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Coordinates: 51°56′28″N 1°36′29″W / 51.941°N 1.608°W / 51.941; -1.608

Cornwell
Cornwell village
Cornwell  Cornwell shown within Oxfordshire
OS grid reference	SP2727
Parish	Cornwell
District	West Oxfordshire
Shire county	Oxfordshire
Region	South East
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	Witney
List of places: UK • England • Oxfordshire

Cornwell is a village and civil parish about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) west of Chipping Norton in West Oxfordshire.

History

The Church of England parish church of Saint Peter was originally Norman, and the chancel arch survives form this time.^[1] Most of the windows were added later in the Decorated Gothic and Perpendicular Gothic styles.^[2] The church was rebuilt in 1830 and 1882, when the present west window was added.^[3] The south door has a porch with a sundial.^[4]

The manor house dates from the 16th or 17th century, with a dining room and library panelled in about 1640^[5] and 17th century stables and dovecote.^[6] A new front was built onto the house in about 1750, and the drawing room has a fireplace in the style of Robert Adam.^[7] In 1939 the architect Clough Williams-Ellis restored the house, added a ballroom and laid out the gardens.^[8]

Some of the cottages in the village are 17th century.^[9] In 1939 Williams-Ellis, who had designed Portmeirion in north Wales, remodelled all the cottages in Cornwell and remodelled the former village school in neo-Georgian style as the Village Hall.^[10]

Sources

• Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 555–557. ISBN 0 14 071045 0.  

References

The District of West Oxfordshire Oxfordshire • County Council elections • District Council elections • Witney County Constituency Towns Burford • Carterton • Charlbury • Chipping Norton (Southcombe) • Witney (Cogges, Madley Park) • Woodstock (Hensington, Old Woodstock) Large Villages Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney (Aston, Cote, Shifford, Chimney) • Bampton (Lower Haddon, Weald) • Brize Norton • Chadlington • Ducklington • Enstone (Church Enstone, Neat Enstone, Chalford, Cleveley, Fulwell, Gagingwell, Lidstone, Radford) • Eynsham (Barnard Gate) • Freeland • Hailey (New Yatt) • Hanborough (Church Hanborough, Long Hanborough) • Milton-under-Wychwood • Minster Lovell • North Leigh (East End) • Shipton-under-Wychwood • Standlake (Brighthampton) • Steeple Barton • Stonesfield Other Civil Parishes (Component Villages and Hamlets) Alvescot • Ascott-under-Wychwood (Ascott d'Oyley, Ascott Earl) • Asthall (Worsham) • Black Bourton • Bladon • Blenheim • Broadwell • Bruern • Cassington (Worton) • Chastleton • Chilson (Shorthampton) • Churchill • Clanfield • Combe Longa • Cornbury and Wychwood (Cornbury, Wychwood) • Cornwell • Crawley • Curbridge • Fawler • Fifield • Filkins and Broughton Poggs (Filkins, Broughton Poggs) • Finstock • Fulbrook • Glympton • Grafton and Radcot (Grafton, Radcot) • Great Tew • Hardwick-with-Yelford (Hardwick, Yelford) • Heythrop (Dunthrop) • Holwell • Idbury (Bould, Foscot) • Kelmscott • Kencot • Kiddington with Asterleigh (Kiddington, Over Kiddington) • Kingham • Langford • Leafield • Lew • Little Faringdon • Little Tew • Lyneham • Northmoor • Over Norton • Ramsden (Mount Skippett) • Rollright (Great Rollright, Little Rollright) • Rousham • Salford • Sandford St. Martin (Ledwell) • Sarsden • Shilton • South Leigh • Spelsbury (Dean, Taston) • Stanton Harcourt • Swerford • Swinbrook and Widford (Swinbrook, Widford) • Tackley • Taynton • Westcott Barton • Westwell • Wootton • Worton (Nether Worton, Over Worton) Former Districts and Boroughs Chipping Norton Rural District • Municipal Borough of Chipping Norton • Witney Urban District • Witney Rural District • Municipal Borough of Woodstock • Woodstock Rural District Former Constituencies Oxfordshire County Constituency • Woodstock Borough Constituency • Mid Oxfordshire or Woodstock County Constituency • Banbury County Constituency • Henley County Constituency • Mid Oxfordshire County Constituency List of Parliamentary constituencies in Oxfordshire • List of places in Oxfordshire • List of civil parishes in Oxfordshire