- Long Hanborough
Long Hanborough is a small village in
Oxfordshire ,England , on the A4095 betweenWitney and Woodstock.On
30 January 1965 Hanborough railway station was the destination for SirWinston Churchill 's coffin aboard a train hauled by Battle of Britain Class locomotive "Winston Churchill". [cite journal|author= Leigh, Chris|title=A State Occasion|journal=Steam World|issue=108|pages=50–1|date=1996 June] From Hanborough the funeral cortege proceeded by road to the parish church in nearbyBladon , where the burial took place.Oxford Bus Museum is adjacent to the railway station.The village is home to two churches (1 Anglican, 1 Methodist), a primary school (Hanborough Manor CE School), a Co-Operative shop, a butcher's, a hair dresser's, a Post Office, a dentist, a doctor's surgery, a Cycle shop and in keeping with many villages is also home to numerous pubs, 6 in all. The village Co-operative was expanded recently, and it is now a small supermarket located on the main road between Witney and Woodstock.
Manor School Web Site: http://hanborough-manor.oxon.digitalbrain.com/oxon/schools/hanborough-manor/frontpage/home/
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