A History of the County of Oxford

XIX: Wychwood Forest and Environs
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-904356-51-6
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, 429 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 211 mm x 307 mm, Gewicht: 1928 g

Reihe: Victoria County History

Authoritative account of villages on the edge of the Cotswolds.

Until its partial clearance in the 1850s Wychwood forest, set in an undulating landscape on the edge of the Cotswolds, was one of the great royal forests of England, comparable with Savernake, Rockingham, or Whittlewood. This volume explores the history of the forest itself and of a dozen surrounding villages, of which Shipton-under-Wychwood was the centre of a large Anglo-Saxon royal estate and minster parish stretching across the area. Several villages were shaped by early woodland clearance, and most depended on the forest to varying degrees, supplementing traditional sheep-corn farming and small-scale industries such as pottery-making and quarrying. Neighbouring Cornbury park is well known for its nationally important 17th-century mansion house, and a slightly later country house survives at Bruern near the Gloucestershire border, on the site of a Cistercian abbey founded in 1147. Ascott-under-Wychwood acquired national notoriety in 1873 as home of the "Ascott Martyrs", a group of local women imprisoned for supporting strike action against a prominent Ascott farmer.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Townley, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword and Acknowledgements
Wychwood Forest and Environs: An Overview
Shipton-Under-Wychwood and Langley
Ascott-under-Wychwood
Leafield
Lyneham
Milton-under-Wychwood
Ramsden
Wychwood Forest and Cornbury Park
Bruern
Fifield
Idbury (including Bould and Foscott)
Abbreviations, Sources, Select Glossary

Über Autor(innen)

Townley, Simon
SIMON TOWNLEY has been VCH Oxfordshire county editor since 1996 and is closely involved in Oxfordshire local history, serving on the committees of several local societies. His academic interests focus on settlement, landscape, and religion, particularly (but not exclusively) in the medieval period. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.