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I really like the web-site - the information about the history of the village is fascinating. I live on Lower End and occasionally fly my micro light in this direction to see the environs from the air. I've attached a photo that my passenger (Paul) managed to take the other day. We did try to take a few more of the entire village, but I was doing a tight right bank to avoid the Brize Norton MATZ and a quite large VC10 which I didn't want to get to know better. I'm not sure whether you'll have any use for the photo, but I'm hoping to have another go during the summer.

Regards
Helen Smith

I have visited your web site several times and continue to be fascinated about the village of Leafield. In July of 1999 I personally visited there. I was in the beautiful St. Michael's Church and explored the graveyard where some of my ancestors are buried. I am a SIFORD - one of the common Leafield names and am the great-great grandson of Matthew Siford born in Leafield in 1799. Matthew was very prolific having sired 16 children. One of them, Sylvester, was my great grandfather. He emigrated to the U.S. sometime in the late 19th century and settled on a farm near Baltimore, Maryland. His father, Matthew, on the other hand, converted to Mormonism and setlled in Nevada and lived to be 98 years old. Oddly, Matthew changed his name to Syphus. I am attaching pictures of my visit there in '99. I hope to get back there again. I am proud of my heritage. Leafield is absolutely charming! By the way, my great grandmother was an Eeles - also a common Leafield name.

Charles F. Siford

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