Asterleigh
- Kiddington with Asterleigh
- West Oxfordshire
- Oxfordshire
- South East
- Witney
- List of places
- UK
- England
- Oxfordshire
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]
Manor
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]
Church
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]
Farm and civil parish
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]
References
- ^ a b Page, 1907
- ^ a b c d Jope, 1948, pages 67-69
- ^ a b c d Emery, 1974, page 102
- ^ Warton, 1783, cited in Jope, 1948, pages 67-69
- ^ Case & Sturdy, 1960, page 131
- ^ Warton, 1815, page 23
- ^ Vision of Britain website: Asterleigh
- ^ Vision of Britain website: Kiddington
- ^ "Woodstock Registration District". UKBMD. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
- ^ "Population statistics Asterleigh CP/ExP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
- ^ West Oxfordshire District Council: Scheduled Ancient Monuments Archived September 2, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
Sources
- Case, Humphrey; Sturdy, David (1960). "Recent Mediaeval Finds in the Oxford Region". Oxoniensia. XXV. Oxford Architectural and Historical Society: 131.
- Emery, Frank (1974). The Oxfordshire Landscape. The Making of the English Landscape. London: Hodder & Stoughton. pp. 101–102. ISBN 0-340-04301-6.
- Jope, E.M. (1948). "Recent Mediaeval Finds in the Oxford Region". Oxoniensia. XIII. Oxford Architectural and Historical Society: 67–69.
- Page, W.H., ed. (1907). A History of the County of Oxford, Volume 2. Victoria County History. Archibald Constable & Co. pp. 1–63.
- Warton, Thomas (1783). The History and Antiquities of Kiddington (2nd ed.). pp. 17–21.
- Warton, Thomas (1815). The History and Antiquities of Kiddington (3rd ed.). London: J. Nichols, Son & Bentley. p. 23.
- v
- t
- e
- Oxfordshire
- County Council elections
- District Council elections
- Banbury County Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock County Constituency
- Witney County Constituency
- Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney
- Bampton
- Lower Haddon
- Weald
- Brize Norton
- Ducklington
- Enstone
- Eynsham
- Freeland
- Hailey
- New Yatt
- Hanborough
- Milton-under-Wychwood
- Minster Lovell
- North Leigh
- East End
- Wilcote
- Shipton-under-Wychwood
- Standlake
- Steeple Barton
- Middle Barton
- Stonesfield
(component villages
and hamlets)
- Alvescot
- Ascott-under-Wychwood
- Asthall
- Asthall Leigh
- Worsham
- Black Bourton
- Bladon
- Blenheim
- Broadwell
- Bruern
- Cassington
- Worton
- Chadlington
- Chastleton
- Chilson
- Churchill
- Clanfield
- Combe
- Cornbury and Wychwood
- Cornbury
- Wychwood
- Cornwell
- Crawley
- Curbridge
- Fawler
- Fifield
- Filkins and Broughton Poggs
- Finstock
- Fulbrook
- Glympton
- Grafton and Radcot
- Great Tew
- Hardwick-with-Yelford
- Heythrop
- Dunthrop
- Holwell
- Idbury
- Kelmscott
- Kencot
- Kiddington with Asterleigh
- Asterleigh
- Kiddington
- Over Kiddington
- Kingham
- Langford
- Leafield
- Lew
- Little Faringdon
- Little Tew
- Lyneham
- Northmoor
- Over Norton
- Ramsden
- Mount Skippett
- Rollright
- Rousham
- Salford
- Sandford St. Martin
- Ledwell
- Sarsden
- Shilton
- South Leigh
- Spelsbury
- Stanton Harcourt
- Swerford
- Swinbrook and Widford
- Tackley
- Taynton
- Westcott Barton
- Westwell
- Wootton
- Dornford
- Hordley
- Worton
and boroughs
- Chipping Norton Rural District
- Municipal Borough of Chipping Norton
- Witney Urban District
- Witney Rural District
- Municipal Borough of Woodstock
- Woodstock Rural District
constituencies
- Oxfordshire County Constituency
- Woodstock Borough Constituency
- Mid Oxfordshire or Woodstock County Constituency
- Henley County Constituency
- Mid Oxfordshire County Constituency