Lew is a village and civil parish about 2+1⁄2 miles (4 km) southwest of Witney in the West Oxfordshire District of Oxfordshire, England.

Evidence of early human habitation in the parish includes a tumulus, probably Anglo-Saxon, on a 350 feet (110 m) high hill west of the village.

[2] The village's place-name, recorded as Hlæwe in 984, means "tumulus" in Old English.

[3] Until the 19th century Lew was a township in the parish of Bampton.

[4] It became a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1857, called Bampton Lew.