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A History of the County of Oxford - Volume XIII: Bampton Hundred (Part One) (Hardcover)
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A History of the County of Oxford - Volume XIII: Bampton Hundred (Part One) (Hardcover)
Series: Victoria County History
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This volume contains the histories of five ancient parishes in the
west of Oxfordshire near the river Thames, comprising the small
town of Bampton and some 13 villages and hamlets. Though chiefly
looking to markets at Witney and Oxford the area was long dominated
by Bampton, the centre of a large Anglo-Saxon estate, site of a
late Anglo-Saxon minster, and formerly a market town. A detailed
account is given of the town's topography, buildings, and economic
developments and the organization of the local landscape from an
early date is explored. Most villages were nucleated, and despite
some controversial early inclosures, notably at Northmoor,
open-field farming prevailed until the 19th century. A few
scattered hamlets and farmsteads resulted probably from woodland
clearance or late colonization, and several settlements were shrunk
or deserted in the late Middle Ages. Standlake had a medieval
market and fair, and until the late 17th century there was textile
and leather working notably at Standlake and Bampton. Important
buildings include the former Bampton castle, the 15th-century
timber-framed manor house at Yelford, and Cokethorpe House. Bampton
church is of unusual size and quality, and carvings in Ducklington
church may be associated with a late medieval cult of the Virgin.
Cote was an important centre of religious noncon-formity from the
17th century.
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