Photos of the village
Weston-on-the-Green
is just south of Akeman Street, the Roman road from Corinium to Silchester.
In later years the roads to Bicester and Northampton were both turnpikes,
with a tollgate at Weston.
In 1847
a William Marriott was fined five shillings and costs for preventing
the Rev. A. H. Matthews, the magistrate, from passing him on the turnpike
by driving on the wrong side of the road.
In modern
times Weston-on-the-Green is still situated on or near main arterial
roads, having as its main road through the village the A43, which
feeds on to the extremely busy A34 to link with the M40, or in the
other direction to Oxford.
Weston-on-the-Green
has always been a farming community and in the 19th century many women
supplemented the family income by lace-making. Some of their lace
was sold by a woman called Dinah Tuffrey, who acted as the local carrier
and peddler.
North
of the village on the A43 is Weston airfield, built in the First World
War, and now used by a civilian gliding club and by the RAF for parachute
training.
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on the thumbnails on the right to view each photo at a larger size.
