Retirement Properties Spotlight in Blewbury

Blewbury was mentioned as Blitberie in Domesday and belonged to the King with a church and a mill. The area has long been settled as evidenced by an Iron Age hill-fort on Blewburton Hill to the southwest of the village.There are a number of old cottages and timber-framed buildings and a trans-Norman church, St Michaels' with a 13th century south aisle. The village lies about six miles southwest of Wallingford and about three miles south of Didcot just below the Downs escarpment where a number of springs have formed. The ancient Ridgeway is thought to be Britains' oldest road and lies to the south.