Lew, Oxfordshire

Lew is a small village within the civil parish of Curbridge and Lew, located about 2.5mi southwest of Witney in West Oxfordshire.HistoryEvidence of early human habitation in the parish includes a tumulus, probably Anglo-Saxon, on a high hill west of the village. The name of the village, recorded as Hlæwe in 984, means "tumulus" in Old English.Until the 19th century Lew was a township in the parish of Bampton. It became a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1857, known as Bampton Lew. The parish was united with Bampton in 1917, and since 1976 has formed part of the benefice of Bampton with Clanfield.Lew was made a separate civil parish in 1866.Parish churchThe Church of England parish church of the Holy Trinity was designed in a 13th-century style by the architect William Wilkinson and built in 1841.