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FURTHER READING ON LEAFIELD

There are no books devoted entirely to the history of Leafield, but the following are useful printed sources which were used for this web site:

bulletD.M. Barratt and D.G. Vaisey, Oxfordshire: A Handbook for Students of Local History (1973).
bulletJ. Blair, Anglo Saxon Oxfordshire (1994).
bulletK. Chandler, "Ribbons, Bells and Squeaking Fiddles": The Social History of Morris Dancing in the English South Midlands 1660-1900 (1993).
bulletK. Chandler, "Morris Dancing in the South Midlands 1660-1900: A Chronological Gazetteer" (1993).
bulletM. Harris, Wychwood: The Secret Cotswold Forest (1991).
bulletM. Henig and P. Booth, Roman Oxfordshire (2000).
bulletC. Keighley, Discovering Wychwood (2000).
bulletJ. Kibble, Historical and Other Notes on Wychwood Forest and many of its Border Places (1928).
bulletN.L. Leyland and J.E. Troughton, Glove making in West Oxfordshire (1974).
bulletC. Miller (ed.), Rain and Ruin: the Diary of an Oxfordshire farmer, John Simpson Calvertt 1875-1900 (1983).
bulletJ. Orr, Agriculture in Oxfordshire (1916).
bulletB. Schumer, Wychwood: The Evolution of a Wooded Landscape (1984, revised 1999).
bulletN. Stebbing, J. Rhodes and M. Mellor, Oxfordshire Potteries (1980).
bulletM. Sturge Gretton, A Corner of the Cotswolds (1914).
bulletV. Watney, Cornbury and the Forest of Wychwood (1910).
bulletWychwood History, The Journal of the Wychwoods Local History Society (1985-date).
bulletA. Young, General View of the Agriculture of Oxfordshire (1813).

In addition to these books, information has been taken from manuscript sources in:

bulletthe Public Record Office; 
bullet the Oxfordshire Record Office; 
bullet the Bodleian Library, Oxford; 
bullet the Centre for Local Studies, Oxford; 
bullet the Gloucestershire Record Office; 
bullet Church House, Oxford; 
bullet National Society for Promoting Religious Education and papers currently in the custody of Leafield Parochial Church Council and Leafield School.