5-657: Lidstone is a hamlet on the River Glyme in Oxfordshire, about 3 miles (5 km) east of Chipping Norton. The hamlet is in Enstone civil parish , about 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles (2 km) west of Neat Enstone. In Round Hill Field on a ridge about 700 yards (640 m) south of Lidstone is a Bronze Age bowl barrow . It is 105 feet (32 m) in diameter and 2 feet (0.6 m) high. Originally it would have been substantially higher, and would have been created from spoil dug from
10-423: A circular quarry trench 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet (2 m) deep. The trench has become filled in but will have survived as a buried feature. The barrow is the most northerly of a line of three that form a line between Lidstone and the village of Spelsbury . It is a scheduled monument . In the middle of the barrow is an Ordnance Survey triangulation station . By 1279 there was a hide of land at Lidstone that
15-653: The Glyme is joined by a tributary, the River Dorn . The Glyme joins the Evenlode just south of the park near Bladon . The Glyme is dammed at Cleveley, Kiddington, Glympton and Blenheim. At Blenheim, "Capability" Brown used the river to form the lake in front of Blenheim Palace. The upper part of the Glyme Valley around the river's headwaters is a Site of Special Scientific Interest . The Glyme Valley Way footpath follows almost
20-577: The large iron waterwheel was left in place. This Oxfordshire location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . River Glyme The River Glyme is a river in Oxfordshire , England. It is a tributary of the River Evenlode . It rises about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Chipping Norton , and flows southeast past Old Chalford , Enstone , Kiddington , Glympton and Wootton , Woodstock and through Blenheim Park . At Wootton
25-462: Was part of the manor of Heythrop . Lidstone had a large watermill on the Glyme. It had the largest-diameter waterwheel in Oxfordshire: an overshot wheel 24 feet (7.3 m) in diameter and 4 feet (1.2 m) wide. Via a 15-foot (4.6 m) pitwheel it drove three pairs of millstones . The mill had its own bread oven. The mill was dismantled in 1976 and its machinery taken into storage, but
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