Radford, Oxfordshire

Human settlement in England

Enstone

District

West Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire

Region

South East

CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townChipping NortonPostcode districtOX7Dialling code01608PoliceThames ValleyFire Oxfordshire Ambulance South Central UK Parliament

Witney

WebsiteEnstone village website

List of places: UK; England; Oxfordshire

51°54′54″N 1°24′27″W / 51.9150°N 1.4076°W / 51.9150; -1.4076

Radford is a hamlet on the River Glyme in Enstone civil parish about 6 miles (10 km) east of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.

History

In 1086, the manor of Radford, in the hundred of Shipton, Oxfordshire, was one of six manors held by Anchetil de Greye from William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford. The Domesday Book entry records Ide(m) Anschtall(us) de Grai ten(et) III hid(ae) in Radeford... ("the same Anchetil de Greye holds three hides in Radford...".^[1]

Radford has a Roman Catholic chapel dedicated to the Holy Trinity, designed by A. W. N. Pugin in a Gothic Revival version of the Early English Gothic style of architecture,^[2]^[3] built in 1841.^[2]

References

^ Ansketil (of Graye) in Domesday Book at opendomesday.org, accessed 29 October 2022
^ ^a ^b Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 734. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
^ Radford on Oxfordshire Churches website Archived 1 December 2009 at the Wayback Machine