A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18. Originally published by Boydell & Brewer for the Institute of Historical Research, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2016.
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Plates
The local landscape
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Looking south from Swyncombe Downs across the undulating Chiltern foothills.
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Looking west towards the clay vale and the Thames, down the wooded Chiltern scarp near Nuffield.
Early estate maps
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Newington in 1595 (north to left), showing rectory house, church, and manor house ('Mr Oglethorps'), and houses at Newington green.
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Warborough green in 1606, showing church and vicarage and (west of the road) the parsonage barns.
Early estate maps
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Huntercombe (in Nuffield) in 1665, showing the manor house north of the Henley road (labelled the 'way from Gloucester').
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Great Haseley church and manor house in 1729, showing adjoining open fields and the surviving medieval barn north of the church.
Early estate maps
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The shared fields of Benson, Ewelme, and Berrick Salome in 1788; blue-coloured strips owed tithe to Benson, yellow to Ewelme, and pink to Berrick.
Vernacular buildings
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No. 59 High Street, Chalgrove (predominantly 17th-century): timber framing and thatch.
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Fords Farm in Ewelme (17th- to 18th-century): coursed clunch rubble, brick dressings, and tiled roof.
Former coaching inns
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The former Bull Inn at Nettlebed, with its 18th-century pedimented front.
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The former Red Lion at Benson, remodelled piecemeal c.1680–1752.
Ewelme Almshouses (God's House), built c.1437–50s
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The grammar (now primary) school from the south-east.
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The almshouse cloister entrance from the south-west, with its decorative brickwork.
Church interiors
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Chalgrove: early 14th-century wall paintings in the chancel, including scenes from the life of the Virgin.
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St John's chapel in Ewelme church, showing Alice de la Pole's tomb and Ninian Comper's altarpiece of 1904.