Postcombe is a village in the

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Lewknor Lewknor is a village and civil parish about south of Thame in Oxfordshire.The civil parish includes the villages of Postcombe and South Weston. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 663. Early history Iron Age and Roman era Tw ...

. It is about south of

Thame Thame is a market town and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about east of the city of Oxford and southwest of Aylesbury. It derives its name from the River Thame which flows along the north side of the town and forms part of the county border wi ...

in Oxfordshire and about 2 miles (3.2 km) from

. It is on the

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with the Chiltern Hills to the east and the M40 motorway just to the south. In 1971–73 the M40 Archaeological research group excavating a site at Postcombe found three Saxon graves, one of which was of a child. A bronze buckle in one of the graves dated the burials to the 7th century. On the morning of 18 June 1643,

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cavalry based in

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attacked a

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garrison based in the village, setting fire to some of the houses. The village has a public house, England's Rose, that was formerly The Feathers. There is also a filling station. The current Lord of the Manor is Nigel Ross Parsons.

External links

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Village community page

Visit South Oxfordshire

References

Villages in Oxfordshire {{Oxfordshire-geo-stub