Toot Baldon
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Toot Baldon is a village and civil parish about Script error: No such module "convert". southeast of Oxford in Oxfordshire. Since 2012 it has been part of the Baldons joint parish council area, sharing a parish council with the adjacent civil parish of Marsh Baldon. The 2011 Census recorded its population as 148.[1]
Toponym
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History
The Church of England parish church of Saint Lawrence was built mostly in the 13th century.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". It was restored to designs by the Gothic Revival architect Henry Woodyer in 1865.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The church is a Grade II* listed building.[2] There is a monument to the 1965 Little Baldon air crash in the north aisle of the church. Court House Farm is partly 16th century.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[3] Toot Baldon manor house was built in the 17th centuryScript error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". and is Grade II* listed.[4] A parish school was built in the 19th or early 20th century. It has since closed and the building is now a private house.
Amenities
Toot Baldon has a pub. It used to be the Crown[5] but is now called the Mole Inn.[6] Toot Baldon and Marsh Baldon share a cricket club.[7]
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