Leafield
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Coordinates: 51°50′20″N 1°32′42″W / 51.839°N 1.545°W
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Leafield shown within Oxfordshire |
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| OS grid reference | |
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| Parish | Leafield |
| District | West Oxfordshire |
| Shire county | Oxfordshire |
| Region | South East |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Witney |
| Postcode district | OX29 |
| Dialling code | 01993 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Oxfordshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | Witney |
| Website | Leafield Village Home Page |
| List of places: UK • England • Oxfordshire | |
Leafield is a village and civil parish about 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Witney in West Oxfordshire.
The village is 635 feet (194 m) above sea level in the Cotswold Hills. It was the highest point in Oxfordshire until the county boundary changes in 1974.
Leafield is in the historic area of the ancient Wychwood forest and on the course of the Wychwood Way, a 37-mile circular walking trail.
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[edit] History
Sir George Gilbert Scott designed the Church of England parish church of Saint Michael and All Angels designed in 1859. It was consecrated in 1860 and the bell tower was completed in 1874.[1] The parish church is now a member of the Forest Edge Benefice.[2]
Leafield parish includes the hamlet of Langley, 1 mile (1.6 km) west of the village. A large radio transmission station was sited here from 1912 until 1986.[3] British Telecom redeveloped the site as a training college, but then closed the site in 1993.[4] It was then used by Tom Walkinshaw Racing (TWR) as a motorsport development centre for the Arrows Formula One team,[5] until the team's demise in 2002. From 2006 to 2008 Leafield Technical Centre was the headquarters of the now-defunct Super Aguri F1 team.
[edit] Bibliography
- Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 682. ISBN 0 14 071045 0.
