Sibford Ferris is a village and

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about west of

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in Oxfordshire. It is on the south side of the Sib valley opposite its larger sister village, Sibford Gower. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 476.

History

Sibford Ferris was part of the parish of

Swalcliffe Swalcliffe is a village and civil parish about west of Banbury in Oxfordshire. The parish is about long north–south and about east–west. The 2011 Census recorded the population of the modern Swalcliffe parish as 210. The toponym "Swalc ...

until 1841, when a new ecclesiastical

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of Sibford Gower, with Sibford Ferris and Burdrop was created. The

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of the

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in Burdrop was built in 1840 to serve the new parish. Sibford Ferris

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was built in the 17th century and remodelled in the 18th century. In 1842 the

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extended the house and converted it into a boarding school,

Sibford School Sibford School is a British co-educational independent school in Sibford Ferris, west of Banbury in north Oxfordshire, linked with the Religious Society of Friends. The school has both day and boarding pupils between the ages of 3 and 18. It i ...

. In the 1930s the main part of the school relocated to buildings south of the village. In the early 2000s the manor was sold for private housing. There is a water mill on the Sib stream at Temple Mill Farm about southwest of the village. It was built in 1830. Home Close was designed and built in traditional

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style by the Arts and Crafts movement architect M. H.

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in 1911.

Amenities

Sibford Ferris has a shop and sub-post office that serves all three villages.

References

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External links

The Sibfords village website
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