Wormleighton
Wormleighton is a village in
The original village was by the banks of the Cherwell and can still be seen as a series of humps and hollows on the East bank of the Oxford Canal.
The present village sits on the crest of the hill. At one end is St Peter's Church, which has a Norman tower and nave, made of local ironstone, with small added Gothic aisles. It has a graveyard around it, accessible to local sheep, and hints of a circular enclosure. A path from the church takes the visitor directly to the remains of the old 16th-century Manor house, of which the first view is a fine old chimney, then the great hall can be seen, part made of stone, part of brick. The gatehouse is Jacobean, and has a date of 1613 upon it.
The manor house was slighted by the Parliamentarians as it was a Royalist stronghold. The village was abandoned after the
The first mention of a
The Church has remaining box pews, a Norman font, and an interesting tomb to Robert Spencer which gives his death date in 1610 (he died in France) both in the new Gregorian calendar (used in France from 1582) and in the old Julian calendar which was still used in Britain until 1752.
Notable people from Wormleighton
References
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 3 January 2016.
- ISBN 0-9513311-3-2.
- ^ Public Records Office, C43/28 File 14.
- ISBN 0-521-78954-0
External links
Media related to Wormleighton at Wikimedia Commons