Over Worton
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 Holy Trinity parish church |
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| Over Worton shown within Oxfordshire | |
| OS grid reference | SP4329 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Chipping Norton |
| Postcode district | OX7 |
| Dialling code | 01608 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Oxfordshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
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Over Worton is a hamlet in Oxfordshire, about 7 miles (11 km) south of Banbury and 7 1⁄2 miles (12 km) east of Chipping Norton. Over Worton was a separate civil parish until 1932, when it was merged with Nether Worton to form the current civil parish of Worton.
Just north of Holy Trinity parish churchyard is an Anglo-Saxon hlaew (barrow), about 59 feet (18 m) in diameter and 6 feet 7 inches (2 m) high. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Worton has the remains of a medieval village cross. In the 20th century it was restored as the parish war memorial.
The Domesday Book records that until 1066 one Leofgeat held the manor of Ortune, probably at what is now Nether Worton. After the Norman Conquest of England an estate of three hides and half a yardland at Worton passed to William the Conqueror's half-brother Odo of Bayeux. By 1086 there were 15 households consisting of 10 smallholders and five villagers.
Over Worton has had a parish church since at least the 13th century. The earliest known record of it is from 1254. It had a Norman font, which is now in St John's church, Hempton.
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