Editing Cropredy (section)

==Transport==
[[File:The Oxford Canal & the Bridge Store, Cropredy.jpg|thumb|upright|The Oxford Canal at Cropredy]]
Building of the [[Oxford Canal]] began at [[Hawkesbury Junction]] on the [[Coventry Canal]] in 1769 and reached Cropredy in October 1777. The canal passes between the River Cherwell and the village. There is a [[canal lock]] here, and at the south end of the village a wharf was built. This originally handled coal from the [[Coventry]] coalfield, and now serves the canal's popular leisure traffic. The wharf was briefly the canal's terminus, until the section from Cropredy to Banbury opened in March 1778.{{sfn|Compton|1976|p=25}} The canal finally reached [[Oxford]] and the [[River Thames]] at the end of 1789.{{sfn|Compton|1976|p=39}}

The [[Oxford and Rugby Railway]] had been built from {{rws|Oxford}} northwards past Cropredy by 1852. It never reached {{rws|Rugby}}, but at {{rws|Fenny Compton}} it met the [[Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway]] and thus became part of an important north–south main line. The [[Great Western Railway]] took over the O&RR before it was completed, and opened [[Cropredy railway station]] to serve the village. [[British Rail]]ways closed the station in 1956, but the railway remains open as part of the [[Chiltern Main Line]].

Cropredy's public transport is bus route 503 between Banbury and Long Itchington in Warwickshire, operated by Catteralls Coaches with one bus each way a week on Thursdays only <ref>{{cite web |url= https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55b72d9ce4b07c169ff7994d/t/5755687f7da24f36448bd632/1465215105966/503.pdf |title=Mats Current Timetables.xlsx - 503.pdf  |access-date=30 December 2016}}</ref> and route 502, operated by Stagecoach, between Temple Herdewyke and Banbury with one bus each way a week on Saturdays and Good Friday.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://tis-kml-stagecoach.s3.amazonaws.com/PdfTimetables/XLBO502.pdf |title=XLBO502.pdf |access-date=8 January 2017}}</ref>