Islip, Oxfordshire

Coordinates: 51°49′23″N 1°14′10″W / 51.823°N 01.236°W / 51.823; -01.236
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Islip
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townKIDLINGTON
Postcode districtOX5
Dialling code01865
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51°49′23″N 1°14′10″W / 51.823°N 01.236°W / 51.823; -01.236

Islip (

2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 652.[1]

Archaeology

The remains of a Romano-British villa have been found about 1⁄2 mile (800 m) southwest of the village.[2] Attempts to locate the royal residence that served as the birth place of Edward the Confessor have so far provied unsuccessful.[3]

Parish church

Main article: St Nicholas' Church, Islip

belltower has a ring of eight bells.[7] Since 1987 the Church of England parish has been part of the Ray Valley Benefice.[8] A chapel associated with Edward the Confessor existed north of the church. The chapel was damaged in April 1645 in a military engagement in the English Civil War, and in the 1780s it was demolished.[5] The former rectory was built in 1689 for Robert South and enlarged in 1807 for William Vincent. It is one of several Grade II* Listed Buildings in Islip.[9]

Economic and social history

View of Islip from the south, published in 1823 in John Dunkin's Oxfordshire. The History & Antiquities of the Hundreds of Bullington & Ploughley. It shows the four-arch bridge over the River Ray that in 1878 was demolished and replaced by the present three-arched one.[10]

The

strip farming.[12] In the 1970s this area of farmland was called Sart Field.[13]

The

Lord of the Manor, and the number of days per week that the manor could ask was fixed.[14] This system had been reinstated by the harvest of 1357 and was probably stopped in Islip in 1386.[15] Sir William Fermor was Steward of the Manor of Islip in March 1540.[16] His brother Richard Fermor was a wool merchant.[citation needed] The Fermor family had its seat at Somerton, Oxfordshire
and had a number of estates in the northern part of the county.

The medieval road linking London and

Lord Fairfax had his men demolish the bridge,[18] which was described as having been "new-built".[17] Then in 1646 during the Third Siege of Oxford a force under the Parliamentarian Colonel George Fleetwood occupied the village.[4] After the war the bridge was rebuilt or replaced, and John Ogilby's Britannia Atlas of 1675 describes it as having six arches.[18] Until the 18th century the ford remained the main crossing except in winter. In that century the road between London and Worcester became a coaching route and Islip developed as a staging post.[4] Islip was on the winter route between Oxford and Buckingham when Gosford Bridge was impassable.[19]

A number of houses in the village bear the names of its numerous coaching inns. The Plume of Feathers, also called the Prince's Arms, was built around 1780 reputedly from materials from the demolished Confessor's Chapel.[4] It has since been demolished. The King's Head, also called the Coach And Horses,[4] was built in the 17th century and became a private house in about 1976.[citation needed] There were inns called the Boot, the Britannia, the Fox and Grapes and the Saddlers Arms. The Saddlers Arms was still trading in 1949[4] but has since closed. Some of the Westminster Prebends met their tenants at the Red Lion.[20][when?]

In 1788 the bridge was

Enclosure Act,[4] which after violent local objection[21] led to the partial drainage of Otmoor. The increased flow of the River Ray scoured the river bed and undermined the bridge. Otmoor Drainage Commissioners denied liability but paid for the repair of two of its arches.[4] An engraving published by John Dunkin in 1823 shows the bridge as having four arches.[10] In 1878 the Thames Valley Drainage Commission widened the river and replaced the bridge with one of three arches.[4] Villagers in the "seven towns" of Otmoor resisted the proposed enclosure and drainage of Otmoor. Unrest came to a head in 1830–31, and the Oxfordshire Militia and the Buckinghamshire Yeomanry were deployed to quell it.[21] The militia was joined by a company of Coldstream Guards that had marched from London on 30 July 1831[22] and was billeted in the village.[citation needed
]

In 1850 the

Bicester Town in 1987 and opened a new station in 1989. The line and Islip station were closed for upgrading under Chiltern Railways' Evergreen 3 project and reopened on 26 October 2015. Trains between London Marylebone and Oxford serve Islip. When the East West Rail is completed, trains between Oxford and Milton Keynes Central
will also pass through Islip.

Islip railway station being enlarged in April 2015

School

In 1704 the Rector,

apprenticing two children from the parish each year, and in 1709 he enlarged and endowed the trust to create a school for poor boys of the parish. A school building was completed in 1710, and in 1712 South finalised the size of the school at not less than 15 and not more than 21 pupils. The school issued each boy with a uniform of a blue coat and a blue cap.[4] In 1812 the number of pupils was increased and in 1815 there were between 90 and 100 boys at the school. By then Dr South's school was following the National School system. By 1833 the number of pupils had fallen to 75 but girls were also admitted. By 1856 a separate infants' school had been added, but later in the 19th century this was absorbed as the infants' department of Dr South's school. In 1893 a new school building was completed to replace the original 1710 premises. The combined total of infants and older pupils was 102 in 1889 and 100 in 1906.[4] Dr South's was reorganised as a junior school, with secondary age pupils transferred to Kidlington Church of England Central School at Gosford. This left Dr South's with only 34 pupils by 1937. In 1950 Dr South's became a voluntary aided school. In 1954 Dr South's had 84 pupils;[4] it now has modern 20th century premises.[23]

Culture

A

Candyskins had its origins in Islip in the late 1970s and 1980s.[citation needed
]

Amenities

Islip has one

public house, The Swan;[28] the other pub, the Red Lion,[29][30] closed in February 2024.[31] It also has a community shop[32] and a village hall.[33]

Charlton Services bus on route 94 at its terminus outside Balliol College, Oxford

Buses

Charlton-on-Otmoor Services bus route 94 links Islip with Oxford via Gosford. There is a limited service from Monday to Friday only.[34] Stagecoach in Oxfordshire route H5 links Islip with the John Radcliffe Hospital via Barton, and with Bicester via Ambrosden.[35] Buses run hourly from Monday to Saturday.[36] Islip has no bus service on Sunday or on public holidays.

Notable residents

Climate

This area has a

2003 European heat wave. The average conditions below are from the Radcliffe Meteorological Station. It has the longest series of temperature and rainfall records for one site in Britain. These records are continuous from January 1815. Irregular observations of rainfall, cloud and temperature exist from 1767.[40]

Climate data for Islip, Oxfordshire
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 14.7
(58.5) 		18.5
(65.3) 		22.1
(71.8) 		27.1
(80.8) 		30.6
(87.1) 		34.3
(93.7) 		33.9
(93.0) 		35.6
(96.1) 		33.5
(92.3) 		27.3
(81.1) 		19.0
(66.2) 		15.2
(59.4) 		35.6
(96.1)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 6.8
(44.2) 		7.4
(45.3) 		10.1
(50.2) 		13.0
(55.4) 		16.7
(62.1) 		19.8
(67.6) 		21.7
(71.1) 		21.2
(70.2) 		18.5
(65.3) 		14.2
(57.6) 		9.8
(49.6) 		7.4
(45.3) 		13.9
(57.0)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) 1.4
(34.5) 		1.4
(34.5) 		2.5
(36.5) 		4.3
(39.7) 		7.2
(45.0) 		10.2
(50.4) 		12.2
(54.0) 		11.9
(53.4) 		9.8
(49.6) 		6.8
(44.2) 		3.8
(38.8) 		2.1
(35.8) 		6.1
(43.0)
Record low °C (°F) −16.6
(2.1) 		−16.2
(2.8) 		−10.9
(12.4) 		−4.8
(23.4) 		−1.8
(28.8) 		1.3
(34.3) 		4.4
(39.9) 		3.5
(38.3) 		−0.6
(30.9) 		−5.1
(22.8) 		−8.8
(16.2) 		−16.1
(3.0) 		−16.6
(2.1)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 52.6
(2.07) 		41.0
(1.61) 		41.1
(1.62) 		43.9
(1.73) 		50.6
(1.99) 		53.3
(2.10) 		59.5
(2.34) 		58.3
(2.30) 		60.3
(2.37) 		65.3
(2.57) 		61.8
(2.43) 		55.8
(2.20) 		643.5
(25.33)
Mean monthly sunshine hours 54.3 70.3 113.3 151.8 191.8 196.9 191.6 180.3 138.3 102.8 64.4 48.8 1,504.3
Source: Radcliffe Meteorological Station (NB: Data from the period 1881–2004)[41]

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  11. ^ Historic England. "Islip Mill (Grade II) (1046576)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
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