Weald, Oxfordshire

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Weald
Oxfordshire
Location
Grid reference: SP308022
Location: 51°43’5"N, 1°33’14"W
Data
Post town: Bampton
Postcode: OX18
Dialling code: 01993
Local Government
Council: West Oxfordshire
Parliamentary
constituency:
Witney

Weald is a hamlet sitting half a mile south-west of Bampton in Oxfordshire. The name 'Weald' is from the Old English for "woodland".

The place is recorded by name in the late 12th century when Osney Abbey acquired a house there. It was a separate township by the 13th century. In the 18th and 19th centuries the township included much of the southwest part of the town of Bampton itself.

A large late 17th century manor house, Weald Manor, was remodelled at around 1730.[1] It is a Grade II* listed building.[2]

References

  1. Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 433
  2. National Heritage List 1198982: Weald Manor