Stonesfield
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Stonesfield is a village and civil parish about north of Witney in Oxfordshire, and about 10 miles (17 km) north-west of Oxford. The village is on the crest of an escarpment. The parish extends mostly north and north-east of the village, in which directions the land rises gently and then descends to the River Glyme at Glympton and Wootton about to the north-east. South of Stonesfield, below the escarpment, is the River Evenlode which touches the southern edge of the parish. At the centre of Stonesfield stands the 13th-century church of St James the Great as well as a Methodist chapel, Sto
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- Locality
- West Oxfordshire
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 1,527
- Timezone
- Europe/London
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Stonesfield
- UK place.static_image_name
- View of Stonesfield, Oxfordshire from a drone over Greenfield Crescent.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Aerial view of the village
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SP3917
- UK place.label_position
- top
- UK place.population
- 1527
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011 Census)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Stonesfield
- UK place.shire_district
- West Oxfordshire
- UK place.shire_county
- Oxfordshire
- UK place.region
- South East England
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.post_town
- Witney
- UK place.postcode_district
- OX29
- UK place.postcode_area
- OX
- UK place.dial_code
- 01993
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Bicester and Woodstock
- UK place.website
- Stonesfield ~ Oxfordshire
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Encyclopedic overview
39 sectionsContents
- Name
- Geology
- History
- Church and chapels
- Church of England
- Methodist
- Economic and social history
- Amenities
- Public houses
- The White Horse
- The Black Head
- The Chequers
- The Maltster and Shovel
- The Marlborough Arms
- The Rose and Crown
- The Swan Inn
- The Churchill Arms
- The Boot Inn
- The Pick and Hammer
- Other amenities
- Village hall and Stonesfield Sports and Social Club
- Sports pitch and playground
- Village shop
- Primary school
- St James’ Centre
- Allotments
- 1st Stonesfield Scouts
- The ''Stonesfield Slate''
- Other
- Transport
- Train
- Bus
- Other
- Literature
- Notable people
- References
- Citations
- Bibliography
- External links
Stonesfield is a village and civil parish about north of Witney in Oxfordshire, and about 10 miles (17 km) north-west of Oxford. The village is on the crest of an escarpment. The parish extends mostly north and north-east of the village, in which directions the land rises gently and then descends to the River Glyme at Glympton and Wootton about to the north-east. South of Stonesfield, below the escarpment, is the River Evenlode which touches the southern edge of the parish. At the centre of Stonesfield stands the 13th-century church of St James the Great as well as a Methodist chapel, Stonesfield Methodist Church, slightly further west. The village is known for Stonesfield slate, a form of Cotswold stone mined particularly as a roofing stone and also a rich source of fossils. The architecture in Stonesfield features many old Cotswold stone properties roofed with locally mined slate along with some late 20th-century buildings and several properties under construction. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 1,527.
==Name== The Domesday Book of 1086 records Stonesfield as , meaning "fool's field". It was still spelt "Stunsfield" as late as 1712 and Stuntesfield in 1854 before mutating to its present place name under the influence of the fame of the Roman mosaic discovered in one of its fields, its slate quarries, and the dinosaur fossils discovered there.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stonesfield” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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