Lew, Oxfordshire

Village in Oxfordshire, England

Human settlement in England

Lew

Holy Trinity parish church

Lew

Location within Oxfordshire

Population| 65 (2001 Census)
OS grid reference| SP3206
Civil parish|

* Lew

District|

* West Oxfordshire

Shire county|

* Oxfordshire

Region|

* South East

Country| England
Sovereign state| United Kingdom
Post town| Witney
Postcode district| OX18
Dialling code| 01993
Police| Thames Valley
Fire| Oxfordshire
Ambulance| South Central
UK Parliament|

* Witney

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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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* Banbury County Constituency
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Towns|

* Burford
* Signet
* Upton
* Carterton
* Charlbury
* Chipping Norton
* Southcombe
* Witney
* Cogges
* Madley Park
* Woodstock

Large villages|

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* Aston
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* Weald
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* 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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(component villages
and hamlets)|

* Alvescot
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* Ascott d'Oyley
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* Asthall
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* Worsham
* Black Bourton
* Bladon
* Blenheim
* Broadwell
* Bruern
* Cassington
* Worton
* Chadlington
* Chastleton
* Chilson
* Shorthampton
* Churchill
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* Combe
* Cornbury and Wychwood
* Cornbury
* Wychwood
* Cornwell
* Crawley
* Curbridge
* Fawler
* Fifield
* Filkins and Broughton Poggs
* Filkins
* Broughton Poggs
* Finstock
* Fulbrook
* Glympton
* Grafton and Radcot
* Grafton
* Radcot
* Great Tew
* Hardwick-with-Yelford
* Hardwick
* Yelford
* Heythrop
* Dunthrop
* Holwell
* Idbury
* Bould
* Foscot
* Kelmscott
* Kencot
* Kiddington with Asterleigh
* Asterleigh
* Kiddington
* Over Kiddington
* Kingham
* Langford
* Leafield
* Lew
* Little Faringdon
* Little Tew
* Lyneham
* Northmoor
* Over Norton
* Ramsden
* Mount Skippett
* Rollright
* Great Rollright
* Little Rollright
* Rousham
* Salford
* Sandford St. Martin
* Ledwell
* Sarsden
* Shilton
* South Leigh
* Spelsbury
* Dean
* Taston
* Stanton Harcourt
* Swerford
* Swinbrook and Widford
* Swinbrook
* Widford
* Tackley
* Taynton
* Westcott Barton
* Westwell
* Wootton
* Dornford
* Hordley
* Worton
* Nether Worton
* Over Worton

Former districts
and boroughs|

* Chipping Norton Rural District
* Municipal Borough of Chipping Norton
* Witney Urban District
* Witney Rural District
* Municipal Borough of Woodstock
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constituencies|

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* Mid Oxfordshire or Woodstock County Constituency
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