Little Coxwell

{{Short description|Village in Oxfordshire, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2015}}

{{Use British English|date=August 2015}}

{{infobox UK place

| official_name = Little Coxwell

| static_image_name = Little Coxwell by Andrew Smith.jpg

| static_image_caption = Cottages in Little Coxwell

| coordinates = {{coord|51.639|-1.595|display=inline,title}}

| os_grid_reference = SU2893

| population = 132

| population_ref = (2001 census){{cite web |url=http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=4&containerAreaId=790499 |title=Area selected: Vale of White Horse (Non-Metropolitan District) |work=Neighbourhood Statistics: Full Dataset View |publisher=Office for National Statistics |access-date=1 April 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622111457/http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=4&containerAreaId=790499 |archive-date=22 June 2011 |df=dmy-all }}

| civil_parish = Little Coxwell

| shire_district = Vale of White Horse

| shire_county = Oxfordshire

| region = South East England

| country = England

| constituency_westminster = Witney

| post_town = Faringdon

| postcode_district = SN7

| postcode_area = SN

| dial_code = 01367

| website = [http://www.littlecoxwell.org.uk/ Welcome to Our Website]

}}

Little Coxwell is a village and civil parish in South East England, about {{convert|1.5|mi}} south of Faringdon and {{convert|0.8|mi}} east of Great Coxwell. Little Coxwell was part of Berkshire until the 1974 local government boundary changes transferred the Vale of White Horse to Oxfordshire.{{cite book |last=Arnold-Baker |first=C. |title=Local Government Act 1972 |year=1973 |publisher=Butterworths }}{{page needed|date=July 2013}} Cistercian monks of Beaulieu Abbey built the Church of England parish church of Saint Mary in the 12th century as a chapel of ease. Little Coxwell was a dependent chapelry of the ecclesiastical parish of Great Faringdon. In 1866 the civil parish was established.[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10007069# Vision of Britain website] The village has a public house, the Eagle Tavern.[http://www.eagletavern.co.uk/ The Eagle Tavern] The Hurlingham Polo Association, the governing body for polo in the UK, Ireland, and many other countries, has its office at Manor Farm, Little Coxwell.[http://www.hpa-polo.co.uk/default.asp Welcome to the Hurlingham Polo Association] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090907230210/http://www.hpa-polo.co.uk/default.asp |date=7 September 2009 }}