Yarnton
Also known as Yarnton, Oxfordshire, Yarnton, Oxon
Yarnton is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire about southwest of Kidlington and northwest of Oxford. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 2,545.
Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Yarnton
- UK place.static_image_name
- Yarnton StBartholomew southeast.JPG
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St Bartholomew's parish church
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SP4712
- UK place.label_position
- left
- UK place.population
- 2545
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011 Census)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Yarnton
- UK place.shire_district
- Cherwell
- UK place.shire_county
- Oxfordshire
- UK place.region
- South East England
- UK place.country
- England
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- Archaeology
- Medieval settlement
- Yarnton Manor
- Parish church
- Economic and social history
- Amenities
- Gallery
- References
- Sources and further reading
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Yarnton is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire about southwest of Kidlington and northwest of Oxford. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 2,545.
==Archaeology== Early Bronze Age decorated beakers have been found in the parish. These suggest human activity in the area somewhere between 2700 and 1700 BC. A series of irregular late Iron Age to early Roman enclosures in the parish are known from cropmarks. Two are across.
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