Asterleigh
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Asterleigh, sometimes in the past called Esterley,[1] is a farm and deserted medieval village in the civil parish of Kiddington with Asterleigh, in the West Oxfordshire district, in Oxfordshire, England, about Script error: No such module "convert". northeast of Charlbury. The site of the former village is about Script error: No such module "convert". west of the present farm.[2]
Manor
Asterleigh's toponym indicates that it was created by woodland clearance[3] on what would then have been the edge of Wychwood Forest.
The Domesday Book of 1086 does not record Asterleigh as a separate settlement. Medieval pottery found in 1948 suggests that Asterleigh was inhabited by the 12th century.[2] Also in 1948, squared stones were found along with limestone roofing slates that had medieval-style drilled nail-holes.[2]
The earliest known documentary record of Asterleigh is from early in the 13th century.[2] At the time of the Hundred Rolls in 1279 it had 20 farms.[3] However, the village declined and its landowning family decided to leave the village and move to Nether Kiddington.[3]
Church
Asterleigh was an ecclesiastical parish that had its own parish church by 1216.[1] However, in 1466 John Chedworth, Bishop of Lincoln absorbed Asterleigh into the ecclesiastical parish of Kiddington, declaring:
the tenths, oblations, rents and emoluments of the rectory of Asterleigh were so diminished as to be insufficient to support a rector, or even a competent parochial chaplain, on account of the paucity of parishioners, the barrenness of land, defects of husbandry, and an unusual prevalence of pestilences and epidemic sicknesses.[3]
In 1783 the Reverend Thomas Warton reported that "pieces of moulded stone and other antique masonry" had been found at Asterleigh.[4] In 1960 the footings of the church porch were unearthed and reburied.[5]
Farm and civil parish
By the 18th century Asterleigh was no more than a farmhouse.[6] Asterleigh Farm was an extra-parochial area of Script error: No such module "convert". until 1858[7] when it was made a civil parish.[8] On 1 October 1895 the parish was abolished and merged with Kiddington to form "Kiddington with Asterleigh".[9] In 1891 the parish had a population of 37.[10]
The site of the medieval village and church is now a Scheduled Ancient Monument.[11]
References
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- ↑ a b Page, 1907
- ↑ a b c d Jope, 1948, pages 67-69
- ↑ a b c d Emery, 1974, page 102
- ↑ Warton, 1783, cited in Jope, 1948, pages 67-69
- ↑ Case & Sturdy, 1960, page 131
- ↑ Warton, 1815, page 23
- ↑ Vision of Britain website: Asterleigh
- ↑ Vision of Britain website: Kiddington
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