Milton, Cherwell

Milton
St. John the Evangelist parish church
Milton Location within Oxfordshire
Area	3.28 km2 (1.27 sq mi)
Population	192 (2011 census)[1]
• Density	59/km2 (150/sq mi)
OS grid reference	SP4535
Civil parish	Milton
District	Cherwell
Shire county	Oxfordshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Banbury
Postcode district	OX15
Dialling code	01295
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Oxfordshire
Ambulance	South Central
UK Parliament	Banbury
List of places UK England Oxfordshire 52°00′40″N 1°20′38″W / 52.011°N 1.344°W / 52.011; -1.344

Milton is a village and civil parish about 2.5 miles (4 km) south of Banbury in Oxfordshire, on the Milton road between the villages of Adderbury and Bloxham.

• The Church of England parish church of Saint John the Evangelist^[2] was built in 1856 by the Gothic Revival architect William Butterfield.^[3]
• Milton has one public house, The Marlstone Tavern, aka the pie pub, https://piepub.co.uk/ The public house has a carpark, garden and is a Freehouse.
• The former Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway, part of the Great Western Railway, was completed in 1881. The GWR opened a small railway station, Milton Halt, in 1908 on the northern edge of the village near Manor Farm. British Railways closed the halt in 1951 and closed the railway to freight traffic in 1964. The track was removed in 1965.
• The village is built near an affluent of the River Cherwell, and has many nature spots and footpaths surrounding it and leading from it.
• The village holds an annual fireworks display, as well as an annual barn dance.

References

External links

This Oxfordshire location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

This page was last edited on 7 May 2022, at 16:16