Tackley

Coordinates: 51°52′48″N 1°18′29″W / 51.880°N 1.308°W / 51.880; -1.308
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Tackley
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townKidlington
Postcode districtOX5
Dialling code01869
PoliceThames Valley
FireOxfordshire
AmbulanceSouth Central
UK Parliament
WebsiteTackley – Oxfordshire
List of places
UK
England
Oxfordshire
51°52′48″N 1°18′29″W / 51.880°N 1.308°W / 51.880; -1.308

Tackley is a village and

2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 998.[1]

Archaeology

The course of

Roman road
passes through the parish just south of the village.

Manor

Tackley has existed since

dovecotes, remain. Another 17th-century house, Court Farm (or Base Court), still survives but its interior was completely remodelled in the 1950s. Court Farm is near the site of a 12th-century moated house, and has a set of 17th century fish ponds,[2]
constructed by John Harborne (1582–1651), a wealthy merchant from the Middle Temple who purchased the manor of Tackley in 1612, and had embarked on creating there a new mansion with an elaborate water garden. The remains of one square and two triangular ponds, no doubt originally containing fish, are visible today.[2][3] The manor lay on a tributary of the River Cherwell, and Harborne may well have been a fisherman. He was a friend of the publisher John Jackson,[who?] who published in 1623 a plan of Harborne's water garden in its completed state, by Gervase Markham in the third edition of his Cheape and good husbandry for the well-ordering of all beasts, and fowles, and for the generall cure of their diseases.[4][5]

Churches

St Nicholas' parish church: blocked 11th-century Saxon arcade on the north side of the nave
St Nicholas' parish church: 17th-century date stone under the chancel gable

Church of England

The Church of England parish church of Saint Nicholas is cruciform. It dates from the 11th century and has several remnants of its original Saxon stonework. The south aisle, east windows and lower part of the tower are 13th century. In the 15th century the Perpendicular Gothic clerestory and upper part of the tower were built and both transepts were rebuilt. The north transept was rebuilt again in 1616 as a family chapel for John Harbourne.[6] In 1862 lightning struck and damaged the church,[6] and in 1864 the Oxford Diocesan architect, the Gothic Revivalist G.E. Street directed a restoration of St. Nicholas' that the 20th century critics Jennifer Sherwood and Nikolaus Pevsner called "rather insensitive".[7]

The church

King Henry VIII in 1535, both abbeys had ceased to hold any property in the parish.[2] From 1725 every Rector of Tackley was also a fellow of St John's College, Oxford. Several were distinguished scholars but most had several other parishes and were absentee rectors of Tackley.[2] Since 1976 St. Nicholas' has belonged to a united Church of England Benefice with the neighbouring parishes of North Aston and Steeple Aston
.

Methodist

Tackley

Anglicans and Methodists hold monthly ecumenical
services together.

Economic and social history

Mill and bridge

The Domesday Book records that in 1086 there was a watermill, Catsham Mill, on the River Cherwell between Tackley and Northbrook 1 mile (1.6 km) to the north. A second mill had been built at Catsham by 1176. A stream between Tackley and Nethercott was being used to power an overshot mill by 1622. In 1767 it was still in use and was called Pullback Mill, but it was disused by the 1840s.[2] There was a bridge over the Cherwell at Catsham Mill. It was first recorded in 1338, needed repair by 1444 and had been replaced by a ford by 1617. A wooden bridge replaced it around 1637 and a stone bridge had been built again by 1750. Today neither the bridge nor Catsham Mill survive.[2]

Land tenure

Tackley village

The parish originally shared a single

open field system but later these were separated into two open field systems, one for each Tackley and Nethercott. Tackley's fields were enclosed in the 16th and 17th centuries but open-field farming survived in Nethercott until 1873. The landowners rejected enclosure proposals in 1849, 1853 and 1861. A scheme was finally agreed in 1873 and a Parliamentary Enclosure Act was passed for the parish [2] Balliol College, Oxford owned land at Nethercott and was one of the landowners who objected to the earlier enclosure proposals. Soon after the act was finally passed the college sold its holdings there. St. John's College, Oxford also owned land at Nethercott and objected to the earlier enclosure proposals. It sold its land to Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1948 and 1953.[2] A map of 1608 records a hamlet at Whitehill, 0.5 miles (800 m) south of Tackley village.[11] Its lands were enclosed by Act of Parliament in 1795 and the hamlet seems to have quickly disappeared thereafter.[11]

17th and 18th centuries

A narrowboat near Pigeon's Lock on the Oxford Canal

The earliest known record of a

lock, 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Tackley. In 1788 the canal was extended past Tackley to the outskirts of Oxford.[12]

19th century

Sturdy's Castle public house, on the A4260 road just over 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest of the village

Early in the 19th century Tackley had two

site of special scientific interest.[13]

20th century

Since 2004 Tackley Village Hall has also housed a community shop and Post Office

Tackley Football Club was founded in 1907.[14] It plays in Witney and District Football Association Division Two.[15] Tackley also has a Cricket Club.[16] The village, and especially the Nethercott neighbourhood, has expanded considerably since the railway station opened in 1931. It has evolved from a primarily agricultural community into one with a significant commuter population. In the south of the parish on Whitehill overlooking the River Cherwell is a satellite ground station[17] that the Marconi Company built for Mercury Communications in 1986. Mercury was absorbed by its parent company Cable & Wireless in 1997, which continues to operate the station.[18] Tackley's last shops closed in 2001, so in 2004 the community opened a shop and post office, which share premises with the village hall and are partly staffed by volunteers.[19]

Air crash

On Thursday 13 July 2006 a

Harrier GR9 aircraft flying from RAF Cottesmore to RAF Fairford crashed about 1.2 miles (2 km) west of Tackley, near Sturdy's Castle public house. It would appear that the pilot having had a problem, and seeing Woodstock ahead, managed to turn around and eject at a very low height. The pilot ejected and survived uninjured. An off-duty policeman who was driving close to the scene of the crash suffered shock when his car was hit by debris. The Oxford — Banbury A4260 road was closed for several days as the crash was investigated and a team from MOD St Athan removed the wreckage.[20]

Women's Institute

Court Farm Barns are now the headquarters of the Oxfordshire Federation of Women's Institutes.[21]

Notable residents

References

  1. Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics
    . Retrieved 30 July 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Crossley et al. 1983, pp. 194–208.
  3. ^ Whittle & Taylor 1994[page needed]
  4. ^ Markham 1623, p. 145.
  5. ^ Markham's book was first published 1616 by Roger Jackson. The third edition shows a woodcut diagram entitled "A platforme for ponds, which the printer hath added to the ensuing discourse for the better satisfaction and delight of such as having a convenient plot of ground for the same purpose shall be desirous to make any ponds for increase and store of fish" (Bibliotheca Piscatoria, p. 145).
  6. ^ a b Sherwood 1989, p. 185.
  7. ^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, pp. 692–693.
  8. ^ Oxford Diocesan Guild of Church Bell ringers, Witney and Woodstock Branch
  9. ^ a b Dovemaster (25 June 2010). "Founders". Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers. Central Council of Church Bell Ringers. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
  10. ^ a b c d Davies, Peter (8 December 2006). "Tackley S Nicholas". Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers. Central Council of Church Bell Ringers. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
  11. ^ a b Rowley 1978, p. 187.
  12. ^ Compton 1976, p. 37.
  13. ^ "Oxfordshire Wildlife and Landscape Study".
  14. ^ Tackley Football Club
  15. ^ Witney and District Football Association
  16. ^ "Tackley Village Hall". Tackley – Oxfordshire. Tackley Parish Council. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
  17. ISBN 978-0-319-22913-2
    .
  18. ^ "Cable and Wireless". Satellite Industry Links. Microcom Systems Ltd. 1998–2012. Retrieved 7 October 2013.
  19. ^ The Plunkett Foundation
  20. ^ "RAF investigators start to remove Harrier crash wreckage". Oxford Mail. Newsquest. 17 July 2006.
  21. ^ Oxfordshire Federation of Women's Institutes
  22. ^ "Anthony Rolfe Johnson: British tenor who excelled in the works of Britten, Mozart and Monteverdi". The Independent. 29 July 2010. Archived from the original on 26 May 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
  23. ^ "When FourFourTwo met Christian Pulisic: "I was never really thinking about going to Liverpool…"". FourFourTwo. 2 January 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2021.

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