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A History of the County of Oxford: XIX: Wychwood Forest and Environs

A History of the County of Oxford: XIX: Wychwood Forest and Environs

Townley, Simon

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Series: Victoria County History

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 1904356516
ISBN13: 9781904356516
Publisher: Victoria County History
Published: Aug 16 2019
Pages: 430
Weight: 4.25
Height: 1.30 Width: 8.30 Depth: 12.10
Language: English
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.

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