Victoria County History of Oxfordshire XXI : Chipping Norton and Area including Hook Norton and the Rollrights (Victoria County History)

Townley, Simon/ Draper, Simon/ Mileson, Stephen

Victoria County History（2024/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 440 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781904356578
• DDC分類 942.571

Full Description

This volume focuses on the Cotswold market town of Chipping Norton and on half a dozen surrounding rural parishes, including Hook Norton and the Rollrights. Drawing on intensive archival research, the authors look in detail at the town's origins, growth, and buildings, and at its economic, social, political, and religious history up to the present day, including its association with the medieval wool trade and the later development of the famous Bliss tweed mill. The surrounding parishes were predominantly agricultural and were reliant on traditional Cotswold sheep-corn farming, although Hook Norton developed significant ironstone quarrying in the 1880s-1940s, and is well known for its still-functioning Victorian brewery. The parishes' wider histories are fully explored, notable features including parks and country houses, the remains (at Swerford) of a motte-and-bailey castle, and the prehistoric Rollright Stones.

Contents

Chipping Norton and Area: an Overview
Chipping Norton Borough
Boundaries, Landscape, and Population
Communications
Development of the Town
Secular Town Buildings
Landownership
Urban Economic History
Agriculture
Town, Manorial, and Parish Government
Social and Political History
Religious History

Rural Parishes
Hook Norton
Over Norton
Great Rollright
Little Rollright
Salford
Swerford and Showell