Asterleigh | |
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Location within
Oxfordshire | |
OS grid reference | SP4022 |
Civil parish | |
District | |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Woodstock |
Postcode district | OX20 |
Dialling code | 01608 |
Police | Thames Valley |
Fire | Oxfordshire |
Ambulance | South Central |
UK Parliament | |
Asterleigh, sometimes in the past called Esterley, [1] is a farm and deserted medieval village in the civil parish of Kiddington with Asterleigh, in the West Oxfordshire district, in Oxfordshire, England, about 3 miles (4.8 km) northeast of Charlbury. The site of the former village is about 0.25 miles (400 m) west of the present farm. [2]
Asterleigh's toponym indicates that it was created by woodland clearance [3] on what would then have been the edge of Wychwood Forest.
The Domesday Book of 1086 does not record Asterleigh as a separate settlement. Medieval pottery found in 1948 suggests that Asterleigh was inhabited by the 12th century. [2] Also in 1948, squared stones were found along with limestone roofing slates that had medieval-style drilled nail-holes. [2]
The earliest known documentary record of Asterleigh is from early in the 13th century. [2] At the time of the Hundred Rolls in 1279 it had 20 farms. [3] However, the village declined and its landowning family decided to leave the village and move to Nether Kiddington. [3]
Asterleigh was an ecclesiastical parish that had its own parish church by 1216. [1] However, in 1466 John Chedworth, Bishop of Lincoln absorbed Asterleigh into the ecclesiastical parish of Kiddington, declaring:
the tenths, oblations, rents and emoluments of the rectory of Asterleigh were so diminished as to be insufficient to support a rector, or even a competent parochial chaplain, on account of the paucity of parishioners, the barrenness of land, defects of husbandry, and an unusual prevalence of pestilences and epidemic sicknesses. [3]
In 1783 the Reverend Thomas Warton reported that "pieces of moulded stone and other antique masonry" had been found at Asterleigh. [4] In 1960 the footings of the church porch were unearthed and reburied. [5]
By the 18th century Asterleigh was no more than a farmhouse. [6] Asterleigh Farm was an extra-parochial area of 300 acres (120 ha) until 1858 [7] when it was made a civil parish. [8] On 1 October 1895 the parish was abolished and merged with Kiddington to form "Kiddington with Asterleigh". [9] In 1891 the parish had a population of 37. [10]
The site of the medieval village and church is now a Scheduled Ancient Monument. [11]
Asterleigh | |
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Location within
Oxfordshire | |
OS grid reference | SP4022 |
Civil parish | |
District | |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Woodstock |
Postcode district | OX20 |
Dialling code | 01608 |
Police | Thames Valley |
Fire | Oxfordshire |
Ambulance | South Central |
UK Parliament | |
Asterleigh, sometimes in the past called Esterley, [1] is a farm and deserted medieval village in the civil parish of Kiddington with Asterleigh, in the West Oxfordshire district, in Oxfordshire, England, about 3 miles (4.8 km) northeast of Charlbury. The site of the former village is about 0.25 miles (400 m) west of the present farm. [2]
Asterleigh's toponym indicates that it was created by woodland clearance [3] on what would then have been the edge of Wychwood Forest.
The Domesday Book of 1086 does not record Asterleigh as a separate settlement. Medieval pottery found in 1948 suggests that Asterleigh was inhabited by the 12th century. [2] Also in 1948, squared stones were found along with limestone roofing slates that had medieval-style drilled nail-holes. [2]
The earliest known documentary record of Asterleigh is from early in the 13th century. [2] At the time of the Hundred Rolls in 1279 it had 20 farms. [3] However, the village declined and its landowning family decided to leave the village and move to Nether Kiddington. [3]
Asterleigh was an ecclesiastical parish that had its own parish church by 1216. [1] However, in 1466 John Chedworth, Bishop of Lincoln absorbed Asterleigh into the ecclesiastical parish of Kiddington, declaring:
the tenths, oblations, rents and emoluments of the rectory of Asterleigh were so diminished as to be insufficient to support a rector, or even a competent parochial chaplain, on account of the paucity of parishioners, the barrenness of land, defects of husbandry, and an unusual prevalence of pestilences and epidemic sicknesses. [3]
In 1783 the Reverend Thomas Warton reported that "pieces of moulded stone and other antique masonry" had been found at Asterleigh. [4] In 1960 the footings of the church porch were unearthed and reburied. [5]
By the 18th century Asterleigh was no more than a farmhouse. [6] Asterleigh Farm was an extra-parochial area of 300 acres (120 ha) until 1858 [7] when it was made a civil parish. [8] On 1 October 1895 the parish was abolished and merged with Kiddington to form "Kiddington with Asterleigh". [9] In 1891 the parish had a population of 37. [10]
The site of the medieval village and church is now a Scheduled Ancient Monument. [11]