Hampton Gay
Near Kidlington, Oxfordshire
Hampton Gay is a deserted village with a ruined manor house and a lonely church. On Christmas Eve 1874 a train crashed nearby at Shipton-on-Cherwell, killing 34 people.
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- When
- Manor burned 1887
- Where
- 51.8400, -1.2900
- Group
- Lost & drowned villages
Visiting
Reached by footpaths across the fields from Shipton-on-Cherwell.
The Ledger of Lost Britain
The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.
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