Great Bourton
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Great Bourton is a village in Oxfordshire in England, around three miles north of Banbury.
Great Bourton has a pub, The Bell, a village hall and a church, All Saints, built in 1863. The bell tower of All Saints church is situated away from the church. There are reportedly only three churches in the UK where this is the case.
During the Battle of Cropredy Bridge in 1644, the Parliamentarian army led by General Waller, saw that the royalist army were strung out from their position on the higher ground near to Great Bourton and and took the decision to attack. Waller's forces were pushed back to Great Bourton when they met the Earl of Northampton's brigade of horses.
