Appleford-on-Thames

Appleford
SS Peter & Paul parish church
Appleford
Appleford shown within Oxfordshire
Area	2.97 km² (1.15 sq mi)
Population	350 (2011 Census)
• Density	118/km² (310/sq mi)
OS grid reference	SU5293
Civil parish	Appleford
District	Vale of White Horse
Shire county	Oxfordshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Abingdon
Postcode district	OX14
Dialling code	01235

Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Oxfordshire
Ambulance	South Central

EU Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Wantage
Website	Appleford Parish Council
List of places UK England Oxfordshire 51°38′20″N 1°14′24″W / 51.639°N 1.240°W / 51.639; -1.240Coordinates: 51°38′20″N 1°14′24″W / 51.639°N 1.240°W / 51.639; -1.240

Appleford-on-Thames is a village and civil parish on the south bank of the River Thames about 2 miles (3 km) north of Didcot, Oxfordshire. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 local government boundary changes. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 350.

Evidence of Romano-British settlement has been found in a field south of the parish church plus ceramics and human burials of the same period at Manor Farm. In 1968 the Appleford Hoard of 4th-century Roman artefacts was found. It includes Roman coins, pewter ware, and ironomongery including tools, a chain and a padlock. The hoard is now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

Anglo-Saxon Appleford was in existence by the last quarter of the 9th century, when King Alfred the Great of Wessex granted land there to one of his subjects. The Domesday Book records that in 1086 the manor of Apleford belonged to Abingdon Abbey. It remained so until the dissolution of the monasteries when the abbey surrendered properties including the manor of Apulford to the Crown in 1538. Farming under an open field system prevailed in the parish until 1838 when an enclosure award was made.

The Church of England parish church of SS Peter and Paul was originally a chapelry of Sutton Courtenay. The nave is 12th century Norman and the chancel was rebuilt early in the 13th century. Surviving early features include a Norman door on the south side of the nave and an Early English Gothic door to the chancel. The east and north walls of the chancel have original Early English lancet windows and the south wall has a Perpendicular Gothic window that was added in the 16th century.

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