Stadhampton is a village and civil parish 5 miles (8 km) north of Wallingford, in South Oxfordshire

South Oxfordshire

South Oxfordshire is a local government district in Oxfordshire, England. Its council is based in Crowmarsh Gifford, just outside Wallingford....

, 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...

. Stadhampton village is on the A329 road

A329 road

The A329 is an east-west road in Southern England that runs from Wentworth in Surrey to Thame in Oxfordshire. The A329 starts at the A30 in Surrey and passes through the towns of Ascot, Bracknell, Wokingham, Earley, Reading, the village of Pangbourne, and Wallingford in Oxfordshire...

 and close to the River Thame

River Thame

The River Thame is a river in Southern England. It is a tributary of the larger and better-known River Thames.The general course of the River Thame is north-east to south-west and the distance from its source to the River Thames is about 40 miles...

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Location

The parish is about 10 miles (16.1 km) south-east of Oxford

Oxford

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 and includes the four villages of Stadhampton and Chiselhampton

Chiselhampton

Chiselhampton is a village on the River Thame about southeast of Oxford in Oxfordshire, England.-Toponym:"Chisel" is derived from the old English ceosel or cisel meaning "gravel" or "shingle", referring to the river gravel beside the Thame on which some of the village is built. In a document dated...

 and hamlets

Hamlet (place)

A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...

 of Brookhampton

Brookhampton

Brookhampton is a hamlet in the village and civil parish of Stadhampton, north of Wallingford, in South Oxfordshire, England.-References:...

 and Ascott. The River Thame runs through Chiselhampton. Stadhampton and Brookhampton are separated by a brook that runs through Chalgrove

Chalgrove

Chalgrove is a village and civil parish of some . It is in South Oxfordshire about southeast of Oxford. The parish includes the hamlet of Rofford and the former parish of Warpsgrove with which it merged in 1932....

 and joins the Thame just above Chiselhampton Bridge.

History

The name Stadhampton derives from Stodham or Stadham. The short form of the name is still sometimes used. Stodham is the more likely of these two derivatives: in Old English "Stod" was a stallion and "ham" referred to a home or farm. It is also possible that "Stod" is a proper name taken from the original owner of the farm as is the case with the nearby villages of "Witta's Farm" (Long & Little Wittenham). The "Stad" could also possibly be derived from the German word "Stadt" meaning town or village.

The Church of England parish church

Church of England parish church

A parish church in the Church of England is the church which acts as the religious centre for the people within the smallest and most basic Church of England administrative region, known as a parish.-Parishes in England:...

 of Saint John the Baptist

John the Baptist

John the Baptist was an itinerant preacher and a major religious figure mentioned in the Canonical gospels. He is described in the Gospel of Luke as a relative of Jesus, who led a movement of baptism at the Jordan River...

 dates from the 13th century and was rebuilt and enlarged by the Gothic Revival architect

Gothic Revival architecture

The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England...

 E.G. Bruton

Edward George Bruton

Edward George Bruton was a British Gothic Revival architect who practiced in Oxford. He was made an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1855 and a Fellow of the RIBA in 1861.-Work:...

 in 1875. Since the Reformation

English Reformation

The English Reformation was the series of events in 16th-century England by which the Church of England broke away from the authority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church....

 St. John's has always had the same parish clergy as St. Mary's, Stadhampton. The Welsh clergyman and writer John Roberts

John Roberts (Tremeirchion clergyman)

John Roberts was a Welsh Anglican priest and writer.-Life:Roberts was born in 1775 in Denbighshire, north Wales, and educated at Jesus College, Oxford between 1792 and 1796, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree...

 was priest of both parishes 1798-1803.

The village includes several buildings of architectural interest, including a number that are Grade II listed, such as the former Black Horse public house on Thame Road, dating back to 1751; Ash Cottage, School Lane - formed from three former farm workers cottages, now a single dwelling dating from the 17th century, and on the main street, a 17th-century bakehouse, thatched and built of coursed stone and bearing the date 1658. It was used as a bakery until about 1914.

Amenities

Most of the amenities of the parish are in the village, including Stadhampton Primary School. Stadhampton village school used to be at the bottom of School Lane but is now in Cratlands Close.

The parish has three pub-restaurants: The Coach & Horses Inn in Chiselhampton and The Crown and the Crazy Bear Hotel in Stadhampton. Stadhampton has a village store and post office at the petrol station.

The Oxfordshire Animal Sanctuary is in Stadhampton.