Finstock

Coordinates: 51°50′49″N 1°28′37″W / 51.847°N 1.477°W / 51.847; -1.477
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Finstock
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townChipping Norton
Postcode districtOX7
Dialling code01993
PoliceThames Valley
FireOxfordshire
AmbulanceSouth Central
UK Parliament
WebsiteFinstock Village & Community
List of places
UK
England
Oxfordshire
51°50′49″N 1°28′37″W / 51.847°N 1.477°W / 51.847; -1.477

Finstock is a village and

civil parish about 2 miles (3 km) south of Charlbury in Oxfordshire
, England. [1] The parish is bounded to the northeast by the
Roman road
, and on other sides by field boundaries. [2] The
ancient parish of Charlbury. Finstock became a separate civil parish in the late 19th century.[4]

Name

Toponym

Finstock : ( Fin..stock )

The name element ' Fin ' from Old English ' fîna ' ( ” woodpecker ” ). [a]

The name element ' stock ' from Old English ' stoc ' ( ” place, house, dwelling ” ). [b]

  • Wood stack [c]

The name element ' Fin ' from Old English ' fîn ' ( ” heap, pile ” ). [d]

The name element ' stock ' from Old English ' stoc ' ( ” stump, stake, log ” ). [e]

See also

Examples of place names with a similar etymology might include :

  • Finmere, Oxfordshire : Woodpecker pond


Archaeology

A palaeolithic

potsherds
have been found in the parish.

Manor

It is thought that there was a settlement of some kind here at the time of the

Ditchley Park[10] from 1592 to 1776. The college then resumed direct control until 1857, when the lordship of the manor passed to Francis Spencer, 2nd Lord Churchill of Wychwood, the owner of Cornbury Park.[11]

It remains in the possession of Cornbury Park today although most of the manorial rights have lapsed and much of the village of Finstock is now freehold.[

Manor House is 17th-century and has a date stone saying 1660. It is an L-shaped house with three gables on each of its longer sides and an attic window in each gable. All the attic windows in the gables are elliptical[12] and one is oeil-de-boeuf. The roof is of Stonesfield slate. The house is a Grade II* listed building.[13]

Finstock Manor House, built in 1660

Parish church

Holy Trinity Church of England parish church is a Gothic Revival building of 1841.[12] Its ornate chancel was added in 1905 and its elaborate south window by the architect Morley Horder in 1929.[12]

Worcester College, Oxford and after meeting Eliot in 1923 (with whom he shared a love of cats) steadily drew him towards Anglicanism
and agreed to baptise him.

He was then living in "a fine seventeenth century gabled house at Finstock", Finstock Manor,

Ripon College, Cuddesdon and ordained at Christ Church, Oxford.[18]

Economic and social history

Finstock, together with its neighbours

Wychwood Forest that used to stretch from Woodstock to Burford. Much of the forest land was cleared for growing arable crops and during the Middle Ages barley was the main crop in Finstock. Other land was used for sheep grazing and many of the people of Finstock were involved in the wool industry — the carding being done by men and boys and the spinning by women. Glove making at the village hall site by the women and agricultural labouring on nearby land by the men and boys, used to be the principal occupations of the people of Finstock in the earlier part of the 20th century.[citation needed
]

Finstock is now a separate civil and

oilseed rape, but there is still some mixed farming.[citation needed
]

The building of the

Chipping Norton & Oxford.[citation needed
]

Finstock Church of England Primary School, built in 1860

Amenities

Finstock has one

public house: The Plough Inn.[20] A second, The Crown, has been closed and converted into a house. Finstock has a combined village shop
and sub-post office.

Finstock railway station is on the Cotswold Line. The station is between Finstock and the hamlet of Fawler. Pulhams Coaches operate a semi-regular bus service through Finstock, between Witney and Chipping Norton.

Finstock has a

Prime Minister in May 2016.[22] It was built on the site of the old village hall that was originally built as a glove factory in 1929, and purchased as a village hall in 1939.[23] The village hall has many regular users including a baby and toddler group, Rainbows/Brownies/Guides, Yoga, Pilates, table tennis, short-mat bowls, darts, craft club, painting, Evenlode Folk Club, Finstock Local History Society, and others.[24]

The Plough Inn, Finstock

Notes

  1. ^ Old English fîna : woodpecker [6]
  2. ^ Old English stoc : 1 stump, stake, log , 2 place, house, dwelling, [7]
  3. ^ The name might have been derived when much of the forest land was cleared for growing arable crops
  4. ^ Old English fîn : heap, pile [6]
  5. ^ Old English stoc : 1 stump, stake, log , 2 place, house, dwelling, [7]

Citations

Village shop and post office in School Road
  1. ^ "MAGiC MaP : Finstock village, Oxfordshire". Natural England - Magic in the Cloud.
  2. ^ "MAGiC MaP : Finstock parish, Oxfordshire". Natural England - Magic in the Cloud.
  3. Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics
    . Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  4. ^ Colvin et al. 1972, pp. 127–157.
  5. ^ *"Key to English Place-Names : Finstock". University of Nottingham. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  6. ^ a b Clark Hall 1916, p. 230.
  7. ^ a b Clark Hall 1916, p. 587.
  8. ^ Tyldesley 1983, p. 143.
  9. ^ Tyldesley 1983, p. 144.
  10. ^ Ditchley website
  11. ^ Cornbury Park
  12. ^ a b c Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 605.
  13. ^ Historic England. "Finstock Manor House (Grade II*) (1367894)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 22 January 2012.
  14. ^ Finstock website Archived 30 April 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  15. ^ Court, John M. "Burnett Hillman Streeter* (17th November 1874 – 10th September 1937)". The Expository Times.
  16. ^ Adamson & Sencourt 1971[page needed]
  17. ^ "Biography". www.barbara-pym.org. Archived from the original on 26 February 2017. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  18. ^ "Crockford's Clerical Directory: The Revd Paul John Mansell". Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  19. ^ Finstock website: Parish church
  20. ^ The Plough Inn
  21. ^ "C.E. Primary School". Archived from the original on 6 July 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  22. ^ "David Cameron officially opens new Finstock Village Hall".
  23. ^ Original deeds held by Finstock Parish Council
  24. ^ Finstock Village Hall Trustees, http://www.finstock.org.uk/village-hall/

Sources

17th-century thatched cottage in the High Street
  • Reaney, P H (1969). The Origin of English Place Names. Routledge & Kegan Paul.
  • Clark Hall, John R. (1916). A Concise Anglo−Saxon Dictionary, Second Edition. The Macmillan Company.

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