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Oxton, North Yorkshire

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Oxton North Yorkshire geograph.org.uk 113905
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Oxton is a village and civil parish in the Selby District of North Yorkshire, England, and about 8 miles (13 km) south-west from the county town and city of York. The parish touches Bolton Percy, Grimston, Kirkby Wharfe with North Milford, Steeton and Tadcaster. In 2001 the parish had a population of 20.The name "Oxton" means 'Ox farm/settlement', and was recorded in the Domesday Book as "Ositone". The lord of the manor in 1086 was Osbern D'Arques, who had received the manor of a 2 ploughlands area from the 1066 lord Alwin, and who was also tenant-in-chief to king William I. Also listed within Oxton is Ouston Farm, of 2 ploughlands and a meadow of 4 acres (1.6 hectares), which was under the lordship of Toki, son of Auti in 1066, and which passed to Fulco, son of Rainfrid in 1086 under William de Percy, the tenant-in-chief to William. Within the parish is the deserted medieval village of Oulston.Oxton was formerly a township in the parish of Tadcaster, and in 1866 became a civil parish in its own right.There are two Grade II listed buildings in Oxton, the mid-18th-century Oxton Grange, and the early 18th-century Oxton Hall.

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St John the Baptist's Church, Kirkby Wharfe
St John the Baptist's Church, Kirkby Wharfe

St John the Baptist's Church is the parish church of Kirkby Wharfe, a village south-west of Tadcaster, in North Yorkshire, in England. The church was first built in the late 12th century, with the nave and parts of the south door surviving from this period. A vicarage was built in the 1240s. The church was extended and altered in the 13th and 14th centuries. The vicar was granted funds from Queen Anne's Bounty in 1757, and the church was restored in 1819. The church was again restored in 1860, with the exterior extensively rebuilt, under the patronage of Albert Denison, 1st Baron Londesborough. The church roof was replaced in the 1950s, and in 1967, it was Grade II* listed. The church is built of Magnesian Limestone and sandstone, with a Welsh slate roof. There is a west tower with two stages, supported by angle buttresses. It has a staircase turret to the south-west, it has lancet windows and Perpendicular windows above, and the tower is topped by battlements and gargoyles. The nave has three bays, with aisles and a south porch, and there is a two-bay chancel with a north chapel. There are a variety of windows, some original and containing fragments of 15th- and 16th-century glass, and others dating from the 1860 restoration. The priest's door to the chancel has a Tudor arch. Inside, there are round piers supporting pointed arches to the aisles, and the tower and chancel arches are also pointed. The font is Norman, and there is a 16th-century pierced screen in the north chapel. There are parts of three 10th-century crosses, and there is an early-19th century memorial depicting the Adoration of the Magi.