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Highmoor, Oxfordshire

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OS grid reference
  
SU7084

Country
  
England

Post town
  
Henley-on-Thames

Shire county
  
Oxfordshire

Dialling code
  
01491

UK parliament constituency
  
Henley

Region
  
South East

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Area
  
5.2 kmĀ²

District
  
South Oxfordshire

Civil parish
  
Goring Heath

Highmoor, Oxfordshire

Population
  
278 (parish, including Satwell) (2011 census)

Highmoor is a village and civil parish in the Chiltern Hills in Oxfordshire, about 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Henley-on-Thames. The parish includes the hamlet of Satwell.

Map of Highmoor, UK

The Grade II Listed Church of England parish church of Saint Paul at Highmoor Cross was designed by the architect Joseph Morris of Reading and built by Robert Owthwaite of Henley-on-Thames in 1859 as a chapel of ease by the vicar of Rotherfield Peppard to cater for the wider rural population of the parish. Highmoor later became a separate parish but the church was closed by a pastoral order in June 2012 as a result of a dwindling congregation. The church was then put up for sale by the Diocese of Oxford.

Highmoor has two public houses: the Dog and Duck near Highmoor Cross and the Rising Sun at Witheridge Hill. Both are owned by the local Brakspear Brewery. The Dog and Duck closed in December 2011 and the freehold was subsequently put on the market in March 2012 when the brewery was unable to find a new tenant. The pub remains closed as of April 2015.

References

Highmoor, Oxfordshire Wikipedia


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