Rollright Explained

Type:Civil parish
Coordinates:51.985°N -1.533°W
Civil Parish:Rollright
Shire District:West Oxfordshire
Shire County:Oxfordshire
Region:South East England
Country:England
Post Town:Chipping Norton
Postcode Area:OX
Postcode District:OX7
Dial Code:01608
Constituency Westminster:Banbury

Rollright is a civil parish in West Oxfordshire, England. It contains the villages of Great Rollright and Little Rollright and some of the prehistoric Rollright Stones. The parish is on West Oxfordshire's boundary with Cherwell District and Oxfordshire's boundary with Warwickshire.

Richard Coates has proposed that the name Rollright is from the Brittonic phrase *rodland rïx 'wheel enclosure groove', where *rïx 'groove' refers to the gorge near Great Rollright and *rodland 'wheel enclosure' refers to the King's Men circle of the Rollright Stones.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Invisible Britons: the view from linguistics. Coates. Richard. Richard Coates. 2004. sussex.ac.uk/. 7. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303232807/https://www.sussex.ac.uk/webteam/gateway/file.php?name=rc-britons.pdf&site=1. 3 March 2016.