Local Events
Warmington Open Gardens: 22nd June 2025,
https://ngs.org.uk/gardens/warmington-gardens-ox17/
Adult: £6.00 Child: £0.00 Opening times 13:00-17:00
Home-made teas at Warmington Village Hall. Refreshments in aid of St Michael’s Church & Warmington Village Hall.
Tysoe Heritage Research Group (THRG) https://tysoehistory.org.uk/ is hosting a series of talks on the topic of The Red Horse; Myth, History and Landscape in the Village Hall, Tysoe on Saturday July 19th. More details will be available later.
As part of the programme they are running a short story competition and hope that some might feel inspired to try their hand.
THE RED HORSE – SHORT STORY COMPETITION ABOUT THE RED HORSE
What do you know about the famous Red Horse of Tysoe? The Tysoe Heritage Research Group (THRG) is planning a major review with a series of talks to reveal more. In reality the horse
could have been created for any number of reasons.
The Tysoe Record invites you to use your imagination and write a short story about it.
There are plenty of stories about horses to inspire you, but not many of them involve horses carved into the landscape.
What was going on that led to the Red Horse being created? And what is it whispering to us on the wind from these hills?
HOW TO ENTER
The competition is open to children and adults.
Judging is divided into four categories:
Children:
1) up to 7 years, (100—500 words)
2) 8-11 years, (100—500 words)
3) 12-15 years, (300—1,000 words)
Adults
4) adults. (300—1,000 words)
Closing date 17th May 2025.
Please send your entries of a story about The Red Horse with your name, age and contact details to the Editor, tysoerecord@gmail.com or leave it in the post box at Tysoe Village Stores. The judges’ decision is final.
PRIZES
The winners will be announced and displayed at THRG’s ‘THE RED HORSE – MYTH, HISTORY AND LANDSCAPE’ on Saturday 19th July:
Overall winner: £50 token and the title ‘Red Horse Short Story Champion 2025′
Category winners: £20 book token per category
Prize winners will be announced at the THRG event on Saturday 19 th July 2025 where the awards will be presented. The panel of judges includes members of THRG and The Tysoe
Record and English experts. The overall winning story will be printed in the Tysoe Record.
Children are welcome to include drawings along with their stories.
Chipping Norton Theatre – Spitfire Girls
https://www.chippingnortontheatre.com/events/spitfire-girls May14- 17
New Year’s Eve, 1959.
Decades after answering the call, two women separated by the war meet again as the rain hammers down on the windows of The Spitfire pub.
As we hear their story, we’re transported back to a time when female pioneers defied expectations and soared through the skies.
Spitfire Girls is inspired by the extraordinary true stories of the women who dared to fly during WWII and the incredible bond that tied them together.
Funny and heart-warming, this is an untold story of strength, courage and loss. But above all else, hope.
Warmington Fete
After a bit of a gap the village will be having a fete this year on Saturday June 7 and the Heritage Group hope to have a stall. If you have anything that you would like to share…finds, photos, documents etc the get in touch and join in promoting the village and its history.
Archaeology lecture
Thursday 1st of May 2025 at 7pm
Basque Oak and Portuguese Wine: A Medieval Merchant Ship Reveals Her Secrets Join Dr. Toby Jones, nautical archaeologist and curator of the Newport Medieval Ship Project, as he delves into the significance of the remarkable 15th-century shipwreck discovered in 2002-2003. With its well-preserved hull and numerous artefacts, the ship offers a rare glimpse into the maritime world of the late medieval period, revealing insights into ship design, technological innovation, and the complexities of Anglo-Welsh/Iberian trade. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about one of the most extraordinary archaeological discoveries of the Age of Exploration.
Joining instruction to follow
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Keith Westcott has been busy preparing the launch of The DIF: Detectorist Institute and Foundation. Pete Hinton, who recently retired as Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists, has confirmed that he will serve as the Chair of the DIF Advisory Board.
Although a launch date is not yet announced, the site is now live, and welcoming new members -particularly hopeful that archaeologists, heritage professionals, and historians will join as Friends of the DIF. Their support will directly fund conservation projects through the Foundation. (uploaded 16th Sept 2024)
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Thanks to Liz the pdf files of the scanned transcriptions of
“The parish register 1636 to 1877”
have been added to the site. These will be found under “Documents” above.
You may find they will download to your “Download” section so you may have to open them from there.
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Tysoe Heritage Research Group (THRG)
In June 2023 some Members joined the Tysoe Heritage Research Group (THRG) in Tysoe Village Hall for the launch of their new website, https://tysoehistory.org.uk/
It’s an ongoing project so keep going back to it. It contains a wealth of information about the village and it’s history.
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The recent discovery of twin towers on the route of HS2 is featured in the Banbury Guardian, with links to the program on iPlayer.
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Time Team at Broughton
On YouTube there is a preview of the dig of the Roman Villa at Broughton Castle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmqVLK4YbLU
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Dig reveals domestic life in the iron age
Link to an article in The Guardian Sunday 14th February 2021:
Dig Ventures website: https://digventures.com/earth-trust/timeline
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Sacred Southam…..
Peter Christopher has had some thoughts about Southam. He has not included references, but nevertheless members might be interested in this short set of notes (sent out by e-mail to members) about Southam put together after studying Lidar (using National Library of Scotland side by side geo referenced maps ) which hints at a large circular enclosure at the confluence of the Itchen and Stowe rivers at Southam. This feature appears slightly larger than the circular enclosure at Prescote near Cropredy at a confluence along the Cherwell. There is much intriguing ‘evidence’ around this market town that makes for a good story when everything is added up.
If anyone is interested Peter can easily direct them to the sources used in the hopes this might encourage others to look into these matters further
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A link to the hoard of coins found in Warmington:
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Warmington Heritage did a project on Grove Farm a few years ago and there is a video on YouTube of Liz Newman speaking in 2012 about the Grove Farm project in a panel session entitled ‘Engaging With History’ at the Tenth Warwick Symposium on Parish Research, ‘Parish Studies Today’.
The link to the YouTube video is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2ajBOuu_Co
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Information required.
We are hoping to record how the village got it’s water supply in years gone by, including the use of springs, wells and hydraulic ram pumps (or any other methods of supply). Please use the “Contact Us” link at the bottom right of this page if you can help. Thank you.
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Edge Hill Light Railway
A new website for the EHLR has been created: ehlr.rocks This is an evolving website and any help with their research into the EHLR will be welcomed. Please have a look at this interesting web site.