Filkins
Filkins | ||
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Shire county | ||
Region | ||
Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | Lechlade | |
Postcode district | GL7 | |
Dialling code | 01367 | |
Police | Thames Valley | |
Fire | Oxfordshire | |
Ambulance | South Central | |
UK Parliament | ||
Website | Filkins & Broughton Poggs | |
Filkins is a village in the civil parish of Filkins and Broughton Poggs, in the West Oxfordshire district, in the county of Oxfordshire, England. It is about 2.5 miles (4 km) southwest of Carterton.
Churches
Church of England
The Gothic Revival architect G. E. Street designed the Church of England parish church of Saint Peter, and it was built in 1855–57.[1] The parish is now part of the benefice of Shill Valley and Broadshire.
Methodist
The Methodist chapel was dedicated in 1833.[2]
Local government
Filkins was historically a
Social and economic history
Swinford Museum occupies a 17th-century cottage in Filkins and stands alongside the former village lock-up. George Swinford founded the museum in 1931 with the help of Labour politician and landowner Stafford Cripps.
Stafford Cripps worked with architect Percy Richard Morley Horder and the local stonemason George Swynford on the provision of council housing in the village. Cripps insisted that the new buildings should be of stone and stylistically in keeping with local vernacular traditions, meeting the difference in cost for the council housing, re-opening quarries on his own land to provide building. This was recorded in Country Life. As a result, by 1944 Filkins was being hailed as 'a modernised village' and 'an illustration of contemporary village planning', in an article in Country Life by Christopher Hussey.[8]
In 2007 the Filkins estate, which John Cripps (son of the post-war Labour minister Stafford Cripps) bequeathed upon his death in 1993, but which had been partly passed over to the Ernest Cook Trust[9] since then, was fully transferred to the Trust's portfolio. The Filkins Estate is on the county boundary between Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire and includes one 500 acres (200 ha) farm and a number of cottages, with a small area of commercial units housing the Cotswold Woollen Weavers and Filkins Stone Company.
Amenities
Filkins has a
References
- ^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 604.
- ^ "Filkins Methodist chapel". Filkins & Broughton Poggs.
- A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
- ^ "Relationships and changes Filkins Hmlt/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
- ^ "Witney Registration District". UKBMD. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
- ^ Vision of Britain website
- ^ "Population statistics Filkins CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
- ^ C. Hussey, 'Filkins, Gloucestershire: a Modernised Village', Country Life, 28 April 1944, pp. 728–31;
- ^ "The Filkins Estate and the Ernest Cook Trust". Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 8 January 2010.
- ^ The Five Alls
- ^ Cotswold Woollen Weavers
- ^ The Old Station Nursery Archived 10 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine
Sources and further reading
- Fisher, A.S.T.(1968). The History of Broadwell, Oxfordshire, with Filkins, Kelmscott and Holwell. privately published.
- Sherwood, Jennifer; ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
- Swinford, George (1987). The Jubilee Boy. The Filkins Press.
External links
Media related to Filkins at Wikimedia Commons