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A History of the County of Oxford
… ECONOMIC HISTORY Agriculture Open Fields and Commons By the early 13th century until inclosure in 1814 Asthall parish contained four open fields, two south of Asthall village and two to the north-east (Fig. 18). In … 64 in 1609 the area consisted of three closes of 'woodland ground' reckoned at 208 acres. 65 The three new coppice names …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Asthall, a secluded rural parish which formerly adjoined the southern edge of Wychwood Forest, lies c. 4 miles (7 km) west of Witney and … have been opposite the rectory enclosure, on what was open ground in the early 19th century; 99 others presumably lay at …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Asthall Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT View Of Frankpledge and Manor Courts Before 1241 Richard, earl of Cornwall, as lord of Asthall manor, withdrew the suit of Asthall from Bampton hundred court to his own …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES In the late 11th century Asthall belonged to one estate (Asthall … was created in the late 15th century by the accumulation of smaller holdings (Asthall Leigh freehold). The late … wing retains its original heavy joists and beams on the ground floor. The whole building seems to have been raised to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… A church was founded for Asthall probably soon after the Norman Conquest, and belonged until the early 15th … College. The living was poor and most incumbents were men of only local renown; they were generally resident in the … with four main rooms and three service rooms on the ground floor, and four main bedrooms and two servants' …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… (O.S. 6 in. xxi. N.W.) Ecclesiastical (1). Parish Church of St. Mary stands on high ground W. of the village. It is built of flint with stone dressings; the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… (O.S. 6 in. III, S.W.) Aston is a small parish 8 m. N.N.W. of Leominster. The church, with a remarkable 12th-century doorway, is the … flat top rising at most about 9 ft. above the surrounding ground. There are traces of a ditch on the S. and W. and of a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… S.W. (b)xxviii. N.E.) Ecclesiastical a (1). Parish Church of St. James the Great stands at the N. end of the village. It was … has been completely altered. In the S. wall, on the ground floor, is a window of c. 1600 and of five lights with …
A History of the County of Oxford
… built in Aston in 1838 on land given by Henry Hippisley, the cost met from subscriptions and from funds invested by C. L. Kerby, vicar of Bampton, and his predecessor George Richards, who … it was consecrated as a chapel of ease with its own burial ground, 20 and in 1857, under Order in Council of 1845, it …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Aston and Cote Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT. The lord of Aston Pogges claimed courts baron and views of … Its only other recorded business was making church, highway, and poor rates, and in 1849 it authorized a fund …