the branch lines to Chipping Norton and Bourton-on-the-Water. BR later replaced the historic Kingham railway station building with a modern one. In 1955 the Royal Navy named a after the village. Amenities Kingham railway station is now served by Cotswold Line trains between London Paddington, , Worcester and . Bus route X8 serves the railway station and village. Buses run peak hours only, Monday to Friday, to and from Chipping Norton via Churchill. Pulham's Coaches operates the route for Oxfordshire County Council. The village has two gastropubs: The Plough, beside the older village green, operates under Heston Blumenthal-trained chef Emily Watkins; and The Wild Rabbit (formerly The Tollgate) which is now part of Lady Carole Bamford's Daylesford Organic organisation. The village also has an hotel called The Mill House. The village has a county primary school. The private Kingham Hill School is north of the village. Kingham has a village shop and post office, a Royal British Legion club, a village hall, two village greens, a children's play park and a football field. Twinning Kingham is twinned with the village of Pont-à-Marcq near Lille in France. In popular culture In 2004 a Country Life panel judged Kingham to be "England's Favourite Village". Blur bass-player Alex James lives on a sheep and dairy farm outside the village and chronicles the experience in his column in The Independent. An episode of the BBC Three comedy This Country was also filmed at Kingham railway station. References Sources External links Kingham Parish Council Civil parishes in Oxfordshire Villages in Oxfordshire West Oxfordshire District