Type: | Civil parish |
Coordinates: | 51.758°N -1.165°W |
Civil Parish: | Forest Hill with Shotover |
Shire District: | South Oxfordshire |
Shire County: | Oxfordshire |
Region: | South East England |
Country: | England |
Post Town: | Oxford |
Postcode Area: | OX |
Postcode District: | OX33 |
Dial Code: | 01865 |
Constituency Westminster: | Henley and Thame |
Forest Hill with Shotover is a civil parish covering 7.56 km2 of South Oxfordshire approximately centred east of Oxford. Its population in 2011 was 856, almost exclusively in the villages of Forest Hill, hamlets of Shotover Cleve and Shotover Edge. It includes a country estate at Shotover Park. Forest Hill with Shotover was formed in 1881 by the merger of three smaller civil parishes: Forest Hill, Shotover and Shotover Hill Place.[1] [2]
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 5: Bullingdon Hundred
. 1957 . 122–134.