Bainton, Oxfordshire
| Bainton | |
| Oxfordshire | |
|---|---|
 Bay Tree House, Bainton | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP580270 |
| Location: | 51°56’20"N, 1°9’25"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Bicester |
| Postcode: | OX27 |
| Dialling code: | 01869 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cherwell |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Banbury |
Bainton is a hamlet comprising a cluster of farms in the parish of Stoke Lyne, about three miles north of the centre of Bicester.
The Name of the place comes from the Old English Badan tun meaning "Bada's farm".[1]
History
The Domesday Book records that in 1086 Ghilo de Picquigny held the manor of Bainton.[1]
In 1279 Bainton had 17 households.[1] In 1316 18 villagers were assessed to pay tax but by 1520 the figure had fallen to five.[1] By the 1950s Bainton comprised only four farmhouses and a cottage.[1]
In 1530 the manor was sold to Edward Peckham, cofferer to King Henry VIII and John Williams, later 1st Baron Williams de Thame.[1] In 1613 Edward Ewer of Bucknell sold the manor to Sir William Cope, 2nd Baronet of Hanwell for £5,300.[1] A legal dispute between them ensued, which ended with Ewer recovering the manor in 1628.[1] The Ewer family could not afford to keep Bainton, and sold the manor again in 1637.[1]
By the middle of the 17th century Bainton had been converted from arable farming to pasture.[1] This required less labour so the hamlet became depopulated.[1]
Bainton Manor Farm is a coursed rubblestone house.[1] It was constructed in either the latter part of the 16th or earlier part of the 17th century,[1] during the Great Rebuilding of England, originally as the manor house.[1] In 1783 John Warde, founder and first Master of the Bicester Hunt,[2] was using it as a hunting-box, Joseph Bullock of Caversfield had bought the manor and the two men together built stables and kennels there.[1] 330 yards north-west of the hamlet an obelisk marks the grave of a favourite foxhound.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 A History of the County of Oxford - Volume 6 pp 312–323: {{{2}}} (Victoria County History)
- ↑ "Location and History". Bicester Hunt with Whaddon Chase. Archived from the original on 10 December 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20101210093200/http://www.bicesterhunt.co.uk/location%26history.html.
- ↑ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 789.
- Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1974 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09639-2page 789
Outside links
 |
("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Bainton, Oxfordshire) |
- Bainton in the Domesday Book