page_title: Cumnor
section_title: Amenities
hierarchical_section_title: Cumnor / Amenities
caption_attribution_description: The Bear and Ragged Staff, Cumnor Situated at the west end of the village, this is a pub and restaurant dating back to the 14th century.
context_page_description: Cumnor is a village and civil parish 3 ¹⁄₂ miles west of the centre of Oxford, England. The village is about 2 miles southwest of Botley and its centre is west of the A420 road to Swindon.
  Cumnor parish includes Cumnor Hill, Chawley, the Dean Court area on the edge of Botley and the outlying settlements of Chilswell, Farmoor, Filchampstead and Swinford. The parish was part of Berkshire until the 1974 local government boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 5,755.
context_section_description: Cumnor has two public houses, the Vine and the Bear and Ragged Staff. It has a butcher, a hairdresser, a sub-post office and greengrocer and a complementary health clinic. The newsagent closed in 2018. It has three churches: the Church of England parish church of St Michael in the centre of the village, Cumnor United Reformed Church in Leys Road and Living Stones Christian Fellowship which meets in the Primary School.
  The village has football and cricket clubs, both located on Appleton Road.
  Cumnor Primary School has produced many notable pupils who have attended schools such as Matthew Arnold School, Abingdon School, Magdalen College School, Oxford High School for Girls, Our Lady's Abingdon and the School of St Helen and St Katharine in Abingdon. The Oxford School of Music is in Cumnor Hill.
  Notable residents, as of October 2008, included novelist Philip Pullman and celebrity chef Sophie Grigson. The composer and conductor Christopher Whelen lived here for several years until his death in 1993.
caption: The Bear and Ragged Staff public house.
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