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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
HEYTHROP, a parish in Chipping-Norton district, Oxford; on a headstream of the river Glyme, 3 miles E by N of Chipping-Norton r. station. It includes the hamlet of Dunthrop; and its post town is ChippingNorton. Acres, 1, 664. Real property, £941. Pop., in 1851, 190; in 1861, 122. Houses, 27. The property belongs to the Earl of Shrewsbury. Heythrop House, formerly the Earl's seat, was burnt in 1831; and the ruins of it, in picturesque aspect, still stand in the finely wooded park. The Heythrop hounds are kennelled in the parish. A Carthusian monastery was founded here, in 1222 by William Longespée, and removed to Hinton in Somerset. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £129. Patron, the Earl of Shrewsbury. The church is partly Norman; contains a good brass of 1521, on a panelled tomb; and was recently in disrepair. There is a Roman Catholic chapel, a handsome modern edifice.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Heythrop CP/AP Chipping Norton RegD/PLU Oxfordshire AncC |
| Place: | Heythrop |
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