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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 reference	SU7399
• London	33 miles (53 km)
Civil parish	Aston Rowant
District	South Oxfordshire
Shire county	Oxfordshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CHINNOR
Postcode district	OX39
Dialling code	01844
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Oxfordshire
Ambulance	South Central
UK Parliament	Henley
Website	Aston Rowant Parish Council
List of places UK England Oxfordshire 51.689°N 0.931°W / 51.689; -0.931

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 had one 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.^{[citation needed]} 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

Sources and further reading

• Lobel, Mary D, ed. (1964). A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 8: Lewknor and Pyrton Hundreds. Victoria County History. pp. 16–43.
• Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 675. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.

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