Long Hanborough


Long Hanborough is a village in Hanborough civil parish, about northeast of Witney in West Oxfordshire, England. The village is the major settlement in Hanborough parish. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 2,630.

History

An infants' school was built in 1879 and enlarged in 1893. It closed in 1998 and was merged into Hanborough Manor School. The old school building has been converted to a private house.
Christ Church Church of England parish church was built in 1893. It is now part of the Benefice of Hanborough and Freeland.
The village also has a Methodist church.
The Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway was built to the north of Long Hanborough in 1853, with Handborough Station opened just to the east of Long Hanborough to serve the village. The franchisee Great Western Railway, offers a good service and an excellent commuter service to Oxford, London, Worcester and Hereford. In 1935 the Great Western Railway opened a small station on the Combe Road to serve, although as near Long Hanborough as Combe, and with a very limited service.
On 30 January 1965 a funeral train with the coffin of Sir Winston Churchill was hauled to Hanborough Station by Battle of Britain Class locomotive 34051 Winston Churchill. From Hanborough the funeral cortège proceeded to St Martin's Church, Bladon where the funeral took place.

Amenities

Long Hanborough has a post office, a GP's practice, a dental practice, a Co-Operative store, a fish and chip shop and a bicycle repair shop. It has two pubs, the Three Horseshoes and the George & Dragon. Until the 2000s it had two other pubs. In 2009 the Swan, in Millwood End, was a gastropub, but it has since ceased trading and is now a private home. The Bell was controlled by Greene King Brewery but is no longer trading.
bus at Oxford Bus Museum, next to Hanborough railway station
The parish still has a primary school: Hanborough Manor Church of England School.
Next to Hanborough railway station are Oxford Bus Museum and the Morris Motors Museum. The bus museum has a collection of 40 historic buses and coaches that operated in Oxfordshire, plus relics of Oxford's former horse tramways. The Morris Motors museum has a dozen historic vehicles built by Nuffield Organization companies, mainly Morris Motors.
Hanborough has a Women's Institute.

Buses

Long Hanborough has one bus service run by Stagecoach in Oxfordshire. Route 233 runs twice an hour, Mondays to Saturdays between Woodstock and Burford via Long Hanborough and Witney.
Route 233 passes Hanborough rail station. However, Long Hanborough has no evening, Sunday or bank holiday bus service.