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Milton-under-Wychwood
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Saints Simon and Jude parish church
Milton-under-Wychwood is located in Oxfordshire
Milton-under-Wychwood
Milton-under-Wychwood
Milton-under-Wychwood shown within Oxfordshire
Population 1,648 (2011 Census)
OS grid reference SP3018
Civil parish
  • Milton-under-Wychwood
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town CHIPPING NORTON
Postcode district OX7
Dialling code 01993
Police Thames Valley
Fire Oxfordshire
Ambulance South Central
EU Parliament South East England
UK Parliament
Website Milton under Wychwood Online
List of places
UK
England
Oxfordshire
51°52′19″N 1°33′54″W / 51.872°N 1.565°W / 51.872; -1.565Coordinates: 51°52′19″N 1°33′54″W / 51.872°N 1.565°W / 51.872; -1.565

Milton-under-Wychwood is a village and civil parish about 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Burford, Oxfordshire, just off the A361 road between Burford and Chipping Norton. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 1,648.

The village is one of three named after the ancient forest of Wychwood. The others are Shipton-under-Wychwood immediately to the east of the village and Ascott-under-Wychwood about 2 miles (3 km) away.

In the 18th century Milton had its own clockmaker, William Green (1722–70).

The Church of England parish church of St. Simon and St. Jude was designed by the Gothic Revival architect G.E. Street and built in 1853–54. Street also designed the village school (now closed) and teacher's house, which were built at the same time.

The village has one public house, The Hare, which is a gastropub. For many years it was the Quart Pot pub, latterly controlled by Greene King Brewery, which closed it in 2010. The brewery sold the pub, and Acres Developments of Bournemouth, Dorset, applied for planning permission to turn the pub into a house. Villagers opposed the conversion and in 2012 West Oxfordshire District Council refused to grant planning permission. Eventually two local entrepreneurs bought the pub in 2015, renovated the building and in March 2016 reopened it as The Hare.


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