Kingston Blount

Kingston Blount is a village about 4 miles (6.4 km) southeast of Thame in South Oxfordshire, England. The village is a spring line settlement at the foot of the Chiltern Hills escarpment. The ancient pre-Roman Ridgeway and Icknield Way pass through the parish. The Ridgeway is now a National Trail.

Kingston Blount

Houses in Baker's Piece, Kingston Blount
Kingston Blount
Location within Oxfordshire
OS grid referenceSU7399
• London33 miles (53 km)
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townCHINNOR
Postcode districtOX39
Dialling code01844
PoliceThames Valley
FireOxfordshire
AmbulanceSouth Central
UK Parliament
WebsiteAston Rowant Parish Council

History

The Church of England parish church of Saint John was designed by Aston Webb and built in 1877.[1] It is red brick, has the nave and chancel under a single roof and a small south aisle.[1] The building is now a redundant church.

Cop Court is an early 18th-century house built around the remains of an earlier, probably 16th-century one.[1] On the south side is a medieval bastion from an even earlier building on the site.[1]

Economy and amenities

The village has one now closed public house, The Cherry Tree.[2] There is a large playing field where the village's main events are held. Kingston Blount has a Point-to-point course.[3]

Kingston Crossing Halt railway station served the village with connections to Princes Risborough until its closure.

C.J. Day Associates is an engineering business in Kingston Blount that specialises in biomass power plant for industry. Projects include a 5 MWe tyre fuel power plant in Portugal and wood chip and waste fuel projects in the UK. Current projects include proposed power stations in Bishops Castle and Tenbury Wells, both of which have attracted criticism.[4][5][6] Chris Day gave evidence on the subject to Parliament in 2004.[7]

References
  1. Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 675.
  2. The Cherry Tree Archived 20 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Kingston Blount Point to Point
  4. "Fears over power plant disruption". BBC News Online. 10 May 2007. Retrieved 16 June 2009.
  5. Bishop's Castle Group — The Community Against a Planned Biomass Incinerator
  6. Fry, Clare (10 August 2007). "Protestors Concern over Power Plant". Worcester News. Worcester: Newsquest. Retrieved 11 December 2011.
  7. "Examination of Witnesses (Questions 240 - 259)". House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology Minutes of evidence. 10 March 2004. Retrieved 11 December 2011.

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