Idbury
Coordinates: 51°52′52″N 1°39′40″W / 51.881°N 1.661°W
| Idbury | |
 Idbury
Idbury shown within Oxfordshire |
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| Population | 112 (parish, including Bould and Foscot) (2001 census)[1] |
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| OS grid reference | SP2319 |
| Civil parish | Idbury |
| District | West Oxfordshire |
| Shire county | Oxfordshire |
| Region | South East |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Postcode district | OX7 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Oxfordshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | Witney |
| Website | Idbury |
| List of places: UK • England • Oxfordshire | |
Idbury is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold Hills in Oxfordshire, about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) southeast of Stow-on-the-Wold in neighbouring Gloucestershire.
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[edit] History
The Church of England parish church of Saint Nicholas was originally Norman, but little survives from this period except the ornate north doorway.[2] Early in the 14th century the bell-turret, north aisle, south porch and south doorway were added, new windows were inserted in the chancel and the chancel arch was altered.[2] The east window is Decorated Gothic.[2] The bell tower was added shortly afterwards.[2] Later a clerestorey was added to the nave and other windows were added to the nave and north aisle, all in the Perpendicular Gothic style.[2]
Idbury had a Church of England school from 1845 until 1966. The building is now a private house.[3]
The engineer Sir Benjamin Baker, noted for his work on the Forth Bridge, London Victoria station and the first Aswan Dam, is buried in the churchyard.[4]
[edit] The Countryman
J. W. Robertson Scott[5] moved to Idbury Manor in 1922 and founded The Countryman[6] magazine there in 1927.[7] In 1924 the novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner rented a cottage in Idbury from Robertson Scott.[8] In 1934 the Canadian poet Frank Prewett moved to Idbury where he briefly worked as assistant editor of The Countryman.[9] The magazine continued publication after the retirement of Robertson Scott in 1949 and has been published at Broughton Hall, near Skipton, North Yorkshire, since 2003. It moved in 1949 to Burford, Oxfordshire and apart from a short period in a London office remained there until 2003.[10]
[edit] References
- ^ "Area selected: West Oxfordshire (Non-Metropolitan District)". Neighbourhood Statistics: Full Dataset View. Office for National Statistics. http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do;jsessionid=ac1f930b30d73ec370d62b6f4444bc01a4cf1c94ffa8?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790500&nsjs=true&nsck=true&nssvg=true&nswid=1020. Retrieved 29 March 2010.
- ^ a b c d e Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 657
- ^ Idbury website: Idbury school
- ^ Kerrigan, 1998, page 123
- ^ John William Robertson Scott (1866-1962); author of England's Green & Pleasant Land and other works
- ^ The Countryman Magazine
- ^ Idbury website: J. W. Robertson Scott and the Countryman Magazine
- ^ Idbury website: Sylvia Townsend Warner in Idbury
- ^ Idbury website: Frank Prewett in Idbury and Fifield
- ^ "Countryman profile". Countryman Publications Ltd. http://www.news.countrymanmagazine.co.uk/?page_id=2. Retrieved 2011-07-05.
[edit] Sources
- Kerrigan, Michael (1998). Who Lies Where - A guide to famous graves. London: Fourth Estate. p. 123. ISBN 1-85702-258-0.
- Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 657–658. ISBN 0 14 071045 0.
[edit] External links
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