Postcombe is a village in the civil parish of Lewknor. It is about south of Thame in

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and about 2 miles (3.2 km) from Lewknor. It is on the A40 road with the

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to the east and the

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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, Royalist cavalry based in Oxford attacked a Parliamentary 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.

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