Tadmarton

{{infobox UK place

|official_name= Tadmarton

|static_image_name= St. Nicholas, Tadmarton - geograph.org.uk - 119493.jpg

|static_image_caption= St. Nicholas' parish church

|coordinates = {{coord|52.040|-1.429|display=inline,title}}

|os_grid_reference= SP3937

|label_position= bottom

|area_total_km2=8.38

|population= 541

|population_ref=(2011 Census)

|civil_parish= Tadmarton

|shire_district= Cherwell District

|shire_county=Oxfordshire

|region= South East England

|country= England

|post_town= Banbury

|postcode_district= OX15

|postcode_area= OX

|dial_code= 01295

|constituency_westminster= Banbury

|website= [https://www.tadmartonvillage.co.uk/ Tadmarton Village]

}}

Tadmarton is a village and civil parish about {{convert|4|mi}} west of Banbury, Oxfordshire. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 541,{{cite web |url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk |title=Area: Tadmarton (Parish): Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics |work=Neighbourhood Statistics |publisher=Office for National Statistics |access-date=4 May 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106173813/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/ |archive-date=6 January 2009 |df=dmy-all }} which is a 26% increase on the figure of 430 recorded by the 2001 Census.{{cite web |url=http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=798607&c=Tadmarton&d=16&e=15&g=480244&i=1001x1003x1004&o=1&m=0&r=1&s=1268097642821&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779 |title=Parish: Tadmarton CP (Parish): Parish Headcounts |work=Neighbourhood Statistics |publisher=Office for National Statistics |access-date=8 March 2010}}

Manor

The manor house has a 15th-century barn, believed to have been built for Abingdon Abbey.{{sfn|Lobel|Crossley|1969|pp=150-159}}

Parish church

The Church of England parish church of Saint Nicholas is early Norman. The building was enlarged and the bell tower added in the 13th century.{{sfn|Lobel|Crossley|1969|pp=150–159}} The church is a Grade I listed building.{{NHLE |num= 1369852 |desc=Church of St Nicholas, Main Street |accessdate=8 April 2012}}

The tower has a ring of six bells.[http://www.parishes.oxford.anglican.org/bell-ringers/banbury/Tadmarton.htm Oxford Diocesan Guild of Church Bell Ringers, Banbury Branch] Four were originally cast early in the 17th century, but two of these were re-cast in 1923 and 1939. A fifth bell was added in 1761 and the treble was added in 1947.{{sfn|Lobel|Crossley|1969|pp=150-159}}

Air crash

File:Aircraft of the Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Vickers Wellington. CH3027.jpg in flight. This is a B Mk II, a model slightly earlier than the B Mk III that crashed at Swalcliffe.]]

On 31 May 1944 a Vickers Wellington B Mk III bomber aircraft, BK157 of No. 12 Operational Training Unit RAF based at Chipping Warden in Northamptonshire, was on a training flight over north Oxfordshire when the pilot, F/O Donald Driver, DFM, made an evasive diving turn to port. The port wing collapsed and the aircraft crashed at Tadmarton.{{cite web |url= http://www.wartimetadmarton.co.uk/70th-anniversary-plane-crash.php |title=The Commemoration of the Wellington Crash |work=Tadmarton Village during the World Wars |access-date=1 September 2017}} It burst into flames and all seven crew were killed.{{cite web |url= http://www.aircrewremembered.com/raf1944/3/driverdonald.html |title=31.05.1944 No 12 O.T.U. Wellington III BK 157 KX-P P/O Donald Driver |work=Archive Report: Allied Forces |publisher=Aircrew Remembered |access-date=14 November 2015}}

The crew were members of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. F/O Driver and one of the air gunners are buried in Southam Road Cemetery in Banbury, which has a Commonwealth War Graves section. Other members of the crew are buried at Downpatrick in County Down, Hounslow in Middlesex, Huntly in Aberdeenshire, Titchfield in Hampshire and Wick in Caithness.

Amenities

Tadmarton has one public house, the Lampet Arms.[http://www.lampetarms.com/website/lampet/ The Lampet Arms]

References

Sources and further reading

{{Cite book |editor1-last=Lobel |editor1-first=Mary D |editor1-link=Mary Lobel |editor2-last=Crossley |editor2-first=Alan |series=Victoria County History |title=A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 9 |date=1969 |pages=150–159 }}
{{Cite book |last1=Sherwood |first1=Jennifer |last2=Pevsner |first2=Nikolaus |author-link2=Nikolaus Pevsner |series=The Buildings of England |title=Oxfordshire |date=1974 |publisher=Penguin Books |location=Harmondsworth |isbn=0-14-071045-0 |pages=803–804 }}

External links

[https://www.tadmartonvillage.co.uk/ Tadmarton Village]

Category:Civil parishes in Oxfordshire

Category:Villages in Oxfordshire