Great Tew
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 St. Michael & All Angels parish church |
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| Great Tew shown within Oxfordshire | |
| Population | 156 (2011 Census) |
| OS grid reference | SP3929 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Chipping Norton |
| Postcode district | OX7 |
| Dialling code | 01608 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Oxfordshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | |
| Website | Great Tew |
Great Tew is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold Hills in Oxfordshire, England, about 5 miles (8 km) northeast of Chipping Norton and 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Banbury. The 2011 Census recorded a parish population of 156.
Great Tew is in the West Oxfordshire District. It has no parish council but holds a parish meeting annually.
Evidence that the area has been inhabited since at least the Bronze Age includes a barrow about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the village.
Excavations of the site of a Roman villa 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southeast of the village at Beaconsfield Farm revealed a hypocaust and mosaic floors, pottery dated to the 3rd and 4th centuries AD and evidence that occupation of the site may have begun early in the 2nd century AD.
Great Tew was settled in the Anglo-Saxon era. Ælfric of Abingdon held the manor of Great Tew by 990 and became Archbishop of Canterbury in 995. Ælfric died in 1005, leaving Great Tew to Saint Alban's Abbey. In 1049–52 the abbey leased Great Tew:
Leofstan, abbot, and St Albans Abbey, to Tova, widow of Wihtric, in return for 3 marks of gold and an annual render of honey; lease, for her lifetime and that of her son, Godwine, of land at Cyrictiwa, with reversion to St Albans.
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