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Oxfordshire A-G

A

Adderbury

Edburgberie: King's land; Bishop of Winchester; Robert from Robert of Stafford. 8 mills. Wool and cheese.

Now 2 adjoining villages, East and West Adderbury. Adderbury House was the home of the poet John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, in the 17th century.

Adwell

Aduelle: William from Miles Crispin. Mill.

Adwell House.

Albury

Al / Eldeberie: Reginald from Earl William.

Some houses.

Alkerton

Alcrintone: Ralph from Bishop of Bayeux; Richard from Miles Crispin.

Jacobean rectory built by Thomas Lydiat, cosmographer, and tutor to Henry, Prince of Wales, in the early 17th century.

Alvescot

Elfegescote: Saeric from the king.

Ambrosden

Ambresdone: Hugh d'Ivry.

Said to be the site of the camp of Ambrosius Aurelianus, summoned by the Britons to drive back the invading Saxons.

Ardley

Ardulueslie: Robert from Earl Hugh and Robert from him.

A castle was built and destroyed by the Normans.

Arncott

(Alia) Ernicote: Robert d'Oilly and Roger d'Ivry from Abingdon Abbey; William son of Manai from the king.

Now 2 villages, Upper and Lower Arncott.

Ascott d'Oyley

Est(h)cote: Roger from Robert d'Oilly. Mill.

Area adjoining Ascott-under-Wychwood.

Ascott Earl

Est(h)cote: Ilbert from Bishop of Bayeux.

Area adjoining Ascott-under-Wychwood.

Asthall

Esthale: Roger d'Ivry. 2 mills.

Asthall Manor House; Saxon Asthall Barrow.

Aston Rowant

Estone: Miles Crispin.

Aston House.

Astrop

Estrope: Roger from Earl William.

St. Rumbald's Well, a mineral spring.

B

Badgemore

Begeurde: Ralph from Henry de Ferrers.

Bainton

Baditone: Erchenbald from Giles brother of Ansculf.

Balscott(cote)

Berescote: Wadard from Bishop of Bayeux.

Pond in a dell.

Bampton

Bentone: King's land; Bishop Robert from Bishop of Exeter; Ilbert from Bishop of Bayeux; Roger from Robert d'Oilly. 4 mills, 2 fisheries, market, salthouses.

Market town, noted for morris dancing.

Banbury

Banesberie: Bishop of Lincoln. 4 mills.

Town famed for its cakes since 1608. Banbury Cross, built in 1859, replaced the original, which was destroyed by Puritans in 1602.

Barford St. John

Bereford: Robert d'Oilly from Bishop of Bayeux.

Barford St. Michael

Bereford: Roger from Abingdon Abbey and Wadard's son from him; Ilbod. Mill.

Barton Ede

Bertone: Wadard and Adam from Bishop of Bayeux. Mill.

Now Bartongate, scattered houses.

Beckley

Bechelie: Roger d'Ivry.

Traces of a Roman road; Saxon and Norman church; Beckley Park, a moated Tudor manor house.

Begbroke

Bechebroc: Ralph from Roger de Lacy.

Benson (Bensington)

Besintone / Besentone: William from the king; Theodoric the Goldsmith from the king. 2 mills, fisheries.

The lock on the River Thames is where Romans crossed the ford and where Offa of Mercia won a victory over the Saxons in 777.

Berrick Salome

Berewiche: Ordgar from Miles Crispin.

Bicester

Bernecestre: Robert d'Oilly. 2 mills.

Market town.

Bix

Bixa: Hugh from Walter Giffard; Hervey from the king.

Grim's Ditch.

Black Bourton

Borburtone: Wimund from Arnulf de Hesdin; Roger d'Ivry and Ansketel from Earl William and Payne from Roger d'Ivry. 2 mills.

Bladon

Blade: Adam from Bishop of Bayeux. 2 mills.

Earthwork of Round Castle. Lord Randolph Churchill (1847-95) and Sir Winston are both buried here.

Bletchingdon/ton

Blecesdone / Blicestone: Gilbert from Robert d'Oilly; Alfwy the Sheriff. Mill.

The original house in Bletchingdon Park, fortified for Charles I during the Civil War, was captured by Cromwell.

Bloxham

Blochesham: King's land. 6 mills. Wool and cheese, a year's corn.

Bodicote

Bodicote: Count of Evreux; Hugh from Walter Giffard; Berengar de Tosny from Robert his father.

Bodicote Grange; Bodicote House.

Bolney

Bollehede: Gilbert de Bretteville from Earl William.

Brighthampton

Bristelmestone: Wadard from Bishop of Bayeux; Ansketel from Earl William. Mill.

Brightwell Baldwin

Brete / Britewelle: Hervey from Bishop of Bayeux; Roger from the king. Mill.

Britwell Salome

Brutuelle: Amaline and William from Miles Crispin.

Brize Norton

Nortone: Fulk from Roger d'Ivry; Theodoric the Goldsmith and Godwin from the king.

RAF base.

Broadwell

Bradewelle: Christina. 2 mills, fishery.

Broadwell Grove.

Bromscott

Bumerescote: Gosbert from Robert of Stafford.

Brookhampton

Hantone: Reginald from Roger d'Ivry.

Some houses.

Broughton (near Banbury)

Brohtune: Robert, Reginald and Gilbert from Berengar de Tosny. 2 mills.

Broughton Castle.

Broughton Poggs

Brotone: Robert FitzMurdoch. 2 mills.

Bucknell

Buchehelle: Gilbert from Robert d'Oilly.

Bucknell House.

Burford

Bureford: Bishop of Bayeux. 2 mills.

Small Cotswold town, a wool centre in the 16th century and horse-racing centre in the 17th-19th centuries.

C

Cadwell

Cadewelle: Brown the priest, the pre-Conquest holder.

Cassington

Cersetone / Cersitone / Chersitone: Wadard and Ilbert from Bishop of Bayeux. Mill, fishery (175 eels).

Caversfield

Castrefelle: Bryant from William de Warenne. Fishpond.

Caversfield House; Norman church with an early 13th century bell, the county's oldest.

Chadlington

Cedelintone: Reginald the Archer and Siward Hunter from the king.

Chadlington Manor House; prehistoric remains on Chadlington downs; trackway, enclosure, standing stone ('The Hawk Stone') and barrows.

Chalford

Celford: Robert from Henry de Ferrers. Mill.

Now 2 hamlets, Chalford Green and Old Chalford.

Chalgrove

Celgraue: Miles Crispin. 5 mills.

On Chalgrove Field (1643) a skirmish was fought between Royalists and Parliamentarians in which John Hampden was mortally wounded.

Charlton on Otmoor

Cerlentone: Roger d'Ivry from Hugh de Grandmesnil.

White-clad village girls bring the 'May Cross' of flowers in procession to the church every May Day.

Chastleton

Cestitone: Urse, Ilbert, Ralph and Ansketel from Bishop of Bayeux; Henry de Ferrers from Winchcombe Abbey; Aelfric from the king. Mill.

Chastleton House.

Checkendon

Cecadene: Alfred nephew of Wigot.

Traditonally, the tenure of Wyfold Court is held on condition its owner presents a rose to the king if he passes that way on May Day.

Chesterton

Cestretone: William from Miles Crispin. Mill.

Roman Akerman Street; remains of the Roman town of Alchester.

Chilworth

Celelorde: Hugh from Roger d'Ivry; Hascoit Musard.

Chinnor

Chenore: Leofwin.

Chipping Norton

Nortone: Arnulf de Hesdin. 3 mills.

Cotswold town.

Chippinghurst

Cibbaherste: Count of Evreux.

Churchill

Cercelle: Walter from Earl Hugh, formerly Earl Harold. 2 mills.

Birthplace of Warren Hastings (1731-1818).

Clanfield

Chenefelde: Payne from Roger d'Ivry.

Cogges

Coges: Wadard from Bishop of Bayeux. Mill.

Some houses.

Combe

Cumbe: Bishop of Bayeux. Mill.

Church, rebuilt c.1400 by the monks of Eynsham, to whom it had belonged since Norman times.

Cornbury

Corneberie: Reginald. Forests.

Cornbury Park House.

Cornwell

Cornewelle: Ansketel from Earl William. Mill.

Cornwell House.

Cottisford

Cotesforde: Roger d'Ivry from Hugh de Grandmesnil.

Cottisford House.

Cowley

Covelie: Roger from Bishop of Bayeux; Roger from Count Eustace; Toli from Miles Crispin; Leofwin from the king. 2 mills, 2 fisheries.

Adjoining Oxford; motor works.

Cropredy

Cropelie: Ansgered, Gilbert, Theodoric, Richard, Edward and 2 Roberts from Bishop of Lincoln. 5 mills.

Charles I won the Battle of Cropredy Bridge (1646).

Crowell

Clawelle: William Peverel.

Crowmarsh Gifford

Craumares: Hugh from Walter Giffard, formerly Earl Harold. 2 mills.

Norman church, once a leper hospital.

Cuddesdon

Codesdone: Abingdon Abbey. Mill, 2 fisheries.

Bishop of Oxford's palace; theological college.

Cutteslowe

Codesdlam / lane: Siward from the Canons of Oxford; Alfred the Clerk from Roger d'Ivry.

Cuxham

Cuchesham: Alfred from Miles Crispin. 3 mills.

D

Dean

Dene: Robert from Henry de Ferrers. 2 mills.

Deddington

Dadintone: Bishop of Bayeux. 3 mills.

Small market town. In its church are wooden crosses from Flanders with the mud of the battlefield clinging to them.

Dorchester

Dorchestre / Dorkecestre: Bricteva from Bishop of London. 5 mills. 51 sticks of eels.

Originally an Iron Age settlement later a Roman camp (Dorocine), then a Saxon cathedral city.

Draycot

Draicote: Richard from Miles Crispin.

Drayton (near Wroxton)

Draiton: Robert d'Oilly; Thorkell; Thurstan from William FitzAnsculf. 3 mills.

Ducklington

Dochelintone: Roger from Robert d'Oilly; Robert from Earl William. Mill.

Duns Tew

Teowe / Tewa / Twam: Wadard from Bishop of Bayeux; Bishop of Lisieux; Everwin from Robert of Stafford; Everwin from Robert d'Oilly.

Duns Tew Manor House.

Dunsden

Dunesdene: Bishop of Salisbury.

Dunthrop

Dunetorp: Bishop of Lisieux; Count of Evreux.

E

Easington

Esidone: Robert FitzRalph from the king.

Some houses.

Elsfield

Esefelde: Thurstan from Robert d'Oilly.

John Buchan (1875-1940) lived at the manor house before he was made Lord Tweedsmuir, and his ashes lie in the churchyard.

Emmington

Amintone: William Peverel.

Enstone

Henestan: Winchcombe Abbey. 4 mills.

The Hoar Stone, 9ft high, marks a burial chamber.

Ewelme

Lau(u)elme / Auuilma / -ilme: Hugh from Walter Giffard; Ranulf Peverel; Robert from Gilbert de Ghent; Robert FitzRalph from the king.

Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927) is buried here.

Eynsham

Eglesham: Columban from Bishop of Lincoln. Mill.

Eysham Hall.

F

Fifield

Fifhide: Henry de Ferrers.

Fifield Manor House.

Finmere

Finemere: Robert from Bishop of Bayeux; Robert from Bishop of Coutances. Mill.

Forest Hill

Fostel: Roger from Bishop of Bayeux.

The poet John Milton was married here to his first wife, Mary Powell, in 1643.

Foscot

Foxcote: Richard de Courcy.

Fringford

Feringeford: Wadard from Bishop of Bayeux. 2 mills.

Fringford Hall.

Fritwell

Fert(e)welle: Reginald Wadard from Bishop of Bayeux; Reginald from Earl William.

Fulbrook

Fulebroc: Roger d'Ivry. Mill.

Fulwell

Fulewelle: Gilbert from Robert d'Oilly. Mill.

G

Gangsdown

Ganguluesdene: Ordgar, the pre-Conquest holder, from Miles Crispin.

Gangsdown Hall, near Nuffield.

Garsington

Gersedune: Gilbert and Sweeting from Abingdon Abbey; Toli from Miles Crispin.

Garsington Manor House.

Gatehampton

Gadintone / Gratentun: Brian from William de Warenne; Miles Crispin. Mill.

Glympton

Glintone: William from Bishop of Coutances. Mill.

Glympton Park.

Godington

Godendone: William from Richard Poynant. Mill.

Old Moat Farm.

Goring

Garinges: Robert d'Oilly. Mill.

Grafton

Graptone: Count of Evreux.

Great Haseley

Haselie: Miles Crispin.

Great Milton

Mid(d)eltone: Bishop of London. 2 mills.

Milton House; Milton Priory. Little Milton, a village, is close by. John Milton's family may have derived their name from it.

Great Rollright

Rolle(a)ndri (majore): Robert of Stafford; Robert FitzThurstan and William from the king.

Great Tew

Tewa: Bishop of Bayeux.

Transformed when Loudon, the 19th century landscape gardener, surrounded it with evergreens.

Grimsbury

Grimberie: Gunfrid de Choques. Mill.

Part of Banbury.

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