Chiselhampton

Coordinates: 51°41′06″N 1°08′35″W / 51.685°N 1.143°W / 51.685; -1.143
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Chiselhampton
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townOxford
Postcode districtOX44
Dialling code01865
PoliceThames Valley
FireOxfordshire
AmbulanceSouth Central
UK Parliament
WebsiteThe Parish of Stadhampton.com
List of places
UK
England
Oxfordshire
51°41′06″N 1°08′35″W / 51.685°N 1.143°W / 51.685; -1.143

Chiselhampton is a village in the

civil parish of Stadhampton, on the River Thame, in the South Oxfordshire district, in the county of Oxfordshire, England. It is about 6 miles (10 km) southeast of Oxford. In 1931 the parish named Chislehampton had a population of 136.[1] On 1 April 1932 the parish was abolished and merged with Stadhampton.[2]

Toponym

"Chisel" is derived from the old English ceosel or cisel meaning "gravel" or "shingle", referring to the river gravel beside the Thame on which some of the village is built. In a document dated 1147 the toponym is spelt Chiselentona.[3] Chislehampton came into use later in the same century and was still in use in 1974.[4] A document dated 1517 calls the village Chessyllyngton. It has been colloquially called Chisleton.[3]

Manors and houses

The

Honour of Dudley.[3] In 1536 the principal manor of Chiselhampton passed to Thomas Doyley of Hambleden in Buckinghamshire. The Doyley family built a substantial house in Chiselhampton, possibly towards the end of the 16th century. Maps of 1628 and 1743 record it as a four-gabled mansion with a large dovecote and an orchard, and an estate plan of 1741–42 shows the house's west front as having eight bays.[3]

Chiselhampton's oldest building is Camoys or Camoise Court, a

public house, the 17th-century Coach and Horses Inn.[3][8][9]

In the 18th century the Doyley family's wealth declined, so in 1748 Sir Thomas Doyley sold the Chiselhampton and Camoys manors to Charles Peers of Olney, Buckinghamshire. The combined manor was still with the Peers family in 1958.[3] In the 1740s a surveyor for the Doyleys reported that the late-16th-century mansion was "a very old inconvenient building part brick, part stone" whose outbuildings were ruinous, and concluded that they and the house would "scarce pay for pulling down and yet were not good enough to keep up".[3] Only the dovecote and the walls of the kitchen garden were fit to retain. The Doyleys seem to have lacked the means to rebuild the house, but in 1766 the new owner Charles Peers had a new house designed. In 1768 it was completed on a new site overlooking the River Thame and the old Doyley mansion was demolished.

Peers' Chistleton or Chiselhampton House is a brick

Grade II* listed building.[11]

Chapel and parish church

Inside St Katherine's parish church

By 1146 Chiselhampton had a

peculier of Dorchester Abbey and seems not to have been an independent parish. St Mary's had no graveyard: villagers buried their dead at Stadhampton, which was another of Dorchester Abbey's chapels and Peculiers.[12] St Mary's chapel remained under Dorchester Abbey until the dissolution of the monasteries in 1536, when Stadhampton became a parish separate from Dorchester. Chiselhampton seems then to have become a chapelry of Stadhampton. Despite this new status, until about 1835 clergy for both Chiselhampton and Stadhampton were licensed not by the Bishop of Oxford but by the peculier of Dorchester. After the English Reformation Chiselhampton and Stadhampton always shared the same parish clergy.[12]

Until 1706 St Mary's chapel was reported to be in a good state of repair, but by 1717 the parish curate had taken the villagers to the peculiar court in Dorchester for failing to pay the church rate for the building's upkeep. In 1763

consecrated it. Peers provided the new church with a graveyard to spare villagers from having to bury their dead at Stadhampton. He dispensed with the Norman chapel's dedication to Saint Mary and had the new church dedicated to Saint Katherine. With the new church Chiselhampton was made a parish in its own right, but it continued to share the same parish clergy as Stadhampton.[3]

St Katherine's is a

civil parishes had already been reunited in 1932. St Katherine's church is vested in the Churches Conservation Trust.[17] Services are still held in St Katherine's three or four times a year, including reenactments of historic Anglican liturgy and west gallery music
.

Bridge and roads

Chiselhampton has long been important as a crossing over the River Thame. A bridge has existed since at least 1398, when a presentment complained that "the King's road" at "Cheselhampton Brygwey"[18] was flooded so that "men with horses and carts cannot pass thereby".[19] In 1444 the villagers of Chiselhampton were granted pontage: the right to levy a toll to maintain the bridge. At that time it had timber spans built on stone piers. A 1628 estate map recorded the bridge as "Doyley Bridge". Over the years it has been rebuilt with stone arches, altered by successive repairs, extended, and in 1899 widened with steel troughing. It is now 178 feet (54 m) long and has eight stone arches,[3] of which the southern four are substantially 16th-century.[20][21]

By the time the

skirmish at Chalgrove Field, mortally wounding one of the Parliamentarian commanders, Colonel John Hampden. The victorious Prince and his force then returned to Oxford over the bridge bringing 120 prisoners, most of them from Chinnor.[22]

After the

Abingdon and Stadhampton and historically in Chiselhampton it has been called Abingdon Lane. Both roads are shown on estate maps dated 1628 and 1743.[3] The name of the Coach and Horses public house suggests that the main road may have been a stagecoach route, but there is no evidence that either road was ever a turnpike.[24]
Since the early 1920s the main road has been classified B480 and the Clifton Hampden road has been classified B4015.

Air crash

Armstrong Whitworth Whitley V similar to Z6667, which crashed on Chiselhampton Hill

On 5 July 1941 an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley V bomber aircraft, Z6667 of No. 10 Operational Training Unit RAF based at Abingdon,[25] was on a night training flight when it broke up over Oxfordshire, crashed on Chiselhampton Hill and caught fire on impact. The crash was variously attributed to either a Luftwaffe night fighter or friendly fire by a local anti-aircraft unit. All six crewmen were killed.[26] The pilot, RAF Flt Sgt AEW Lynch, is buried at Heston in Middlesex. Three of his crew were members of the Royal Canadian Air Force. Two are buried at Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey, and the other is buried at Tomnahurich in Inverness-shire. The other two crewmen were members of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. They are buried at Acklam and Cottingham in Yorkshire[26]

See also

References

  1. A Vision of Britain through Time
    . Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  2. ^ "Relationships and changes Chislehampton AP/CP/Ch through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Lobel 1962, pp. 5–16.
  4. ^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, pp. 541–543.
  5. ^ a b c d Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 542.
  6. ^ Historic England. "Camoys Court (Grade II*) (1193652)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  7. ^ "Chiselhampton, the Village c.1960". Francis Frith. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  8. ^ "Chiselhampton, the Coach and Horses c.1960". Francis Frith. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  9. ^ The Coach & Horses[permanent dead link]
  10. ^ "Chiselhampton, House c.1960". Francis Frith. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  11. ^ Historic England. "hiselhampton House (Grade II*) (1048023)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  12. ^ a b Lobel 1962, pp. 81–92.
  13. ^ a b Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 541.
  14. ^ "Chiselhampton". Oxfordshire Churches & Chapels. Brian Curtis. Archived from the original on 21 February 2015. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  15. ^ "Oxfordshire Chiselhampton St Katherine". West Gallery Churches. Edwin & Sheila Macadam. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  16. ^ Historic England. "Church of St Katherine (Grade II*) (1193807)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  17. ^ "St Katherine's Church, Chiselhampton, Oxfordshire". Churches Conservation Trust. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  18. ^ Jervoise 1932, p. 151.
  19. ^ Jervoise 1932, p. 152.
  20. ^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 543.
  21. ^ a b Historic England. "Chiselhampton Bridge (Grade II) (1048022)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  22. ^ "Battle of Chalgrove Field". Chalgrove.info. Chalgrove Communicating. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  23. ^ Historic England. "Chislehampton Bridge (1006362)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  24. ^ "Turnpike Trusts in England". Turnpike Roads in England & Wales. Alan Rosevear. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  25. ^ Minns, Pat. "Aircraft Losses 1939–42". RAF Abingdon 10 OTU. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  26. ^ a b "04/05.07.1941 No. 10 O.T.U. Whitley V Z6667 Fl/Sgt. Lynch". Archive Report: Allied Forces. Aircrew Remembered. Retrieved 13 November 2015.

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