Hampton Poyle
| Hampton Poyle | |
| Oxfordshire | |
|---|---|
 St Mary the Virgin parish church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP502155 |
| Location: | 51°50’10"N, 1°16’19"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Kidlington |
| Postcode: | OX5 |
| Dialling code: | 01865 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cherwell |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Banbury |
| Website: | Hampton Gay and Poyle |
Hampton Poyle is a village and ancient parish in Oxfordshire, sitting beside the River Cherwell, about a mile north-east of Kidlington in the Ploughley Hundred.
The village's name is from the Old English Ham tun (Home village, Homestead) with the addition of the name of the Poyle family who owned the manor from the 13th century.
Parish church
The parish church of St Mary the Virgin dates from the 13th century. The building was restored in 1844 and again in 1870, on the latter occasion under the direction of the Gothic Revival architect George Edmund Street. St Mary's is now part of the Church of England parish of Kidlington with Hampton Poyle.[1]
History
In the 13th century Hampton Poyle was granted to Walter de la Poyle, and its name therefore in its full form dates from after that grant.
In 1596 Bartholomew Steer of Hampton Poyle led inhabitants of both his own village and Hampton Gay to plot an agrarian revolt against landowners enclosing arable land and turning it into sheep pasture.[2] The rebels planned to murder landowners including the lord of the manor of Hampton Gay and then to march on London.[2] A carpenter at Hampton Gay warned the lord of that manor, five ringleaders were arrested and taken to London for trial. Steer was tortured and in 1597 two of his co-conspirators were sentenced to be hanged and quartered.[2] However, the Government also recognised the cause of the rebels' grievance and determined that "order should be taken about inclosures... that the poor may be able to live".[2] Parliament duly passed an Act (39 Eliz. 1 c. 2) to restore to arable use all lands that had been converted to pasture since the accession of Elizabeth I[2] in 1558.
Poyle Court is a 17th-century house that was re-fronted in about 1800.[3]
Hampton Poyle was a separate civil parish until 1932 when it was merged with the adjacent parish of Hampton Gay.
About the village
Hampton Poyle has one public house, The Bell. It is now also a restaurant and boutique hotel.[4]
Village flag
In 2014, Hampton Poyle adopted a village flag. It is a plainly heraldic form: gules, a saltire throughout argent, a bordure sable seemy of bezants.
The design is traditional, based on a banner of the arms of Walter de la Poyle, to whom the village was granted in the 13th century. The bezants (gold discs) refer to money brought back from the Crusades
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Hampton Poyle) |
References
Books
- Hampton Poyle - A History of the County of Oxford, Volume - Victoria County History
- Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 630–631. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
- Walter, John (2004). "Bartholomew Steer". in Matthew, H.C.G.; Harrison, Brian. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 52. London: Oxford University Press. pp. 371–372.