Great Bourton

infobox UK place
country = England
latitude= 52.10632
longitude= -1.33343
official_name= Great Bourton
shire_district= Cherwell
shire_county = Oxfordshire
region= South East England
constituency_westminster= Banbury
post_town = BANBURY
postcode_district = OX17
postcode_area= OX
dial_code=
os_grid_reference= SP457455

Great Bourton is a village in Oxfordshire in England, around three miles north of Banbury and close to the villages of Little Bourton and Cropredy.

Great Bourton has a pub, The Bell, a village hall (which used to be the Methodist Chapel) and a church, All Saints, built in 1863. The bell tower of All Saints is detached from the church and above the lych gate. There are reportedly only three churches in the UK where this is the case.

During the Battle of Cropredy Bridge in 1644, the Parliamentarian army led by General Waller, saw that the royalist army were strung out from their position on the higher ground near to Great Bourton and took the decision to attack. Waller's forces were pushed back to Great Bourton when they met the Earl of Northampton's brigade of horses.

Various Photographs

External links

* [http://www.bourtons.net/ Official Great Bourton and Little Bourton website]

* [http://www.boydhouse.com/alice/Southam/bourton.html Images of Great Bourton]