Benson to Bruern – Recent Victoria County History Discoveries from the Chilterns to Wychwood - Oxfordshire FHS talk 21 March 2016

On Monday, 21 March 2016 Simon Townley will talk to Oxfordshire FHS on:

Benson to Bruern – Recent Victoria County History Discoveries from the Chilterns to Wychwood

This talk will pick out some of the highlights from the Victoria County History’s recent work on Ewelme Hundred (publication in the spring), and its ongoing work on the Wychwood area. Ewelme Hundred stretched from the Thames around Benson and Warborough to the Chiltern uplands around Nettlebed, with its medieval brick and pottery industry. Ewelme is widely known for its Chaucer connections and its 15th-century almshouses, while Benson was successively an Anglo-Saxon royal centre, a coaching stop, and site of the modern RAF station. The ongoing Wychwood work takes in a dozen parishes in and around the ancient Forest, including Shipton-under-Wychwood and the tiny hamlet of Bruern, where the impact of the medieval abbey is still clearly evident in the local landscape.

We meet at the Exeter Hall, Oxford Road, Kidlington, OX5 1AB, with the talk starting at 8:00pm. Doors open at 7:15pm, when there will be advisors offering computer and genealogy help, books for sale, and tea and coffee available.

Non-members are very welcome.
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