Gallowstree Common is a

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, England, about north of

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. The village had a

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, the Reformation, which was controlled by the

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brewery. In 2023, the brewery sold the pub garden for housing and the pub is to be turned into a

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was chef at an earlier public house in the village, the Greyhound, which closed in 2009. In 2011, a Diamond Jubilee Pavilion was constructed at a recreation ground in the hamlet at a cost of £590,000; it hosts Kidmore End Cricket Club. The village has two woods: New Copse and Withy Copse.

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Villages in Oxfordshire South Oxfordshire District {{Oxfordshire-geo-stub

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