Chastleton

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Chastleton
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Population153 (2011 Census)
OS grid reference[[[:Template:Ordnance Survey url]] SP2429]
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  • Chastleton
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Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townMoreton-in-Marsh
Postcode districtGL56
Dialling code01451
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Chastleton is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold Hills in Oxfordshire, England, about 4 miles (6.4 km) northeast of Stow-on-the-Wold. Chastleton is in the extreme northwest of Oxfordshire, on the boundaries with both Gloucestershire and Warwickshire. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 153.[1]

Archaeology

Chastleton Barrow or Burrow is an Iron Age hill fort southeast of the village. It is fortified with a single bank built of oolite and earth that encloses an area of about 3.5 acres (1.4 ha).Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. Part of the fort was excavated in about 1881 and sections of the bank and areas near it were excavated in 1928–29.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. Hearths were found, along with Iron Age pottery and other artefacts that are now held at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. These artefacts were used to date the fort as Early Iron Age,Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. which in Britain is about 800 to 400 BC. The fort is now marked by a ring of mature trees.

In the eastern part of the parish are a number of prehistoric sites including a tumulus that still retains a few of the stones that formed its burial chamber.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. Archaeological examination of the surface at the centre of the tumulus found three flints that showed signs of being worked and two small fragments of human skull.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. At Lower Brookend Farm in the north of the parish are the remains of a linear fishpond formed by damming a brook.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. It is either medieval or post-medievalLua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. and seems to have been abandoned by about 1800.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.

Manor

The earliest known record of the manor is from 777, when Offa, King of Mercia, gave land at Chastleton to Eynsham Abbey. The name derives from Old English; the prefix likely from ceastel, signifying a cairn or boundary marker, and the suffix from ton, a town.[2] In the Domesday Book, the manor is recorded as Cestitone, and its landowners as Odo, the Bishop of Bayeux, Henry de Ferrers and Urse d'Abetot. Later, in the Middle Ages, the manor's owners included Robert D'Oyly, the likely builder of Oxford Castle, and Thomas Chaucer, son of Geoffrey.[2]

Next to the parish church is Chastleton House, one of England's finest and most complete Jacobean houses, and a Grade I listed building.[3] Completed in 1612, the house has been occupied by members of the Jones family since 1602.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. It is now owned by The National Trust who opened the property to the public in 1997 after six years of conservation work. The house is full of objects accumulated by the family over the years: rare tapestries, portraits, furniture, as well as personal belongings, some just lying around, such as walking sticks and Wellington boots.[4] The gardens are typically Elizabethan and Jacobean, with a ring of topiary at their centre. The middle lawn is regarded as the birthplace of croquet and visitors may play there today with equipment provided by the National Trust.

Parish church

St Mary the Virgin parish church, seen from the southwest

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References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Area selected: West Oxfordshire (Non-Metropolitan District)". Neighbourhood Statistics: Full Dataset View. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 22 June 2011. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
  2. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Conservation Area Character Appraisal - Chastleton" (PDF). West Oxfordshire District Council. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 September 2012.
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  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Chastleton House". The National Trust. Archived from the original on 21 July 2009.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Davies, Peter (12 December 2006). "Chastleton S Mary V". Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers. Central Council of Church Bell Ringers. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
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Sources

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