Taston is a hamlet in Spelsbury civil parish, about north of Charlbury and southeast of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.
Taston is about north of the Akeman Street Roman road.
The survey of English Place-Names records Taston as Thorstan in 1278âÂÂ9, Thorstane in 1316, Torstone in 1492 and Taston in 1608âÂÂ9.
The name element Thor is a reference to the Norse god Thor. The name element stan is from Old English stÃÂn (stone ). The toponym might be Thor stone or Thor's stone.
The Thor Stone is a standing stone that stands about seven-foot tall in the centre of Taston. It is a menhir, meaning that it was manhandled there by humans. A local myth maintains that the stone portrays the image of a thunderbolt, and that it was created by a thunderbolt from Thor himself. It is a scheduled monument.
At the centre of Taston are the base and broken shaft of a Medieval preaching cross. It is a Grade II* listed building.
Middle Farmhouse is a house built of coursed rubble in the 17th and early 18th centuries. Part of the roof is of Stonesfield slate. The farmstead has a four-bay barn that was built of stone early in the 18th century and altered in 1884.
The Firkins is a small house near Thorsbrook Spring. It is built of rubble and probably dates from early in the 18th century.
At Thorsbrook Spring, about southeast of the preaching cross, is a Victorian Gothic Revival memorial fountain. It was built in 1862 in memory of Henrietta, Viscountess Dillon, wife of Henry Dillon, 13th Viscount Dillon.