Little Rollright

Little Rollright is a hamlet in the civil parish of Rollright, in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England. It is about 3 miles (5 km) northwest of Chipping Norton and is the village nearest to the megalithic Rollright Stones.

Little Rollright
St Philip's parish church
Little Rollright Location within Oxfordshire
OS grid reference	SP293301
Civil parish	Rollright
District	West Oxfordshire
Shire county	Oxfordshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Chipping Norton
Postcode district	OX7
Dialling code	01608
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Oxfordshire
Ambulance	South Central
UK Parliament	Witney
Website	Rollright Review
List of places UK England Oxfordshire 51.968°N 1.576°W / 51.968; -1.576

Little Rollright and neighbouring Great Rollright were historically separate parishes. They were merged into a single civil parish called Rollright in 1932.^[1] At the 1931 census (the last before the abolition of the parish), Little Rollright had a population of 10.^[2]

Toponym

An early spelling may be seen, its Latin form, as "Parva Rolrandryght" in 1446.^[3]

Parish church

The earliest parts of the Church of England parish church of Saint Philip are 13th-century, and include the chancel arch and buttresses. The present south windows of the chancel were inserted in the 15th century. The nave was rebuilt in the 16th century. The tower was built or rebuilt in 1617. The south porch and doorway, and a five-light window on the south side of the nave may be of the same date.^[4] Inside the church are two 17th-century monuments to members of the Dixon family. The church is a Grade II* listed building.^[5]

St Philip's is part of the ecclesiastical parish of Little Compton, Chastleton, Cornwell, Little Rollright and Salford.^[6] The ecclesiastical parish is part of the Chipping Norton benefice, along with the parishes of Chipping Norton with Over Norton, Churchill and Kingham.^[7]