Pyrton
Pyrton
Archaeology
In 1957 a late Iron Age cremation burial from the first half of the 1st century was discovered on Pyrton Heath.[3] The burial pit contained two Belgic butt beakers, a bowl and a dish.[4] The smaller of the beakers contained cremated human remains and fragments of a bronze brooch. The finder donated all the items to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.[4]
Strip parish
The ancient
Manor
Pyrton was a royal estate in 774, when King
The statesman Richard Hampden leased the manor from 1669 until his death in 1695, after which it remained with his widow until 1707. The Earl of Macclesfield leased the manor from 1751. A Hugh Hamersley of Old Windsor leased the manor from 1781. The lease remained with his descendants until 1870 when his grandson, another Hugh Hamersley, seems to have bought the manor from the Dean and Chapter of St. George's Chapel.
In 1909 Hugh's younger son Edward Samuel Hamersley died without heir and his widow gave Pyrton to her nephew, Major Hugh C.C. Ducat, who changed his surname to Ducat Hamersley. In 1945 the Major left the estate to his son, Colonel Hugh Ducat Hamersley, who still held the estate in the 1960s.
Manor house
Pyrton had a Medieval
Parish church
Pyrton has had a
Vicarage
Pyrton Vicarage is a lath and plaster house that was built before 1637. The present brick-built south front was added late in the 18th century. By 1635 Pyrton also had a substantial rectory, but by 1777 it was a ruin and towards the end of the 18th century it was demolished. The present Georgian rectory was built in its place and completed in 1788.[11] From about 1885 this Rectory was used to house successive vicars of the adjacent Shirburn parish. In 1943 the two benefices were merged, bringing this unusual housing arrangement to an end.[5]
Railway
The
Air crash
On 2 September 1943 a
See also
- Cowleaze Wood near Lewknor, where an RAF Handley Page Halifax Mk III aircraft crashed in March 1944.
- Tadmarton in north Oxfordshire, where an RAF Vickers Wellington B Mk III aircraft crashed in May 1944.
References
- Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
- ^ Mills & Room 2003, s.v. Pyrton.
- ^ Case 1958, pp. 139–140.
- ^ a b Case 1958, p. 140
- ^ a b c d e f Lobel 1964, pp. 138–178
- ^ a b Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 733.
- ^ Historic England. "Pyrton Manor (Grade II*) (1368846)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
- ^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 732.
- ^ Historic England. "Church of St Mary (Grade II*) (1059730)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
- A Church Near You. Church of England. Archived from the originalon 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
- ^ Historic England. "Old Shirburn Vicarage (Grade II) (1284530)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
- ^ "History". Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway.
- ^ Oppitz 2000, p. 22.
- ^ a b "02.09.1944 No 11 O.T.U. Wellington IC R 1451 KX-P Fl/Sgt. Sydney G. Rickersley". Archive Report: Allied Forces. Aircrew Remembered. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
Sources
- Case, Humphrey (1958). "Notes and News: A Late Belgic Burial at Watlington, Oxon". Oxoniensia. XXIII. Oxford Architectural and Historical Society: 139–141.
- Emery, Frank (1974). The Oxfordshire Landscape. The Making of the English Landscape. London: ISBN 0-340-04301-6.
- Hammond, Madeleine (1998). "The Anglo-Saxon Estate of Readanora and the Manor of Pyrton, Oxfordshire". ISSN 0308-5562.
- Lobel, Mary D, ed. (1964). A History of the County of Oxford. Victoria County History. Vol. 8: Lewknor and Pyrton Hundreds. London: Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research. pp. 138–178.
- Mills, AD; ISBN 0-19-852758-6.[page needed]
- Oppitz, Leslie (2000). Lost Railways of the Chilterns. Newbury: Countryside Books. pp. 20–23. ISBN 1-85306-643-5.
- Sherwood, Jennifer; ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
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