Kidlington

Kidlington is a major village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, England, between the River Cherwell and the Oxford Canal, 5 miles north of Oxford and 71⁄2 miles south-west of Bicester. It remains officially a village despite its size. The 2011 census put the parish population at 13,723.
Kidlington's toponym derives from the Old English Cudelinga tun: the tun of the "Kidlings" of Cydel-hence. The Domesday Book in 1086 records Chedelintone. By 1214 the spelling Kedelinton appears in a Calendar of Bodleian Charters. The Church of England parish church of St Mary the Virgin dates from 1220, but there is evidence of a church on the site since 1073. St Mary's has fine medieval stained glass and a 165-foot spire known as "Our Lady's Needle". It is a Grade I listed building. The tower has a ring of eight bells. Richard III Chandler of Drayton Parslow, Buckinghamshire, cast the seventh bell in 1700. Abraham I Rudhall of Gloucester cast the tenor bell in 1708 and the fifth bell in 1715. Mears and Stainbank of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry cast the treble, second, third, fourth and sixth bells in 1897, the year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.

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