Bayworth
| Bayworth | |
|---|---|
Abingdon | |
| Postcode district | OX13 |
| Dialling code | 01865 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Oxfordshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| UK Parliament | |
| Website | Sunningwell Parish Council |
Bayworth is a
Toponym
Bayworth's toponym has evolved from Baegenweorthe in the 10th century through Baiorôe in the 11th century, Baiwurde in the 12th century and Beyworth in the 13th century before reaching its current form.[1]
Manor
In 956 the
In 1545 the manors of Sunningwell and Bayworth were granted to Robert Browne (a goldsmith), Christopher Edmondes and William Wenlowe.[1] They seem to have been speculators who bought them for a quick profit, as they alienated them in 1546.[1] The buyer was John Williams, later Baron Williams of Thame.[1] Baron Williams died in 1559 without a male heir, and the manors passed to his elder daughter Margery and her husband Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys.[1] In 1583 Margery sold Sunningwell and Bayworth to her younger sister Isabel and her second husband Richard Huddleston.[1] By 1589 Richard and Isabel were dead and had left the two manors mortgaged to a Richard Martin.[1]
In 1597 Martin sold the manors to the Elizabethan general Sir Thomas Baskerville, but he died on a campaign in Picardy that year so he probably never lived there.[1] Baskerville's son, the antiquarian Hannibal Baskerville (1597–1668), did live at Bayworth.[1] He was a philanthropist who built a barn at Bayworth for beggars to stay in.[1] The Baskervilles also had a mansion Bayworth, but it has not survived.[1] Hannibal was succeeded by his son Thomas Baskerville and grandson Matthew Baskerville, but the latter died in 1720–21 with no legitimate heir.[1] During his lifetime Matthew Baskerville had sold Sunningwell and Bayworth in return for an annuity of £80 to Sir John Stonehouse, lord of the manor of Radley.[1] Sunningwell and Bayworth remained with the Stonehouse family and their successors the Bowyers until about 1884, when an Edgar John Disney of Ingatestone in Essex foreclosed a mortgage on the manor.[1] He retained the manor for the rest of his life, but his son Edgar Norton Disney sold most of it in 1912.[1]
Chapels
There was a chapel in the village by 1329, when Hugh Paynel endowed it for Mass to be said there for the souls of himself and his ancestors.
Residential development
Most of the houses in Bayworth are post-war semi-detached and terraced properties, grouped around a small village green, at the junction of Quarry Road and Green Lane. Bayworth Park, to the north of the settlement, is a residential mobile home park.
References
Sources
- Page, W.H.; Ditchfield, P.H., eds. (1924). A History of the County of Berkshire, Volume 4. Victoria County History. pp. 423–427.
External links
Media related to Bayworth at Wikimedia Commons