Cropredy (/ˈkrɒprədi/ KROP-rə-dee) is a village and civil parish on the River Cherwell, 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Banbury in Oxfordshire.

[citation needed] From 1519 onwards Brasenose College, Oxford owned extensive land in Cropredy.

[2] Cropredy Bridge on the River Cherwell was the site of a major battle in 1644 during the English Civil War.

The battle was a stalemate; the Parliamentarian side suffered heavy casualties but ultimately prevented the King's forces from crossing the bridge.

Before the battle, some of the church valuables were hidden in the River Cherwell; these included the brass eagle lectern, which was not recovered for 50 years, during which time it was damaged.

[8][9] St Mary's parish is now part of the Benefice of Shires' Edge along with those of Claydon, Great Bourton, Mollington and Wardington.

[11] No trace remains, its site is unknown[11] and it is not clear whether the shrine chapel was at St. Mary's church or elsewhere in the parish.

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.

It never reached Rugby, but at Fenny Compton it met the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway and thus became part of an important north–south main line.