Bix, Oxfordshire

Coordinates: 51°33′44″N 0°57′04″W / 51.5622°N 0.9511°W / 51.5622; -0.9511

Bix
Parish church of St. James
Bix  Bix shown within Oxfordshire
OS grid reference	SU7285
Parish	Bix and Assendon
District	South Oxfordshire
Shire county	Oxfordshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Postcode district	RG9
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Oxfordshire
Ambulance	South Central
EU Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Henley
Website	Bix and Assendon website
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Bix is a village in the civil parish of Bix and Assendon in South Oxfordshire, about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) northwest of Henley-on-Thames. The village is about 130 metres above sea level in the Chiltern Hills.

History

The remains of a Roman farmhouse were found during an excavation of the common in 1955, as well as later Saxon remains. These were not considered to be worth retaining in an exposed condition and so the area was re-covered.^{[citation needed]}

There were originally two villages: Bix Brand and Bix Gibwyn.^[1] The toponym has at various times been Byxe and Bixa. In 1086 the Domesday Book recorded Bixa as part of the Hundred of Binfield.

Bix Brand's original parish church of Saint James is a small Norman building in Bix Bottom, about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the village. It has a nave, chancel and several Norman lancet windows. Later additions include the Perpendicular style east window and a Perpendicular window in the south wall. In 1874 the architect John Gibson completed the village's new Church of England parish church, closer to the centre of the village, also dedicated to Saint James. The old church was abandoned in 1875 and is now a ruin.^[2][3]

Bix Manor has a 17th century barn.

The road between Henley and Wallingford passes through the parish. It was made into a turnpike in 1736 and ceased to be a turnpike in 1873.^[4] The hill between Fair Mile, on the edge of Henley, and Bix was made a dual carriageway in 1937, one of the earliest dual carriageways in the country.^[5] It is now classified the A4130.

Amenities

The Warburg nature reserve in Bix Bottom is one of the largest that the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust owns and manages in Oxfordshire. It has an important population of Chiltern flora and fauna.^[6]

Bix had a public house, the Fox Inn, but this has ceased trading.

Bibliography

• Pevsner, Nikolaus; Sherwood, Jennifer (1974). The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin. pp. 457–458. ISBN 0 14 071045 0. 

External links

• Assendon e-Museum

References

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