Kidlington is a large village and civil parish between the River Cherwell and the Oxford Canal, 5 miles (8 km) north of Oxford and 7.5 miles (12 km) southwest of Bicester. Kidlington’s toponym is derived from the Old English Cudelinga tun: the tun (settlement) of the “Kidlings” (sons) of Cydel-hence. The Domesday Book in 1086 mentions Chedelintone and by 1214 the spelling Kedelinton appears in a Calendar of Bodleian Charters.
The Church of England parish church of St. Mary the Virgin is a grade one listed building dating from 1220 with fine medieval stained glass and a 220-foot (67 m) spire known as “Our Lady’s Needle”. The bell tower has a peal of eight bells. There is evidence of a church existing on the site from AD 1073. Behind the church there are archaeological remains of a three-sided moat, and a causeway has recently been discovered which is possibly of Roman origin. St. Mary’s Rectory is Tudor.
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