Aston Rowant

Coordinates: 51°41′14″N 0°56′59″W / 51.6873°N 0.9496°W / 51.6873; -0.9496

Aston Rowant
Parish church of St Peter and St Paul
Aston Rowant shown within Oxfordshire
Population	815 (2001 census)
OS grid reference	SU7299
Parish	Aston Rowant
District	South Oxfordshire
Shire county	Oxfordshire
Region	South East
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Postcode district	OX49
Dialling code	01844
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Oxfordshire
Ambulance	South Central
European Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Henley
List of places: UK • England • Oxfordshire

Aston Rowant is a village and civil parish about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) south of Thame in South Oxfordshire, England. The parish includes the villages of Aston Rowant and Kingston Blount, and borders Buckinghamshire to the southeast.

Aston Rowant is close to the ancient Lower Icknield Way.

The Church of England parish church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul is Norman and dates from around 1100.^[1] It was restored by the architect E.G. Bruton in 1884.^[2]

The village has a primary school.^[3]

The Watlington and Princes Risborough Railway was built in 1872 and provided Aston Rowant railway station about 0.5 miles (800 m) from the village. The line was operated by the Great Western Railway until nationalisation in 1948. British Railways withdrew passenger services in 1957 and closed Aston Rowant goods yard in 1961. The track has since been dismantled.

The railway station has featured in four films:

• The Captive Heart (1946)
• My Brother Jonathan (1947)
• My Brother's Keeper (1948)
• Portrait of Clare (1950)

Excerpts of these films can be found at The Watlington Branch Line blog.

The village has a cricket club.^[4]

Bibliography

• Lobel, Mary D. (1969). A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 8: Lewknor and Pyrton Hundreds. p. 16-43. 
• Pevsner, Nikolaus; Sherwood, Jennifer (1974). The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin. p. 426-427. ISBN 0 14 071045 0. 

References

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