Chalgrove

Village in Oxfordshire, England, 18 km/11 mi southeast of Oxford; population (2001) 2,900. The chancel of the parish church, which dates from the 12th century, contains a number of frescoes which were covered up during the Civil War and rediscovered in the late 19th century.

On 18 June 1643, during the English Civil War, the Royalists defeated the Parliamentarians in a skirmish at Chalgrove Field in which the member of parliament John Hampden was fatally wounded.