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Freeland's name derives from the Old English word, fyrth, meaning a wood and the village developed as a ribbon community along the old road between Eynsham and Charlbury.
The older part of the village lies around the Green and by the two churches, St Mary the Virgin and the Methodist Church. On the village green is an old pump - until 1935, when mains water became available, water was pumped from wells or from the Eynsham Hall lake.
Until the 1870s the buildings of Freeland were mostly small cottages. In the absence of a church the Methodist chapel of 1817 was central to the hamlet's life in the early 19th century. The Taunton family transformed the village by building the church and associated parsonage in 1869 and the school and schoolhouse in 1871. The new buildings, all by J. L. Pearson, provided a unified centre to an otherwise scattered hamlet.
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