Английская Википедия:Great Rollright
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Great Rollright is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Rollright, in the West Oxfordshire district, in Oxfordshire, England, and about Шаблон:Convert north of Chipping Norton.
The village has a Church of England primary school.[1]
History
The former Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway, part of the Great Western Railway, was completed in 1881. The line had a small railway station, Шаблон:Rws, Шаблон:Convert south of Great Rollright. British Railways closed the halt in 1951 and the railway in 1964.
The village's former pub, The Unicorn Inn,[2] was controlled by Hunt Edmunds Brewery of Banbury until the company was taken over in the 1960s; it ceased trading in the late 1980s.
On the 23 December 1944, a United States Army Air Force, Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress (43-38812) was on a flight from RAF Portreath to RAF Glatton. The aircraft crashed while descending in darkness and fog 2 miles North of Great Rollright, killing 8 of the 9 crew.[3][4]
In 1931 the parish had a population of 289.[5] On 1 April 1932 the parish was abolished and merged with Little Rollright to form "Rollright".[6]
Landmarks
The megalithic Rollright Stones are about Шаблон:Convert west of Great Rollright, near the Warwickshire village of Long Compton.
The Church of England parish church of Saint Andrew has Norman,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Early English,Шаблон:Sfn Decorated GothicШаблон:Sfn and Perpendicular GothicШаблон:Sfn features. St Andrew's was restored in 1852 under the direction of the Oxford Diocesan Architect, GE Street.Шаблон:Sfn St Andrew's is a Grade I listed building.[7] The west tower has a ring of six bells. William Bagley of Chacombe, Northamptonshire cast the fourth, fifth and tenor bells in 1695 and the third bell in 1696. W&J Taylor cast the second bell in 1839, presumably at the foundry they then had at Oxford. Henry I Bond and Sons of Burford cast the treble bell in 1899.[8] St Andrew's parish is now part of the Benefice of Hook Norton with Great Rollright, Swerford and Wigginton.[9]
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