Mongewell

Mongewell
Mongewell
Shire county	Oxfordshire;
Region	South East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Wallingford
Postcode district	OX10
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Oxfordshire
Ambulance	South Central
UK Parliament	Henley;
	List of places UK England Oxfordshire 51°35′10″N 1°07′08″W / 51.586°N 1.119°W

Mingewell (first syllable rhymes with 'cringe’) is a village in the

Thames, linked with the west bank at Winterbrook by Winterbrook Bridge. The earthwork Grim's Ditch, now part of The Ridgeway

long-distance footpath, passes through the northern part of it and is a scheduled ancient monument.

History

The ancient earthwork of

cuttings, with thousands of tonnes of earth displaced perhaps in the Bronze Age

in order to facilitate access by foot.

The place-name 'Mongewell' is first attested in an Anglo-Saxon will circa 966–75, where it appears as Mundingwillæ. It appears as Mongewel in the Domesday Book of 1086, and as Mungewell in the Book of Fees in 1242. The name means 'the spring or stream of Munda's people'.^[2]

The parish of Mongewell was mentioned in

civil parish in the 19th century, but in 1932 was split, mostly joining a new civil parish named Crowmarsh, but a small part was added to Rotherfield Greys parish.^[6]

Mongewell Park was once home to Shute Barrington, Bishop of Llandaff (1769–1782). Replacing the original Georgian Mongewell House of Barrington, a large brick mansion in William and Mary style was built in 1890 for Alexander Frazer whose initials can be seen on the lodge gates (Pedgley and Pedgley, 1990). After Fraser died in 1916, the house became a hospital for wounded officers in World War I. In 1918, it was sold to the American millionaire Howard Gould.^{[citation needed]}

He sold the house in 1939 and the

Carmel College, occupied Mongewell Park from 1948 to 1997. The school added several buildings, including its synagogue and the Julius Gottlieb Gallery and Boathouse, which were later listed.^[7]

As of June 2007, it was planned to redevelop the site for housing.

References

^ Grim's Ditch - section from the south of Mongewell Park Lodge to the south of Nuffield Church Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1006368)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
^ Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.329.
^ L. F. Salzman, ed. (1939). "The Domesday survey: The text". A history of the County of Oxford: Volume 1. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
^ Church of St John the Baptist Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1059580)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
^ Vision of Britain: Boundary map
^ Vision of Britain website
^ The Gallery building Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1379942)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 June 2013.

Mongewell

History

Mongewell Park

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