Crowell is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about 4 miles southeast of the market town of Thame and 1 mile southwest of the village of Chinnor. The 2001 Census recorded the parish's population as 100. Crowell village is a spring line settlement at the source of a stream called the Pleck at the foot of the Chiltern Hills escarpment. The toponym "…Crowell is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about 4 miles southeast of the market town of Thame and 1 mile southwest of the village of Chinnor. The 2001 Census recorded the parish's population as 100. Crowell village is a spring line settlement at the source of a stream called the Pleck at the foot of the Chiltern Hills escarpment. The toponym "Crowell" is derived from the Old English for "crow's spring" or "crow's stream".
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