Lew is a village and civil parish about southwest of Witney in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 71. It shares a grouped parish council with the neighbouring parish of Curbridge.
History Evidence of early human habitation in the parish includes a tumulus, probably Anglo-Saxon, on a high hill west of the village., cited in Crossley & Currie 1996, pp. 90–93 The village's place-name, recorded as Hlæwe in 984, means "tumulus" in Old English. Until the 19th century Lew was a township in the parish of Bampton.Crossley & Currie 1996, pp. 6–8 It became a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1857, called Bampton Lew. The parish was united with Bampton in 1917,Crossley & Currie 1996, pp. 97–98 and since 1976 has formed part of the benefice of Bampton with Clanfield. Lew was made a separate civil parish in 1866.
Parish church The Church of England parish church of the Holy Trinity was designed in a 13th-century style by the architect William Wilkinson and built in 1841.
Governance There are three tiers of local government covering Curbridge, at parish, district and county level: Curbridge and Lew Parish Council, West Oxfordshire District Council, and Oxfordshire County Council. The parish council is a grouped parish council, also covering the neighbouring parish of Curbridge. The parish council meets at Curbridge Parish Hall.
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