Islip

The village of Islip is in between Bicester and Oxford in the centre of the county of Oxfordshire.

The Swan Inn

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County:	Oxfordshire
District:	Cherwell
Population:	652 (2011 census)

The village has existed since Saxon times and most notably was the birthplace of Saint (and King) Edward the Confessor in 1004CE. Remains of a Roman villa have also been found nearby showing the area has been inhabited for millennia.

In the Domesday Book Islip was recorded as having a water mill and had a predominantly agricultural economy. The London-Worcester Road forded, and later crossed by a bridge, the river Ray at Islip. This gave Islip a strategic importance during the Civil War with both sides occupying the village at different times. The village became a stop on a coaching route on the London-Worcester Road and gained a number of coaching inns.

Islip gained it's railway station in 1850. The station was closed in 1967 but re-opened in 1989. The church of St Nicholas is Norman and dates from 1200 (Edward the Confessor was baptised in an earlier church in Islip).

The village has a number of old road sign posts