•  Pyrton, Oxfordshire

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

PIRTON, a village, a parish, and a hundred, in Oxford. The village stands near the Chiltern hills, 1 mile N of Watlington, and 7 N E of Watlingford r. station; and was anciently called Peritone. The parish contains also the hamlets of Clare, Assendon, Golder, Portways, and Standhill; and is in Henley district. Post-town, Tetworth. Acres, 5, 140. Real property, £8, 195. Pop., 705. Houses, 139. The manor was held, at Domesday, by Hugh Lupus; and belongs now to Lord Camoys, the Earl of Macclesfield, and H. ...

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Hamersley, Esq. Stonor Park is the seat of Lord Camoys; and the Manor House is the seat of H. Hamersley, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £258.* Patron, Christchurch, Oxford. The church was rebuilt in 1856, and is in the early English style. There are a dissentingchapel, a Roman Catholic chapel, and charities £16. John Hampden was married in the old church to Miss Symeon, whose father then occupied the Manor House; and Rose, the author of an " Essay on Universal Language, " was a native. The hundred contains seven parishes, and part of another. Acres, 13, 973. Pop., 3, 615. Houses, 763.

Pyrton through time

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