Minster Lovell travel guide

Minster Lovell is an English village in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds, by the river Windrush.
The nearest station is Charlbury railway station on the Cotswold Line.
Minster Lovell is made up of three parts: Old Minster, which includes St Kenelm's Church, Minster Lovell Hall and the Old Swan Inn, Little Minster, and New Minster. A large part of New Minster is the Charterville Allotments, which were set up by the Chartist movement between 1847 - 52. It is the third and largest of the Chartist estates. 300 acres divided were into 80 smallholdings with model cottages. 40 oxen and 18 pigs were provided to the 'winners' of the plots, along with manure, firewood and seed. The area is still known as Charterville Allotments, and the original plots still survive as freehold bungalows set in large gardens. (...) more....

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