Place:


Hampton Gay  Oxfordshire

 

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

HAMPTON GAY, a parish in Woodstock district, Oxford; on the river Cherwell, the Oxford canal, and the Oxford and Rugby railway, near Woodstock Road r. station, 2¾ miles E of Woodstock. Post town, Woodstock. Acres, 620. Real property, £1, 092. Pop., 67. Houses, 15. The manor belongs to Charles Venables, Esq.; and the manor house is a fine old Tudor edifice. There are paper mills. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £20. Patron,Venables, Esq. The church is ancient, with a low tower; and has a mural monument to Sir Vincent Barry.

Hampton Gay through time

Hampton Gay is now part of Cherwell district. Click here for graphs and data of how Cherwell has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Hampton Gay itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Hampton Gay, in Cherwell and Oxfordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/10059

Date accessed: 28th March 2024


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