Swalcliffe
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Swalcliffe is a village and civil parish about west of Banbury in Oxfordshire. The parish is about long north–south and about east–west. The 2011 Census recorded the population of the modern Swalcliffe parish as 210. The toponym "Swalcliffe" comes from the Old English swealwe and clif, meaning a slope or cliff frequented by swallows. The ancient parish of Swalcliffe was larger than the present civil parish, and included the townships of East Shutford, Epwell, Sibford Ferris, Sibford Gower and West Shutford.
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- Locality
- Cherwell
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Swalcliffe
- UK place.static_image_name
- SS Peter and Paul, Swalcliffe - geograph.org.uk - 119497.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St Peter and St Paul parish church
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SP3737
- UK place.label_position
- bottom
- UK place.area_total_km2
- 6.79
- UK place.population
- 254
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011 Census)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Swalcliffe
- UK place.shire_district
- Cherwell District
- UK place.shire_county
- Oxfordshire
- UK place.region
- South East England
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.post_town
- Banbury
- UK place.postcode_district
- OX15
- UK place.postcode_area
- OX
- UK place.dial_code
- 01295
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Banbury
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 237
- Area
- 6.79
- Official website
- www.swalcliffevillage.co.uk
- Image
- SS Peter and Paul, Swalcliffe - geograph.org.uk - 119497.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01295
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- Swalcliffe
- postal code
- OX15
- OS grid reference
- SP3737
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- Archaeology
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- Tithe barn
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Swalcliffe is a village and civil parish about west of Banbury in Oxfordshire. The parish is about long north–south and about east–west. The 2011 Census recorded the population of the modern Swalcliffe parish as 210. The toponym "Swalcliffe" comes from the Old English swealwe and clif, meaning a slope or cliff frequented by swallows. The ancient parish of Swalcliffe was larger than the present civil parish, and included the townships of East Shutford, Epwell, Sibford Ferris, Sibford Gower and West Shutford.
==Archaeology== About northeast of the village are the remains of an Iron Age hill fort on Madmarston Hill and the site of a Roman villa at Swalcliffe Lea. The hill fort is a scheduled monument. The site of the villa is close to the course of a former Roman road running approximately east–west. Its course is now a bridleway. One authority asserts that there was a Roman or Romano-British village here.
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