page_title: Wendlebury
section_title: Social and economic history
hierarchical_section_title: Wendlebury / Social and economic history
caption_attribution_description: English: Church of England parish church of St Giles, Wendlebury: north transept, viewed from the north
context_page_description: Wendlebury is a village and civil parish about 2 miles southwest of Bicester and about ¹⁄₂ mile from Junction 9 of the M40. A stream flows through the centre of the village, parallel with the main street. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 421.
  The toponym is derived from Old English, meaning the burh of a Saxon named Wændel.
context_section_description: Wendlebury has one public house, the Red Lion. It was built in the 17th century and seems to have been trading as an inn by 1732. In 1790 a farmer from Merton started a brewery in the village but the business failed and in 1809 was put up for sale. A Bicester brewer bought it in 1820.
  An open field system of farming continued in the parish until 1801, when its common lands were enclosed by Act of Parliament. 1,160 acres (470 ha) of land were enclosed, of which 500 acres (200 ha) were awarded to the lord of the manor, Thomas Coker.
  Rev. George Dupuis, who was rector from 1789–1839, farmed Wendlebury's 25 acres (10 ha) of glebe himself. When Wendlebury was enclosed the tithes were commuted for 189 acres (76 ha) of land. This gave Dupuis more space in which to exercise improved farming techniques, including a seven-year crop rotation.
  A National School was opened in 1850 and new school buildings for it were completed in 1863. In 1927 it was reorganised as a junior school, with pupils of secondary school age thereafter going to Bicester. It became a controlled school in 1952.
  The Oxford to Bletchley railway, completed in 1851 as part of the Buckinghamshire Railway, passes through the parish. The London and North Western Railway took over the Buckinghamshire Railway in 1879 and opened Wendlebury Halt southeast of the village in 1905. The Railways Act 1921 made the LNWR part of the new London, Midland and Scottish Railway, which closed Wendlebury Halt in 1926. A new line between Oxford, Bicester Village and London Marylebone has been opened and offers an excellent service. The line's nearest station to Wendlebury is now Bicester Village, 2 miles (3 km) away.
caption: St, Giles' north transept, seen from the north
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