Bix, Oxfordshire
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Bix is a village in the civil parish of Bix and Assendon in South Oxfordshire, about Script error: No such module "convert". northwest of Henley-on-Thames. The village is about Script error: No such module "convert". above sea level in the Chiltern Hills.
History
The remains of a Roman farmhouse were found during an excavation of the Common in 1955, as well as later Saxon remains. These were not considered to be worth retaining in an exposed condition and so the area was re-covered.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". There were originally two villages: Bix Brand and Bix Gibwyn.[1] The toponym has at various times been Byxe and Bixa. The Domesday Book of 1086 records Bixa as part of the Hundred of Binfield.
Bix Brand's original parish church of Saint James is a small Norman building in Bix Bottom, about Script error: No such module "convert". north of the village. It has a nave, chancel and several Norman lancet windows.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Later additions include the Perpendicular Gothic east window and another Perpendicular window in the south wall.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". In 1874 the architect John Gibson completed the village's new Church of England parish church, closer to the centre of the village, also dedicated to Saint James.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The new church has a north aisle and transept as well as a nave and chancel.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Two of the north aisle windows contain sections of late 15th century Flemish stained glass.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The old church was abandoned in 1875Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". and became ruined and overgrown.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[2]
Scenes from the 1971 Tigon British Film Productions film The Blood on Satan's Claw were filmed there.[3] Funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2015 has stabilised and preserved the ruin. Bix Manor has a 17th-century barn.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". The main road between Henley and Wallingford passes through the parish. It was made into a turnpike in 1736 and ceased to be a turnpike in 1873.[4] The hill between Fair Mile, on the edge of Henley, and Bix was made a dual carriageway in 1937, one of the earliest dual carriageways in the country.[5] It is now the A4130 road.
Amenities
The Warburg Nature Reserve in Bix Bottom is one of the largest that the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust owns and manages in Oxfordshire. It has an important population of Chiltern flora and fauna.[6] It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.[7]
References
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- ↑ South Oxfordshire Archaeology Group: The Search for the Site of the Lost Church of Bix Gibwyn Script error: No such module "webarchive".
- ↑ Oxfordshire Churches website: Bix Script error: No such module "webarchive".
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- ↑ Turnpike Roads in England Script error: No such module "webarchive".
- ↑ The Times 16 September 1937, cited in Victoria County History: Oxfordshire: Bix. Text in progress.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
- ↑ Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust, Warburg Nature Reserve Script error: No such module "webarchive".
- ↑ Natural England, Bix Bottom citation Script error: No such module "webarchive".
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