Drayton, Cherwell

Hornton Stone building with a thatched roof. It belongs to the local Hook Norton Brewery and serves real ales. Thomas Webb had enclosed some of Drayton s farmland when he bought the manor from Lewis Greville in 1565, By 1833 Drayton had two day schools and a Sunday school. The Oxfordshire Ironstone Railway was built during the First World War to carry ironstone from a quarry west of Horley to a junction with the Great Western Railway just north of Banbury.

Its toponym comes from the Old English drag meaning to carry goods. After the Norman conquest of England of 1066 the conquering Normans dispossessed many Saxon landowners, but the Domesday Book records that in 1086 Drayton still belonged to a Saxon thegn, Turchil of Arden. By 1598 most of the manor of Drayton belonged to Anthony Cope of Hanwell. In about 1629 Sir William Cope, 2nd Baronet sold a large acreage of land at Drayton to William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele of Broughton Castle. The Church of England parish church of Saint Peter was in existence by 1223. Sir Anthony Cope, 1st Baronet (1550-1615) was a puritan, and in 1598 he presented Robert Cleaver, a presbyterian to be curate of Drayton. In the 1920 s it was classified as part of the A41 road.

An Act of Parliament to turn this road was passed in 1747 works to improve the road and establish toll houses were not undertaken until until 1754. The ironstone railway passed just north of Drayton.

Peter s is now one of eight ecclesiastical parishes in the Ironstone Benefice. The Domesday Book records that in 1086 Drayton had a water mill, presumably on Sor Brook on the western boundary of the parish just below the village. A parsonage was built in Drayton in the 16th century. The main road between Banbury and Warwick runs north-south along a ridge in the eastern part of the parish. Coordinates: 52°04′19″N 1°22′30″W / 52.072°N 1.375°W / 52.072; -1.375 Drayton is a village and civil parish in the valley of the Sor Brook in Oxfordshire, about 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of Banbury. Tesselated tiles and Roman coins found near the parish church indicate that there was a Roman villa in the area of what later became Drayton village. Drayton village is Saxon in origin.

It was founded in 2007 to take over the premises of the former Drayton School, which had been opened in 1973. . It was opened in 1917 and closed in 1967. North Oxfordshire Academy is a county secondary school just outside the village.

After the completion of the M40 motorway in 1990 this part of the A41 was detrunked and reclassified as the B4100. The main road between Banbury and Stratford-upon-Avon branches off the Banbury - Warwick road and descends through Drayton village to cross Sor Brook. John Bridges, whom James I had appointed Bishop of Oxford in 1603, suspended Cleaver for failing to adhere to the Book of Common Prayer. St.

Since the 1920 s it has been classified the A422 road. Drayton s earliest recorded public houses were licenced from 1753. It was made into a turnpike in 1744 and ceased to be one in 1871.

 
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