Hinton Waldrist
| Hinton Waldrist | |
| Berkshire | |
|---|---|
 St Margaret of Antioch parish church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU3799 |
| Location: | 51°41’20"N, 1°27’29"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 333 (2001) |
| Post town: | Faringdon |
| Postcode: | SN7 |
| Dialling code: | 01865 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Vale of White Horse |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Wantage |
Hinton Waldrist is a village in northerm Berkshire, found between Oxford and Faringdon, 9 miles southwest of Oxford. The parish includes the hamlet of Duxford.
Contents
Parish church
The parish church of St Margaret is 13th century, but has been extensively remodelled since.[1] It is a Grade II* listed building.[2]
Castle
Earthworks of a motte-and-bailey castle are visible to the southwest of the moated manor house.
History
In 1086 the Domesday Book recorded the village as Hentone, from the Old English for "high farmstead".[3] In the 12th century the manor passed to the Saint-Valery-en-Caux family, from whom the village took the second part of its name. In 1332 the manor was acquired by William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton, whose granddaughter Mary de Bohun became the first wife of King Henry IV The manor was subsequently held by John Ramsay, 1st Earl of Holderness, Sir Henry Marten and the Loder family.[4]
Scenes in our Village
Hinton Waldrist is the subject of 59 stereoscopic images produced by the Victorian photographer T R Williams in 1856.[5] The series of photographs is the subject of a book entitled A Village Lost and Found, co-authored by Queen guitarist Brian May.[6]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Hinton Waldrist) |
References
- ↑ Pevsner, 1966, page 155
- ↑ Images of England
- ↑ Mills & Room, 2003, s.v. Hinton
- ↑ Page & Ditchfield, 1924, pages 463-466
- ↑ May & Vidal, 2009
- ↑ Roe, Nicholas (2009-10-15). "Brian May rediscovers 'lost' village". The Daily Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/outdoors/6336330/Brian-May-rediscovers-lost-village.html. Retrieved 2009-11-01.
Sources
- May, Brian; Vidal, E (2009). A Village Lost and Found: Scenes in Our Village by T. R. Williams. An Annotated Tour of the Celebrated 1850s Stereo Card Series. Frances Lincoln.
- Mills, A.D.; Room, A. (2003). A Dictionary of British Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198527586.
- Page, W.H.; Ditchfield, P.H., eds (1924). A History of the County of Berkshire, Volume 4. Victoria County History. pp. 463–466.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus (1966). Berkshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 155.
