270 m) south of the hamlet. One was a post mill that burned down in 1875. The other, Wheatley Mill, is an octagonal tower mill that dates from before 1671. It has been rebuilt and re-equipped a number of times, including in 1763 after a fire and in 1784 when the Eagle Ironworks, Oxford supplied some of the machinery. The tower mill had fallen out of use by 1914, and lightning struck it in 1939.^[1]

Since 1976 the windmill has been under restoration. The mill is open to the public one Sunday a month from May until October.^[2]

In 1864 an extension of the Wycombe Railway from Thame to Oxford was built through Littleworth. British Railways closed the line and Wheatley station in 1963. Most of its route through Littleworth was in a cutting, with single-arched brick bridge that still carries Littleworth Road over it.

Littleworth has one public house, the Cricketer's Arms free house.^[3]

Oxford Bus Company route 46 links Littleworth with Oxford via Horspath, Cowley and with Great Milton via Wheatley. Buses run hourly, seven days a week, from early morning until after midnight.^[4]