Rollright

Rollright
Civil parish
Rollright Location within Oxfordshire
Civil parish	Rollright
District	West Oxfordshire
Shire county	Oxfordshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Chipping Norton
Postcode district	OX7
Dialling code	01608
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Oxfordshire
Ambulance	South Central
UK Parliament	Banbury
List of places UK England Oxfordshire 51°59′06″N1°31′59″W / 51.985°N 1.533°W / 51.985; -1.533

Rollright is a civil parish in West Oxfordshire, England. It contains the villages of Great Rollright and Little Rollright and some of the prehistoric Rollright Stones. The parish is on West Oxfordshire's boundary with Cherwell District and Oxfordshire's boundary with Warwickshire.

Richard Coates has proposed that the name Rollright is from the Brittonic phrase *rodland rïx 'wheel enclosure groove', where *rïx 'groove' refers to the gorge near Great Rollright and *rodland 'wheel enclosure' refers to the King's Men circle of the Rollright Stones. ^[1]

References

1. Coates, Richard (2004). "Invisible Britons: the view from linguistics". sussex.ac.uk/. p. 7. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016.