Juniper Hill Explained

Official Name:Juniper Hill
Label Position:bottom
Coordinates:51.988°N -1.158°W
Os Grid Reference:SP579324
Civil Parish:Cottisford
Shire District:Cherwell
Shire County:Oxfordshire
Region:South East England
Country:England
Post Town:Brackley
Postcode District:NN13
Postcode Area:NN
Dial Code:01280
Constituency Westminster:Banbury

Juniper Hill is a hamlet in the civil parish of Cottisford in Oxfordshire, England, 2miles south of Brackley in neighbouring Northamptonshire.

Juniper Hill was named after the common juniper, Juniperus communis, which originally grew in the area.[1] In 1754, there were only two cottages in the area,[1] but on the 1841 census there are 16 households in the village, and by 1901 25. The local inn, established about 1860, was the Fox.[1]

Flora Thompson was born in Juniper Hill in 1876. She fictionalised the hamlet as Lark Rise in her Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Parishes: Cottisford . Mary D. Lobel . Institute of Historical Research . 1959 . A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 6 . 22 November 2013 .