Long Hanborough
Long Hanborough | ||
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Shire county | ||
Region | ||
Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | Witney | |
Postcode district | OX29 | |
Dialling code | 01993 | |
Police | Thames Valley | |
Fire | Oxfordshire | |
Ambulance | South Central | |
UK Parliament | ||
Website | Hanborough Parish Council | |
Long Hanborough is a village in
History
An infants' school was built in 1879 and enlarged in 1893.[2] It closed in 1998 and was merged into Hanborough Manor School. The old school building has been converted to a private house.
Christ Church Church of England parish church was built in 1893.[3] It is now part of the Benefice of Hanborough and Freeland.[4] The village also has a Methodist church.[citation needed]
Railway
The Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway was built to the north of Long Hanborough in 1853, with Handborough Station (now called Hanborough: note the change of spelling) opened just east of Long Hanborough. In 1935 the Great Western Railway opened a small station on the Combe Road to serve Combe, although as near Long Hanborough as Combe, and with a very limited service.
On 30 January 1965 a funeral train with the coffin of Sir
Currently
in the other.Amenities
Long Hanborough has a post office, a
Long Hanborough has two pubs, the Three Horseshoes and the George & Dragon. Until the 2000s it had two other pubs. In 2009 the Swan, in Millwood End, was a
Next to Hanborough railway station are Oxford Bus Museum and the Morris Motors Museum. The bus museum has a collection of 40 historic buses and coaches that operated in Oxfordshire, plus relics of Oxford's former horse tramways. The Morris Motors museum has a dozen historic vehicles built by Nuffield Organization companies, mainly Morris Motors.
Hanborough has a Women's Institute.[8]
Buses
Stagecoach West route S7 serves Long Hanborough seven days a week. Buses run twice an hour to Witney in one direction, and to Oxford via Woodstock, Kidlington, and Oxford Parkway in the other.[9]
References
- ^ "Area: Hanborough (Parish): Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
- ISBN 978-0-19722-774-9.
- ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
- A Church Near You. Church of England. Archived from the originalon 4 November 2012. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
- ^ Leigh, Chris (June 1996). "A State Occasion". Steam World (108): 50–1.
- ^ Hanborough Manor Church of England School
- ^ Gray, Christopher (21 January 2009). "The Swan, Long Hanborough". The Oxford Times. Newsquest. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
- ^ "Oxfordshire Federation of Women's Institutes". Archived from the original on 7 September 2003. Retrieved 19 March 2009.
- ^ "S7 from Oxford to Woodstock & Witney" (PDF). Stagecoach West. 5 March 2023. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
External links
Media related to Long Hanborough at Wikimedia Commons