Place:


Bagley Wood  Berkshire

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Bagley Wood like this:

BAGLEY-WOOD, an extra-parochial tract in Abing don district, Berks; 3 miles S of Oxford. Acres, 390. Pop., 8. Houses, 3. A spot here, on Chilswell farm, was the site of the original Abingdon abbey; and an other spot, on the top of a hill, commands a splendid view of Oxford.

Bagley Wood through time

Bagley Wood is now part of Vale of White Horse district. Click here for graphs and data of how Vale of White Horse has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Bagley Wood itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Bagley Wood, in Vale of White Horse and Berkshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/22853

Date accessed: 19th March 2024


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