Aston Tirrold is a village and civil parish in the South Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, about four miles south-east of Didcot, on the north side of the Berkshire Downs. A civil parish in the United Kingdom is a unit of local government. Towns The towns in the district are Didcot, Henley-on-Thames, Thame, Wallingford and Watlington. History See also History of Oxfordshire The county of Oxfordshire was formed in the early years of the 10th century and is broadly situated in the Didcot is a Town in the Thames Valley, in the English county of Oxfordshire (although formerly in Berkshire) The Berkshire Downs are a Downland area in England lie north of the River Kennet, south of the River Thames, east of Swindon and west According to the 2001 census it had a population of 372. It is next to the village and parish of Aston Upthorpe. Aston Upthorpe is a Village and Civil parish in the South Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire (though previously in Berkshire) about
One distinguishing feature of Aston Tirrold is its United Reformed Church, which is one of only two such congregations in England that can trace its history directly back to the Presbyterian dissenters in the 17th century. An unrelated American church of similar name is the United Reformed Churches in North America. Presbyterianism is a family of Christian denominations within the Reformed branch of Protestant Western Christianity English Dissenters were Christians who separated from the Church of England. The congregation itself can be dated from the Act of Uniformity of 1662, from which date two local Dissenting priests, Thomas Cheesman, formerly vicar of East Garston, and Richard Comyns, formerly vicar of Cholsey, are known to have preached to congregations meeting in barns and in the open air. The Act of Uniformity was an Act of the Parliament of England, 14 Charles II c East Garston is a Village and Civil parish in the English county of Berkshire. Cholsey is a large Village and Civil parish, two miles (3 km from Wallingford, in the district of South Oxfordshire in the English A Society of Dissenters was founded at Aston Tirrold some time before 1670, and the current building was erected in 1728. Year 1728 ( MDCCXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a [1]
The current Minister of Aston Tirrold United Reformed Church is the Revd Dr Leslie Milton, who is Tutor in New Testament Studies at Ripon College Cuddesdon. Ripon College Cuddesdon is an Anglican theological college (seminary located in Cuddesdon, a small village a short distance from Oxford. The Liberal Democrat peer Lord Bradshaw is a member of the congregation. William Peter Bradshaw, Baron Bradshaw (October 1936 &ndash) commonly known as Bill Bradshaw, is a British academic and politician
The rock band Traffic lived in Aston Tirrold in the 1960s. Traffic were an English rock band formed in 1967 by Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason. The tennis player Tim Henman currently lives in the village. Timothy Henry "Tim" Henman OBE (born 6 September 1974) is a retired English Tennis player
Between Aston Tirrold and Blewbury is Blewburton Hill, an Iron Age fort. Blewbury is a civil parish and village in the Vale of White Horse district of Oxfordshire, England (historically in Berkshire) about three miles This article is about the archaeological period known as the Iron Age for the mythological Iron Age see Ages of Man.
References
- ^ McDonald, Frances: Monument to Faith: A history of Aston Tirrold Reformed Church (Aston Tirrold, 1978)
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