During the civil war of the Anarchy, fought between the factions of Stephen of England and the Empress Matilda, both sides built a number of new castles to defend their territories and act as bases for expansion, typically motte and bailey designs such as those at Winchcombe, Upper Slaughter, or Bampton by the Empress's followers.
In a few years the convent possessed lands in Alvingham, Cockerington, and Calthorp, and the churches of St. Adelwold, Alvingham, and St. Mary, Cockerington, which stood in the same churchyard, within the precinct of the priory, and the churches of St. Leonard, Cockerington, Cawthorpe, Keddington, and Newton.
Sent on the English mission, he resided for many years in Oxfordshire, and in 1695 he was tutor in the family of Henry Fermor of Tusmore.
Mr Hambridge of Crown Farm, Ascott sacked his men who had joined the union and employed men from the neighbouring village of Ramsden as strikebreakers.
Ashdown House, Oxfordshire, a 17th-century country house in Ashbury, England, belonging to the National Trust
Ashdown House, Oxfordshire, a 17th-century country house in Ashbury, England
The former name of Benson, Oxfordshire, England, a village where the battle possibly took place
In 2006, the year she and Coates married, Decker became a joint tenant of The Cherry Tree Inn at Stoke Row near Henley, which Coates had established.
His mother was Richarda Croke (1743?-1812), sister of Sir Alexander Croke, of Studley Priory, Oxfordshire.
This linked Water Eaton and Oxford, and a short section of this path (at the bottom of Harpes Road, Islip Road and Victoria Road in North Oxford) is called Water Eaton Road.
Fabyc was born in London and spent her early childhood in London, Ljubljana, Ireland and Islip near Oxford, before travelling to Australia by boat as she was about to start secondary school.
One of the first driving clubs was the Bensington Driving Club, founded in February 1807 at Bensington, Oxfordshire, also known as the Benson Driving Club when Bensington became Benson, and commonly referred to as "the B.D.C.".
Cook acquired a total of seventeen estates, of which Bradenham, Buscot and Coleshill passed to the National Trust.
Whereas Inspector Morse spent his time solving the surprisingly large number of murder cases in the city of Oxford, DI Hillary Greene restricts herself to the towns and villages in the north of Oxfordshire, where there also seem to be a large number of such cases.
They also funded the purchase of stretches of the coastline of Cornwall, Priory Cottages at Steventon in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), and supported appeals for money to purchase land in Derbyshire, the Lake District, Devon and Wiltshire.
Wise came from the village of Souldern in north Oxfordshire, where he played in the local amateur football team.
He was made a life peer as Baron Williams of Mostyn, of Great Tew in Oxfordshire in 1992 and became an opposition spokesman in the House of Lords on Legal Affairs, and later Northern Ireland.
Geoffrey the Baker (d. c. 1360), English chronicler, is also called Walter of Swinbroke, and was probably a secular clerk at Swinbrook in Oxfordshire.
The Goodenough Baronetcy, of Broadwell and Filkins in the Oxfordshire, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.
It is situated in the civil parish of Compton Beauchamp in the Vale of White Horse, very close to the small settlements of both Compton Beauchamp and Knighton, 2 miles from Uffington and 1 mile from the hilltop Uffington Castle.
Throughout most of its history the county was divided into fourteen hundreds, namely Bampton, Banbury, Binfield, Bloxham, Bullingdon, Chadlington, Dorchester, Ewelme, Langtree, Lewknor, Pyrton, Ploughley, Thame and Wootton.
Horspath is very proud of its cricketing traditions and the cricket club has one of the largest social memberships in Oxfordshire.
A famous group of ichnites was found in a limestone quarry at Ardley, 20 km Northeast of Oxford, England, in 1997.
The family mostly lived in London, but their country estate was Symeon's Court at Chilton in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire).
Robert Cleaver, his co-author, was in a neighbouring parish, Drayton.
Bell's career began with the UK Atomic Energy Research Establishment, near Harwell, Oxfordshire, known as AERE or Harwell Laboratory.
In 1510, Lady Catherine obtained letters of denization and that same year, on 8 August, was given a grant of the manors of Philberts at Bray, and Eaton at Appleton, both then in Berkshire.
The company was reorganized by directors sent from Morris Motors Limited factory in Cowley, and the production of Morris-Léon Bollée cars began at the end of 1925.
The London Parachute School is a BPA affiliated parachuting centre and skydiving drop zone at Chiltern Park Aerodrome at Ipsden, near Wallingford, Oxfordshire
Lyneham, Oxfordshire, a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, England
Molyns was the son of Sir Barentyne Molyns of Clapcot, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) and grandson of the earlier Michael Molyns MP.
Production of the Ital was swapped from Cowley to Longbridge in September 1982 to allow the Cowley plant to be upgraded for production of the forthcoming Austin Montego and Austin Maestro.
In disgust, Graves and Nancy moved to the village of Islip, the other side of Oxford.
Osgar was a 10th-century Abbot of Abingdon in the English county of Berkshire (now Oxfordshire).
Oxford Philomusica won the Oxford Times Charity and Community Award in the Oxfordshire Business Awards 2007 in recognition of its work in the community, including its artistic leadership of the celebrated Blackbird Leys Choir.
The first peal for the society (Stedman Triples at Drayton) was rung on the 10th anniversary of the foundation.
The society meets in Botley, Oxford, on the second Wednesday of each month (except during the summer).
The Pratt Baronetcy, of Coleshill in the County of Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), was a title in the Baronetage of England.
The name is interesting since the location is more than a mile from the hamlet of Sarsden and much closer to the village of Churchill.
Sir Thomas Penistone subsequently settled in Cornwell, Oxfordshire, and sometime after 1622, he married again, to Elizabeth Watson, daughter of Sir Thomas Watson and widow of Sir William Pope.
His second wife was Mary Fermor, daughter of Lawrence Fermor and Elizabeth Wenman of Minster Lovell, Oxfordshire, with whom he had one son, who died young, and two daughters.
In 1814 Short became perpetual curate of Drayton, Oxfordshire, but he resigned this post to concentrate on a college tutorship.
"Troy", a beautiful maze in a private garden at Troy Farm, Somerton, Oxfordshire is rather larger, and "Troy Town" maze on St Agnes, the Isles of Scilly, is a small maze of turf and small stones and is reputed to have been laid down in 1729 by the son of a local lighthouse keeper.
The first published report of a female with a 45,X karyotype was in 1959 by Dr. Charles Ford and colleagues in Harwell, Oxfordshire and Guy's Hospital in London.
With the view of securing for his monastery full title to some of its possessions he despatched to Rome one of the brotherhood, William Bryt by name, who, after a stay of some years, succeeded in getting appropriated to the monastery the churches of Holy Trinity and St. Mary de Lode, Gloucester, and that of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.
Sir Walter Stonor (died 1550) was an Oxfordshire knight and a Lieutenant of the Tower of London in the 16th century.
In 1819, this man, by now the Duke of Marlborough, became bankrupt and moved to his family home at Blenheim Palace at Woodstock in Oxfordshire.
Wynford was the son of William Best, 1st Baron Wynford, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and his wife, Mary Anne, daughter of Jerome Knapp Junior of Chilton in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), Clerk of the Haberdashers' Company, by his second wife, Sarah, daughter and eventual heiress of George Noyes of Southcote, Berkshire & Andover.
The couple settled on property in Weston-on-the-Green, Oxfordshire, which had come to Margaret through her first marriage.
Thomas, vicar of Sutton-under-Brailes, Warwickshire, an ejected minister of 1662; he later preached at Milton, Woodstock, and Long Combe, Oxfordshire, and was buried at Banbury on 27 January 1698.
The Grove based team locked out the front row yet again in San Marino, and Villeneuve retained his 100% pole position record for 1997.
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Air Seychelles ended its contract in the third quarter of 2011 with the UK Ministry of Defence to provide service from RAF Brize Norton base in Oxfordshire, England, to RAF Ascension Island and then on to RAF Mount Pleasant, Falkland Islands, in the South Atlantic.
It was situated in the centre of the county and bordering to the west the county of Oxfordshire near Thame.
With production of the Virage (soon rechristened "V8" following Vantage styling revisions) continuing at Newport Pagnell, a new factory was acquired at Bloxham, Oxfordshire that had previously been used to produce the Jaguar XJ220, where every DB7 would be built throughout its production run.
Bartholomew was the son of John Tipping of Chequers at Stokenchurch in Oxfordshire (now Buckinghamshire) and Woolley Park at Chaddleworth in Berkshire and his wife, Mary Spire.
The Battle of Danes Moor (or 'Dunsmoor') occurred between the Danes and the Saxons in 914 on Danes Moor between Culworth and Edgecote, north-east of Banbury, Oxfordshire, at a crossing of a tributary of the River Cherwell.
He played 2 further List A matches for Oxfordshire, against Cornwall and Gloucestershire in the 1975 Gillette Cup.
There was also a small detached portion of the hundred embedded in Oxfordshire close to Bicester.
In those coalfields to the south of the former Wales-Brabant High i.e. the South Wales, Bristol, Somerset, Forest of Dean and concealed Oxfordshire and Kent coalfields, the corresponding group is the South Wales Coal Measures Group.
Between 1953 and 1986 the Marian Fathers operated a boarding school, Divine Mercy College, at Fawley Court near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England.
It is from this village that many of the Elkington branches of that surname are supposed to have been descended, mostly the Leicestershire and Oxfordshire/Warwickshire branches come from that region.
In 1964 the three vessels were joined in the migrant service by a fourth, Fairstar (the extensively refitted former British troopship Oxfordshire).
The Fettiplace Baronetcy, of Childrey in the County of Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), was a title in the Baronetage of England.
Underwood was commissioned to write and perform music to honour the 1980s UK visit of Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, and has become known as a performer at festivals and cultural events in Oxfordshire.
Frederic was born at Stainton le Vale in Lincolnshire on 19 September 1868, the son of Francis Hugh Deane, Rector of Horsington and Stainton, and his wife and 2nd cousin, Emma Anne, the daughter of Robert Micklem Deane of Caversham in Oxfordshire (now Berkshire).
He was born in Oxfordshire, England, educated in Paris, served in the Papal Zouaves (alongside his brother Alfred, who died in the Battle of Mentana), and migrated to Australia in 1879 aboard the Lusitania (not the ship of the same name that sank in 1915).
In 1909 Macclesfield married Lilian Joanna Vere Boyle, the daughter of Major Charles Boyle, of Great Milton, Oxfordshire.
Henry de Ferrers had acquired lands at Stanford in the Vale, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) belonging to Godric the Sheriff, probably between 1055 and 1067.
He has paintings in the collections of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Museum and Tabley House.
John was the second son of Samuel Dunch of Pusey in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) and his wife, Dulcibella, the daughter of Sir John Moore of East Ilsley in Berkshire.
John Ingram Lockhart, of Shorfield House, near Rumsey, Hampshire, and Great Haseley House, Oxfordshire, was the youngest son of three children of James Lockhart of Melchett Park, Wiltshire, and London, (a partner in Lockhart, Wallace, and Co., bankers, Pall Mall) – himself a descendant of the old Scottish family of that name, and on the female side from the sister of Oliver Cromwell (Miss Gray, a member of the Society of Friends).
Tomlinson was educated at the Harry Cheshire High School (since renamed Baxter College), a state comprehensive school in Kidderminster, Worcestershire in the West Midlands England, followed by Oxford Brookes University in the city of Oxford in Oxfordshire, where he became Chairman of its Conservative Student Branch from 1995-99.
Originally called The Retreat, Morris renamed it after the Oxfordshire village of Kelmscott where he had lived at Kelmscott Manor from June 1871.
The school is located in Oxfordshire near the village of Kingham and the town of Chipping Norton.
Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons ("Four Seasons Manor", aka Le Manoir) is a luxury hotel-restaurant in the village of Great Milton near Oxford, in Oxfordshire, England.
He subsequently spent a year and a half at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane in London, before embarking on three influential years under his mentor Raymond Blanc at Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons in Oxfordshire, before moving to France to learn under Bernard Loiseau in Saulieu and Joël Robuchon in Paris.
The Modern Artists Gallery is a Contemporary Fine Art gallery located in the beautiful village of Whitchurch-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England.
He became rector of Britwell, Oxfordshire, on 3 May 1586, and of Alresford, Hampshire, in 1590; he also held the offices of chaplain of the Savoy Hospital and chaplain-in-ordinary to the queen.
Before his retirement to Oxfordshire he was a member of the Army and Navy Club and the Bath and County Club.
A top level cricketer offered trials to play for Worcestershire County Cricket Club, Horton turned down the opportunity to play English County cricket and Football League football for Huddersfield Town to stay in a warmer climate following completing his Oxford University Institute of Education Teacher Training Certificate from Culham College in Oxfordshire, England.
River Thame, a river that flows through Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, a tributary of the Thames
Three were built: the first for Manchester University, and one each for BP and for the Atlas Computer Laboratory in Oxfordshire.
The three morphs occurring in the population at the Cothill reserve in Oxfordshire, Britain, have been the subject of considerable genetic study (McNamara 1998), including research by E.B. Ford, R.A. Fisher and Denis Owen.
Segsbury Camp or Segsbury Castle is an Iron Age hill fort on the crest of the Berkshire Downs, near the Ridgeway above Wantage, in the Vale of White Horse district of Oxfordshire, England.
Sonning Regatta is the regatta of the village of Sonning in Berkshire and the hamlet of Sonning Eye in Oxfordshire, England, on the north and south banks of the River Thames.
The Group name is also applied to rocks of similar age across southern England from the Bristol Coalfield east to the concealed Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Kent Coalfields.
The ground was used in 1991 by Wales Minor Counties when they played Oxfordshire in the Minor Counties Championship.
It is based in a rural location in the small village of Little Wittenham in Oxfordshire, England.
The Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance is an organisation providing emergency medical services through the provision of a helicopter air ambulance covering the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire in the South East of England.
The events of the novel take place in the 15th century and primarily in the village of Ewelme in Oxfordshire, England.
Sir Thomas Chamberlayne, 1st Baronet (died 1643), of Wickham, Oxfordshire supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War.
Thomas Percy Plowden (born at Shiplake, Oxfordshire, England, 1672; died at Watten, 21 September 1745) was an English Jesuit administrator.
Titan Airways' Boeing 767 operated to the Falkland Islands on behalf of the UK Ministry of Defence for two years until September 2012; with twice weekly flights departing from RAF Brize Norton, in Oxfordshire, to RAF Mount Pleasant via RAF Ascension Island.
On 15 December 1955 the Oxfordshire was launched by Lady Dorothea Head, wife of the Minister for War, Lord Head.
Following early research at Harwell in Oxfordshire, the Government in 1954 selected Dounreay in Caithness as the centre of research and development.
William Cornwallis Cartwright (1825–1915), British Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire, 1868–1885
A statue of Lord Harcourt was commissioned (from Robert William Sievier) with the intention that it should be erected at Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire, but at the insistence of the royal family, it was placed, instead, in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.