Crux Easton
| Crux Easton | |
| Hampshire | |
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 St Michael and All Angels, Crux Easton | |
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| Grid reference: | SU426563 |
| Location: | 51°18’15"N, 1°23’25"W |
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Crux Easton is a hamlet in the Parish of Ashmansworth in Hampshire, about seven miles south of Newbury, Berkshire.
History
The Church of England parish church of St Michael and All Angels was built in 1775, restored in 1894. It is a Grade II* listed building.[1]
In the reign of Edward the Confessor, this manor had been in the possession of one Linxi; at the time of the Domesday Survey was held of the king in chief by Croch the huntsman, and this family continued to hold the manor until the fourteenth century.
Records in 1870 noted that Crux Easton parish covered 1,099 acres, had a population of 76, and had 17 houses.
There is a wind engine at Crux Easton that was built by John Wallis Titt in about 1892.[2]
During the Second World War, Sir Oswald Mosley, the Leader of the British Union of Fascists, bought Crux Easton House, and here he and his wife Diana were placed under house arrest in 1944.[3]
Geoffrey de Havilland's father was vicar of Crux Easton.
Thomas Croc
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Outside links
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- Information on Crux Easton from GENUKI
- Norgate, Jean; Norgate, Martin: 'Crux Easton': Old Hampshire Gazetteer (University of Portsmouth, 2001)
References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1339798: Church of St Michael (Grade II* listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1339798: Wind Engine and Former Mill House (Grade @ listing)
- ↑ Joseph Anthony Amato, 'Rethinking Home: a Case for Writing Local History' (2002), p. 390
- A History of the County of Hampshire - Volume 4 pp 311-314: Parishes: Crux Easton (Victoria County History)
- Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Hampshire & The Isle of Wight, 1967 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09606-4page 188