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NORTHMOOR
Near the church is is the Elizabethan Rectory Farmhouse, built in the 16th century. A date-stone over the entrance records alterations in 1629. The farm has also a half-timbered granary on stone stooks and a timber-framed dovecote, both from the 16th or 17th centuries. To the north of the Northmoor between the village and Stanton Harcourt there are a number of disused gravel workings which are now used for fishing and other aquatic sports. Because of its location the village has a history of flooding but this has been reduced since a system of drainage ditches was dug by prisoners of war during the Second World War. The village is within a large bend in the River Thames, about a mile away to the south and east, and the River Windrush is about a mile to the west. To the south-east of the village on the River Thames is Northmoor Lock, built in 1896 to replace an earlier flash lock about a mile upstream. Across the river, about 2 miles away to the south-east, is Appleton which can be reached by footpath across the fields and a footbridge over the Thames. Northmoor is about 6 miles west of Oxford and almost 6 miles south-east of Witney. |
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