Weston-on-the-Green

OXFORDSHIRE
ENGLAND


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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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