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The village is one of the youngest and most dynamic communities in the Cotswolds with 30% of the population under 18. [6] Once known for its social life when it housed hundreds of young trainee pilots, the new village has well established community events such as firework displays. Upper Rissington Village Hall
Built during the 1930s, the station was opened in 1938 and closed in 1994. The married-quarters and main technical site were sold in 1996 (the former becoming the village of Upper Rissington). RAF Little Rissington has been retained by the Ministry of Defence and is known as Little Rissington Airfield.
Wyck Rissington is a village and civil parish in the picturesque Cotswold hills of Gloucestershire, England. The village is located 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north-east of Bourton-on-the-Water . The name 'Wyck Rissington' translates from the Saxon as "A building of special significance on a hill covered with brushwood".
Rissington is part of the name of four villages in Gloucestershire, England: Great Rissington; Little Rissington; Upper Rissington; Wyck Rissington; In addition: Rissington, Hawke's Bay in New Zealand
The village's last surviving pub is The Blacks Head Inn. It is a 16th-century building that was enlarged in the 17th and 18th centuries. [ 17 ] It was originally called The Blackamoor Head, probably after a black man-servant of the local Dashwood family, who is buried in Kirtlington chapel.
Village Clerk Sharon Will said when she started working for the village 36 years ago they were in the former village hall building that once was a fire station. She said the building was starting ...
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The Hall dates from ca.1700 [7] and is partly hidden behind a portico of ca.1750. There are two pavilions at each end. Miles Joseph Berkeley (1 April 1803 – 30 July 1889), an English cryptogamist and clergyman , and one of the founders of the science of plant pathology , was born in the Hall.