Charles Mason, one of the surveyors of America's Mason–Dixon line, (the other being Jeremiah Dixon), was born in Oakridge Lynch in 1728. The architect
Alfred Hoare Powell bought and restored Gurners Farm in Oakridge Lynch around 1902. Gurners Farm was rented from Alfred Powell by the writer and drama producer
Mabel Dearmer for some months in 1914. From 1913 to 1920 Sir
William Rothenstein, artist and some time Principal of the Royal College of Art, lived at Iles Farm in Far Oakridge, which he restored and furnished with the help of members of the
Arts and Crafts movement based at
Sapperton. Notable persons who visited Rothenstein in Oakridge included
Rabindranath Tagore,
W. B. Yeats,
A. E. Housman,
Augustus John.
John Drinkwater and
André Gide.
Max Beerbohm spent the years of
the Great War at Winston Cottage as William Rothenstein's guest. Dame
Margaret Weston, director of the Science Museum, grew up in the village and also lived there in retirement. ==References==