Gagingwell

Gagingwell
Remains of Medieval wayside cross (left) in front of Wadham House (right)
Gagingwell Location within Oxfordshire
OS grid reference	SP408251
Civil parish	Enstone
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
UK Parliament	Witney
Website	EnstoneVillage.co.uk

Gagingwell is a hamlet in West Oxfordshire, about 6 miles (10 km) east of Chipping Norton and about 1.8 miles (3 km) east of Enstone. The hamlet surrounds a group of springs that give rise to a brook, which flows southwards almost 1 mile (1.6 km) to join the River Glyme just downstream of the hamlet of Radford.

History

In the late Middle Ages a stone wayside cross^[1] was built next to one of the springs. Its surviving plinth and steps are a scheduled monument and a Grade II* listed building.^[2] Gagingwell's few houses are late 17th or 18th century stone buildings with roofs of Stonesfield Slate or, in one case, thatch. The hamlet has also two 18th or early 19th century stone-built barns. Gagingwell is on the main road between Enstone and Bicester. The road was turnpiked in 1793, disturnpiked in 1876^[3] and is now classified as the B4030. In 1848 Gagingwell's population was reckoned to be 57 people.^[4]

Map of “Gageingwell “ in the County of Oxon in 1713

References

1. Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 594. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
2. Historic England (30 August 1988). "Wayside Cross (1052803)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 August 2011.
3. Crossley, Alan (ed.); Baggs, A.P.; Colvin, Christina; Colvin, H.M.; Cooper, Janet; Day, C.J.; Selwyn, Nesta; Tomkinson, A. (1983). A History of the County of Oxford, Volume 11: Wootton Hundred (northern part). Victoria County History. pp. 75–81. {{cite book}}: |first1= has generic name (help)
4. Lewis, Samuel, ed. (1931) [1848]. A Topographical Dictionary of England (Seventh ed.). London: Samuel Lewis. pp. 275–279.