History walk: Witney, Oxfordshire
What can be better on a sunny Sunday than to go on a walk with a couple of friends?
ESPECIALLY when it's packed with history nuggets, which for a geek like me is absolute heaven!
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Minster Lovell, Witney:
North Leigh Roman Villa:
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Roman Villa ,Oxfordshire 02/09/17
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Breaking: Harry and Meghan want to rent a Roman Villa in Oxfordshire
Breaking:Harry and Meghan want to rent a Roman Villa in Oxforshire
All are set to be performed. Harry and Meghan will be marrying on 19 May. The ceremony will be gorgeous no doubt. But there is another news to hear and to be happy.
Prince Harry and fiancee Meghan Markle might soon be neighbours of the Beckhams as they are hoping to set up their marital home in a cosy Cotswolds village.
They want to rent a villa round the corner from the celeb couple in Great Tew near Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire, it has been rumoured by locals in the fashionable area an hour from London. And that's home to David Cameron, the Beckhams and Jeremy Clarkson.
This is Roman Villa who is just round the corner from the glamorous Soho Farmhouse hotel and it is often frequented by celebrities. So, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are going to be neighbor of the one of the most popular footballers in the world.
However, the farm and listed villa would need a complete renovation.
Though the future royal couple are excited to take the decision of going to the cosy Cotswolds village, the local people thinks it would be tough for the couple. The village has a population of about 156.
One local said, “The understanding is that Harry’s seriously thinking of taking on Beaconsfield Farm. It’s a right old mess at the moment though — its full of mud. It’s a couple of barns I think. He’ll have to do it up' the Sun reported.”
Another said, 'All I know is Harry is buying in the area. I wouldn't want to say anything more than that.'
But there is a matter of happiness for to-be-princess for choosing the village. When they will move to the Cotswold, it will also give the Suits actress a chance to build up a network of British celebrity friends.
Harry and Meghan stayed at Amner Hall in Norfolk over the festive period. The Georgian country retreat was a wedding gift to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge from the Queen.
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Treasures of the Ashmolean Museum
David and Mariza’s travels take them this time to Baginton, near Coventry, where they visit the Lunt Roman Fort, which features a reconstructed timber gate, and a museum, in which you can don your own Roman armor. From there they drive to Witney to examine the ruins of a Roman villa sitting on a beautiful plain in the countryside. Finally, it’s off to Oxford and a tour of the Ashmolean Museum, which houses many fabulous ancient artifacts.
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Andy's National Trust Travel Blogs: Chedworth Villa, a Roman residence: Introductory Talk
There are 500+ places of interest in the UK under the National Trust banner and I will be attempting to visit as many as I can, reporting as I do all the important stuff relative to accessibility. In this episode I visit a Roman Villa in Chedworth, just off the A429 (Fosse Way) and not far from Fossebridge. The villa was occupied by wealthy people who produced crops to feed the army and people of Cirencester, a Roman city.
THIS IS A SPECIAL EDITION, featuring the introductory talk about the history of the villa.
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Snow in Northleigh Oxford Feb 2009
Snow in Northleigh
Britannia - Get out of my way, I'm coming through
On a quiet country station in the Oxfordshire rain, BR standard Class 7, 70000 Britannia, shouts angrily at everyone to get out of the way as it rushes through a wet Hanborough Station at 57 mph, hauling the 19/12/2012 Steam Dreams Victoria - Gloucester Cathedrals Express along the Cotswold Line. (the old platform where the line had two tracks can still be seen)
First tho we have a First Great Western 180 Adelante class, on the Paddington - Great Malvern service, where the driver has trouble stopping on his mark.
Oxford to Charlbury Section of the Cotswold Line
After departing Oxford station, the Cotswold Line shares track with the Cherwell Valley Line to Banbury. About 220 yards (200 m) north of the station, the line crosses the Sheepwash Channel which links the Castle Mill Stream and Oxford Canal with the River Thames. Immediately east of the current line is a swing bridge over the channel which used to carry the London and North Western Railway's Buckinghamshire Railway line to its terminus at Oxford Rewley Road railway station.[9] The swing bridge is a listed building. The Rewley Road station building has been dismantled and re-erected at Buckinghamshire Railway Centre. The built up area east of the railway, visible across the Oxford Canal, is Jericho, a district which originated as lodgings outside the city walls where travellers could rest if they arrived after the gates were locked. The Eagle Ironworks of William Lucy & Co. was near the first road bridge over the track on Walton Well Road.
After the bridge, the open area to the left is Port Meadow, a water meadow bordering the Thames with a Bronze Age round barrow. The former LNWR Buckinghamshire Railway branches away to the north east. Proposals exist for re-opening the whole line and are included in the Draft Milton Keynes & South Midlands Sub-Regional Strategy, but there are many planning and funding matters to be resolved.
The line passes through Wolvercote. To the west, Lower Wolvercote was a centre for paper making, mainly for the Oxford University Press from the 17th century until 1998 and is the site of Godstow abbey, a Benedictine convent founded in the 12th century. The line passes under the viaduct carrying the A34 Oxford Western Bypass and 100 yards (91 m) further under the A40 road linking London and Fishguard.
The line now turns west; here the former Buckinghamshire Junction Railway link with the Buckinghamshire Railway used to converge from the east. About 4 miles (6.4 km) after Oxford station, Yarnton station was in the short stretch between here and where the Witney Railway diverged to the south-west. So far, the line has been close to the River Thames but the river now swings away to the south through a landscape dotted with gravel pits. The line now climbs the valley of the River Evenlode repeatedly crossing and re-crossing the river. Hanborough station serves the villages of Long Hanborough, Church Hanborough, Freeland and Bladon. The Oxford Bus Museum is next to Hanborough station.
From Hanborough the line enters the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and 1 mile (1.6 km) beyond Hanborough is Combe station. Building the line through Combe was difficult with several deep cuttings, four crossings of the Evenlode, and the diversion of a length of the river. To the south, just after the third river crossing are the remains of North Leigh Roman Villa. About 1 mile (1.6 km) beyond the villa the line crosses the course of Akeman Street Roman road. The Oxfordshire Way long-distance footpath follows Akeman Street from the north east to a point about 0.6 miles (1 km) north of the railway before turning to run through Stonesfield and meet the line at Charlbury station. The next station is Finstock. Between Finstock and Charlbury the deer park to the west of the line is Cornbury Park, original venue for the Cornbury Music Festival, which has now been replaced by the Wilderness Festival. The woodlands south west of the park are the remains of Wychwood Forest named after the Hwicce, one of the Anglo-Saxon peoples of Britain. Charlbury station is the start of the redoubled track and is first stop for faster trains over the line and retains its original Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway clapperboard building. Sir Peter Parker lived nearby at Minster Lovell and was a regular user of Charlbury station while chairman of the British Railways Board (1976 to 1983). The patronage of the head of the organisation may have helped to save the line at a time when the Serpell Report was calling for more rail closures.
Snow at North Leigh
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The beauty of Cotswold UK, Sep. 2017
Beautiful Cotswold scenery from a DJI Mavick Pro drone
Yanworth Part One
St Michael's church is now some distance from the village and is surrounded by the buildings of Church Farm. The church is of late 12th century construction with a small Perpendicular tower and a late Norman north transept. Church, tythe barn and farm are beautifully maintained and form an attractive grouping visible from some distance across the wonderful local countryside. The nave has a lively depiction of Death wielding his scythe, no doubt a stern warning to wayward churchgoers. Yanworth is a short distance from Chedworth Roman villa and the spectacular countryside of the Stowell Park Estate that provides the setting for both village and villa make the area well worth a visit.
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Time Team S20 Special - 1066 The Lost Battlefield
Tony Robinson gives the history books one in the eye by discovering where the Battle of Hastings was really fought. The battle is the most famous in English history but not a single bit of archaeological evidence for it has ever been found. Have historians put the battlefield in the wrong place?
Time Team set themselves the task of uncovering the true location of England's most famous defeat.
For decades there has been dispute over the site, even though Battle Abbey is supposed to stand exactly where Harold fell. In 2012 a bestseller claimed that Caldbec Hill, a mile away, was the real site. But most historians still believe the main focus of the fighting was in the fields below the Abbey.
Time Team excavate both sites to seek evidence of either one being a battlefield.
Digging alone is inconclusive. But a cutting edge aerial technology called LIDAR to map the terrain proves that the traditional battlefield would have been too boggy for William's Norman cavalry.
So military analysts study the data to see where Harold, a skilled commander, would most likely have mounted his defence against William's invading army.
They identify the only ideal battlefield. It seems Harold's fearsome Saxon shield wall straddled a narrow strategic pass that is on today's A2100.
It leads to a surprising conclusion about where the heart of the battle was fought, and why William won and Harold lost.
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CHEDWORTH 2016
Construction of the airfield began in late 1941 and it opened in April 1942 as a satellite station to RAF Aston Down. The first users were detachments of No. 52 Operational Training Unit (OTU), flying Supermarine Spitfires and Miles Magisters. In August two flights were transferred to Chedworth. On 15 January 1943, the flights were assigned to the Flight Leaders School (FLS) within the OTU to teach tactics to fighter squadron and flight leaders. Chedworth proved to be too small and the FLS was transferred to RAF Charmy Down on 9 February.[1]
The airfield came under the control of RAF South Cerney ten days later and was used for flight training by the Airspeed Oxfords of No. 3 and No. 6 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Units and a detachment of 6(P)AFU was based there for a few months. RAF Honiley assumed control of Chedworth in October and it was used by No. 2 (Air Gunnery) Squadron of No. 63 OTU and the Air Gunnery Squadron of No. 60 OTU. They formed a combined gunnery squadron that flew De Havilland Mosquitoes, Bristol Beaufighters and Miles Masters until they returned home in January 1944. 3(P)AFU returned in a few months later to relieve the congestion at South RAF Cerney. No. 3 Tactical Exercise Unit RAF arrived 17 July 1944, becoming 55 OTU on 18 December 1944 until 29 May 1945.[2]
RAF Chedworth was also briefly home to the headquarters squadron of the Ninth Air Force of the United States Army Air Forces units during 19 June–9 July 1944 and was used by Piper L-4 Grasshoppers and Stinson L-5 Sentinels of the 125th Liaison Squadron.[1] PLEASE DONT FORGET TO SUBSCIBE
Minster Lovell Ruins & St Kenelm's Church
Minster Lovell Hall was built by William Lovell around 1440. As Minster Lovell was one of the earliest estates held by the Lovell family and one of their main residences it was at least the second building occupying this site. The Hall was a fairly typical if impressive manor house. The buildings surround three sides of a square; the fourth side towards the River Windrush was closed off by a wall. The great tower at the south-west corner seems to be a later addition to the house, as part of the adjoining west wing had to be rebuilt.
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