Steventon, Oxfordshire
Steventon (listenⓘ) is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, England, about 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Abingdon and a similar distance west of Didcot.[3] In the 14th century St Michael's was rebuilt in Perpendicular Gothic style and apparently enlarged for Sir Hugh Calveley.The position of the tower is slightly unusual, on the south side of the nave and combined with the porch.The south aisle is of three and a half bays, parallelling the chancel and the eastern part of the nave, and having at its west end an arch into the bottom stage of the tower.The south side of the Causeway is lined by houses, a number of which are medieval timber-framed buildings.The route of the abandoned Wilts & Berks Canal passes through the west of Steventon parish, about 1+3⁄4 miles (2.8 km) west-northwest of the village.In 1845–46, the African-American abolitionist and fugitive slave Harriet Jacobs stayed for several months at the vicarage with Reverend William Vincent and his wife Anne, sister-in-law of the then-famous American author Nathaniel Parker Willis who employed her as a nanny for his young daughter.[17] Steventon has three public houses: the Cherry Tree[18] controlled by Wadworth Brewery, The Fox[19] and the North Star (see above).The North Star retains many 19th-century features, including a serving-hatch instead of a bar, and ale being poured directly from casks instead of drawn by hand pumps from a cellar.