The Victoria History Of The County Of Oxford Wootton Hundred South Including Woodstock

Author : Louis Francis Salzman
Publisher : London : Published for the University of London, Institute of Historical Research by the Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
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Download or read book The Victoria History of the County of Oxford: Wootton hundred (Northern part) written by Louis Francis Salzman and published by London : Published for the University of London, Institute of Historical Research by the Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the histories of 19 parishes in the northern part of Wootton hundred, stretching from Stonesfield, Wootton, and Tackley in the south to Deddington, Barford St. Michael, and South Newington in the north; the other parishes are Glympton, Heythrop, Rousham, Sandford St. Martin, the Astons, the Bartons, the Wortons, and the three Tews. The area, bounded on the east by the river Cherwell and on part of the west by the river Glyme, contains the small, well documented, market town of Deddington, two outstanding country houses at Heythrop and Rousham, and many other notable secular and ecclesiastical buildings. Probably the best known village is Great Tew, whose development is here reinterpreted in the light of new evidence. The many deserted village sites in the area are treated in detail, and special attention has been given to the arrangement of open fields, of which a local feature was the development within a single vill of two separate sets of fields, known as ends or sides, as at Deddington, Duns Tew, and South Newington. The complex arrangements for the periodical division of common meadows are well documented in some parishes, particularly North Aston. A feature of religious life in the area was the establishment at Nether and Over Worton in the early 19th century of a strong, locally influential, tradition of evangelical Anglicanism. The volume is illustrated with 20 pages of plates, two church plans, and numerous parish and village maps.