Newton Purcell with Shelswell
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Newton Purcell with Shelswell is a civil parish in Oxfordshire
, England
. It was formed in 1932 by merger of the parishes of Newton Purcell
and Shelswell
.
Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire is a county in the South East region of England, bordering on Warwickshire and Northamptonshire , Buckinghamshire , Berkshire , Wiltshire and Gloucestershire ....
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. It was formed in 1932 by merger of the parishes of Newton Purcell
Newton Purcell
Newton Purcell is a village in Newton Purcell with Shelswell civil parish in Oxfordshire, southeast of Brackley in neighbouring Northamptonshire.-Early history:...
and Shelswell
Shelswell
Shelswell is a hamlet in Oxfordshire about south of Brackley in neighbouring Northamptonshire.-Manor:Shelswell's toponym comes from Old English and suggest's that the settlement may originally have been the well belonging to Scield, a Saxon settler. The spring that gave rise to this well is no...
.