result of the agricultural depression. In 1932, when it was transferred from the civil parish of Eynsham to that of Hanborough, Freeland's population was 214. Freeland was made a separate civil parish in 1951, by which time its population had risen to 530. It then rose every decade, reaching 1,374 in 1981 and 1,490 in 2021. Chapel, Church and School The Wesleyan chapel was completed in 1807. It is now Freeland Methodist Church. The Gothic Revival architect John Loughborough Pearson designed the Church of England parish church of Saint Mary the Virgin, parsonage and parish school. The Taunton family paid for the church and parsonage to be built in 1869 and the school in 1871. The church is high Victorian Gothic Revival, with stained glass and decoration by Clayton and Bell and 13th-century-style paintings of Jesus' Passion and Transfiguration. Mears and Stainbank of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry cast four bells for St. Mary's in 1896. The same foundry cast a new treble and second bells in 2010, completing the present ring of six. The church clock was made and installed by Smiths of Derby in May 1898 and was dedicated to a Sarah Percival. In May 1969 the clock was taken down, reset and regilded by Judge Brothers of Oxford, and reinstalled by the local Breakspear family. The parish is now part of the Benefice of Hanborough and Freeland. The school, which was originally in an old stone house, next to the church on Wroslyn Road, moved to new premises in Parklands in 1964 and is now Freeland Church of England Primary School. Amenities Freeland's first village hall was a former Army hut opened in about 1920. The games fields were opened in 1958 and a new village hall was completed in the 1960s. The second village hall was demolished in 2010, a new one was built in its place and in September 2011 it was officially opened by Prime Minister and Witney MP, David Cameron. It has a main hall with a kitchen and storage rooms. A second phase of the building project (the Community Recreation Facility – CRF), with sports changing rooms and meeting room (the "Newell Room"), was opened by the Deputy Lieutenant of Oxfordshire, David Mason, in September 2013. Freeland's one pub, The Oxfordshire Yeoman, is in Wroslyn Road opposite the village hall. Freeland has a Football Club and a Cricket Club. Freeland Football club was