Hook Norton is a beautiful village in North Oxfordshire. Here you will find information on the wide variety of village groups and services on offer, as well as information on Hook Norton’s History, and all kinds of useful local information. We also host the excellent 1946 documentary on Hook Norton and the surrounding area 24 Square Miles.

2025年1月30日 · The roads around Hook Norton are in a particularly poor state of repair at the moment. Help us to report these issues to the County Council by clicking the sign to the right, and see which problems have already been reported below.

2025年2月7日 · The exhibition space shows life in Hook Norton as it was in years gone by and how it has changed over the centuries, using objects donated by local people and images and documents from the extensive archive.

2025年2月7日 · Hook Norton is a village in north Oxfordshire. It is between the market towns of Banbury and Chipping Norton, and has a population of about 2,000. The village name is believed to come from the ruler called Hook, whilst Norton is a corruption of ora-tun meaning a settlement (tun) on the side of a hill (ora), hence Hook Norton.

You may like to take your explorations a little farther afield, and hunt out the evidences of Hook Norton’s brief industrialised past. We currently provide a brief guide to the railway that ran through Hook Norton between 1887 and 1963, with its two great viaducts spanning our two small valleys to the east and it cuttings, which are now ...

4 天之前 · For details of Hook Norton’s library including location and opening hours please visit this website: https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/residents/leisure-and-culture/libraries/find-library/hook-norton-library

The roads around Hook Norton are in a particularly poor state of repair at the moment. Help us to report these issues to the County Council by clicking the sign to the right, and see which problems have already been reported below.

Hook Norton inevitably derives its character and identity from the past – its own past as a community, the past of the wider world it lives in, and the individual pasts of the people who have lived here.

The most distinguishing historical characteristic of Hook Norton has been not the “foolishness” of its inhabitants but the open quality of village life. English historians have long distinguished between “closed” villages – dominated by squire and parson, usually monolithic, conservative and prosperous – and “open” villages ...

2025年2月7日 · “HOOK-NORTON, a village and a parish in Banbury district, Oxford. The village stands on a branch of the river Swere, 2 miles E of the boundary with Warwick, and 5 NE of Chipping-Norton r. station; and has a postoffice under …