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The Cooper School
The Cooper School is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in the northern side of Bicester, Oxfordshire. History Previously a community school administered by Oxfordshire County Council, the school became a specialist science college in 2005. The Cooper School converted to academy status on 1 July 2014 within Bernwode Schools Trust, however, the school continues to coordinate with Oxfordshire County Council for admissions. The Cooper School is currently rated 'Requires improvement' by Ofsted after an inspection in January 2023 Catchment area Most of its students come from the north and east of Bicester and surrounding villages which include, amongst others, Charlton-on-Otmoor, Launton, Finmere, Fringford, Stratton Audley Stratton Audley is a village and civil parish about northeast of Bicester in Oxfordshire, England. Manor The Domesday Book of 1086 records that Robert D'Oyly held five hides of land at Stratton. Like many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Churchill Road
Churchill Road (and its northern section as Churchill Road North) is an arterial road in the inner northern suburbs of Adelaide, Australia. Route Churchill Road North commences at the intersection of Port Wakefield Road and Montague Roads in Cavan and heads southwest and south to the intersection of Grand Junction and Cavan Roads. Heading directly south as Churchill Road, it travels through Kilburn and Prospect, before meeting with Torrens Road in Ovingham Ovingham is a civil parish and village in the Tyne Valley of south Northumberland, England. It lies on the River Tyne east of Hexham with neighbours Prudhoe, Ovington, Wylam and Stocksfield. The River Tyne provided an obstacle between O .... Churchill Road was previously known as Lower North Road. Major intersections See also References Roads in Adelaide {{Australia-road-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hethe
Hethe is a village and civil parish about north of Bicester in Oxfordshire, England. Manor The village's toponym comes from the Old English ''hæð'' meaning "heath, uncultivated ground".Lobel, 1959, pages 174-181 Before and after the Norman Conquest of England Wulfward the White, a thegn of King Edward the Confessor's Queen Edith, owned the manor of Hethe. However, by 1086 William the Conqueror had granted the manor to Geoffrey de Montbray, who was both Bishop of Coutances and also one of William's senior military commanders. By the 12th century the manor belonged to the Earls of Gloucester, with whom it stayed until the 4th Earl of Gloucester died without a successor in 1314. In 1347 the manor passed to the 1st Earl of Stafford. It remained with the Staffords (who from 1402 were also Dukes of Buckingham) until 1521, when Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham was executed for treason and his properties were attainted to the Crown. Somewhen after 1167 St Bartholomew's Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stratton Audley
Stratton Audley is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish about northeast of Bicester in Oxfordshire, England. Manor The Domesday Book of 1086 records that Robert D'Oyly held five Hide (unit), hides of land at Stratton. Like many D'Oyly Manorialism, manors, Stratton later became part of the Honour of Wallingford. The Honour of Wallingford became part of the Earl of Cornwall#Earls of Cornwall, 7th creation (1225), Earldom of Cornwall and thence in the 15th century a number of former Wallingford manors became part of the William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, Duke of Suffolk's Honour of Ewelme. The Audley family became tenants of the manor by marriage in 1244 and built a moated castle there by 1263. Stratton remained in the Audley family until Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester, Hugh Audley, Earl of Gloucester died in 1347 leaving the manor to his daughter Margaret, wife of Ralph de Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford. The castle does not survive, but its remains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fringford
Fringford is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about northeast of Bicester. The parish is bounded to the east by the Roman road that linked Alchester Roman Town with Roman Towcester, to the south by a brook that joins the River Bure, to the north mostly by a brook that is a tributary of the River Great Ouse, and to the west by field boundaries. Fringford village is in the north of the parish, surrounded on two sides by a bend in the tributary of the Great Ouse. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 602. Archaeology At the southern edge of the parish, beside the tributary of the River Bure, there may have been a Roman villa. The site is only about west of the Roman road. It is now occupied by Fringford Lodge. Manor Fringford's toponym is derived from an Old English tribal or family name ''Ferring'' or ''Fcaring'' and the ford that formed the only crossing-point of the narrow stream that flows around three sides of the village. An earlier form of the na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finmere
Finmere is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, south of the River Great Ouse. It is on the county boundary with Buckinghamshire, almost west of Buckingham and just over east of Brackley in Northamptonshire. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 466. Archaeology In 2000 archaeologists found evidence of Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman activity in Finmere Quarry about west of the village. Five early Bronze Age cremation pits were excavated, and from one pit two collared urns were recovered. The cremations were dated to about 2040 to 1880 BC. The site of a late Iron Age settlement was found west of the cremation pits and just east of the trackbed of the former Great Central Main Line railway. The settlement consisted originally of a number of roundhouses packed close together in a straight line, and then developed in phases with later structures overlapping the sites of some of the earlier ones. Enclosures, presumably to contain livestock, were created ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Launton
Launton is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish on the eastern outskirts of Bicester, Oxfordshire, England. The United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 1,204. Manor King Edward the Confessor granted the Manorialism, manor of Launton to Westminster Abbey in 1065. The abbey surrendered the manor to the Crown when it was suppressed in the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1540, but in 1542 the Crown granted Launton to the abbey's Dean and Chapter. Mary I of England, Mary I restored the Catholic Church, Roman Catholic church in England so in 1556 Launton was surrendered to the Crown, who restored it to the reinstated abbott and convent of Westminster. Elizabeth I of England, Elizabeth I restored the English Reformation so in 1560 Launton was surrendered to the Crown for a third time, who again granted it to the Dean and Chapter. In 1649 the Commonwealth of England assigned Launton to Westminster School. In 1860 the lands of the Dea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlton-on-Otmoor
Charlton-on-Otmoor is a village and civil parish about NE of Oxford and SW of Bicester in Oxfordshire, England. The village, one of the seven "towns" of Otmoor, is on the northern edge of the moor on a ridge of Cornbrash. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 449. Toponym The Domesday Book of 1086 records the place-name as ''Cerlentone''. The chronicler Orderic Vitalis recorded that in 1081 it was spelt ''Cherlentona'' or ''Charlentone''. In about 1190 a charter of Thame Abbey recorded it as ''Cherlenton'' and a charter of Sandford Preceptory recorded it as ''Cherleton''. A Close Roll from 1245 records the name as ''Cherlton''. The Hundred Rolls of 1278–79 record it as ''Cherleton' super Ottemor''. Assize rolls from 1285 variously record it as ''Cherlintone'', ''Cheriltone'', ''Chereltone'' and ''Chureltone''. An entry in the Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem for 1314 records it as ''Cherleton upon Ottemour'' and a Close Roll from 1315 records it as '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxfordshire County Council
Oxfordshire County Council is the county council (upper-tier local authority) for the non-metropolitan county of Oxfordshire in the South East of England. It is an elected body responsible for some local government services in the county, including education (schools, libraries and youth services), social services, public health, highway maintenance, waste disposal, emergency planning, consumer protection and town and country planning for matters to do with minerals, waste, highways and education. It is one of the largest employers in Oxfordshire and has a gross expenditure budget of £856.2 million for the 2021–22 financial year. History County councils were first introduced in England and Wales with full powers from 22 September 1889 as a result of the Local Government Act 1888, taking over administrative functions until then carried out by the unelected quarter sessions. The areas they covered were termed administrative counties and were not in all cases identical to the tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bicester
Bicester ( ) is a historical market towngarden town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Cherwell (district), Cherwell district of northeastern Oxfordshire in Southern England that also comprises an Eco-towns, eco town at North West Bicester, North-East Bicester and self-build village aGraven Hill Its local market continues to thrive and is now located on Sheep Street, a very wide pedestrian zone in the Conservation area (United Kingdom), conservation area of the town. Bicester is also known for Bicester Village, a nearby shopping centre selling discounted branded clothing. Between 1951 and 2001 this historic market centre was one of the fastest-growing towns in Oxfordshire. Development has been favoured by its proximity to junction 9 of the M40 motorway linking it to London, Birmingham and Banbury. It has good road links to Oxford, Kidlington, Brackley, Buckingham, Aylesbury and Witney and railway stations on two different lines: and . It has its own civil parish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Community School (England And Wales)
A community school in England and Wales is a type of state-funded school in which the local education authority employs the school's staff, is responsible for the school's admissions and owns the school's estate. The formal use of this name to describe a school derives from the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.School Standards and Framework Act 1998 Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Board School 
In the mid-19th century, government involvement in schooling consisted of annual grants to the
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Bicester, Oxfordshire
Bicester ( ) is a historical market towngarden town and civil parish in the Cherwell district of northeastern Oxfordshire in Southern England that also comprises an eco town at North-East Bicester and self-build village aGraven Hill Its local market continues to thrive and is now located on Sheep Street, a very wide pedestrian zone in the conservation area of the town. Bicester is also known for Bicester Village, a nearby shopping centre selling discounted branded clothing. Between 1951 and 2001 this historic market centre was one of the fastest-growing towns in Oxfordshire. Development has been favoured by its proximity to junction 9 of the M40 motorway linking it to London, Birmingham and Banbury. It has good road links to Oxford, Kidlington, Brackley, Buckingham, Aylesbury and Witney and railway stations on two different lines: and . It has its own town council. In 2014 the Government, in concert with the local planning authority, planned for Bicester to become a garden c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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