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The village of Radley has a church and a college, a river and a railway and,
centrally located, a post office and a pub. Modern village life is centred round
the church, the school and the new village hall.
In the 1950s village boys competed for the right to earn sixpence carrying the
Young Gents trunks up to the college from the railway station. Since then the
building of large areas of housing has increased the pre-war size of the village
fourfold and the rural cottages are overshadowed.
Local people have access to the colleges sporting facilities, and often walk in
its pleasant, tree-filled, well maintained grounds. Many an elderly person has
been grateful for the help of the Social Service boys who visit them, and firm
friendships have been formed. The summer months are characterized by the daily
stream of athletic looking young men running or cycling past the church and over
the railway bridge down to the boathouse on the Thames.
St James the Great, a pretty 13th century stone church with a square tower,
overlooks the timber-framed vicarage house believed to have been inhabited since
the 13th century, but not always by vicars. In the church, beneath a gallery is
a pictorial map of Radley, embroidered by members of the WI in 1971.
The railway bridge links the village of Radley and Lower Radley. Almost all the
houses on the Radley side were built since 1920, and it is in Lower Radley that
the picturesque thatched cottages can be found.
Railway and Thames run through Radley on their journey from Oxford to London.
The station, which was originally built to serve the college, now meets the needs of
commuters.
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