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Taston is a hamlet in Spelsbury civil parish, about north of Charlbury and southeast of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. ==History== Its toponym is derived from ''Thorstan'' meaning "Thorstone", a small standing stone claimed to be a thunderbolt of the god Thunor. At the centre of Taston are the base and broken shaft of a Medieval preaching cross. It is a Grade II * listed building. Middle Farmhouse is a house built of coursed rubble in the 17th and early 18th centuries. Part of the roof is of Stonesfield slate.〔 The farmstead has a four-bay barn that was built of stone early in the 18th century and altered in 1884. The Firkins is a small house near Thorsbrook Spring. It is built of rubble and probably dates from early in the 18th century. At Thorsbrook Spring, about southeast of the preaching cross, is a Victorian Gothic Revival memorial fountain. It was built in 1862 in memory of Henrietta, Viscountess Dillon, wife of Henry Dillon, 13th Viscount Dillon. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Taston」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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