St Mary's Church Cholsey Oxfordshire UK
The parish Church of St Mary in Cholsey Oxfordshire UK
The last resting place of Agatha Christie
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St mary's church
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60163 Tornado 01/12/2012
LNER A1 Class 60163 Tornado, charges up the hill into Cholsey station, pulling the Steam Dreams Cathedrals Express from Ipswich to Bristol.
Cholsey is a village and civil parish 2 miles (3 km) south of Wallingford, in South Oxfordshire. In 1974 it was transferred from Berkshire to the county of Oxfordshire, and from Wallingford Rural District to the district of South Oxfordshire.
The village green is known as The Forty and has a substantial and ancient walnut tree. Winterbrook, at the north end of Cholsey parish adjoins Wallingford, and is the site of Winterbrook Bridge, which crosses the Thames.
The village was originally founded on an island (Ceol's Isle) in marshy ground close to the Thames. There is evidence that the House of Wessex Royal family owned land in Cholsey in the 6th and 7th century. A royal nunnery, Cholsey Abbey, was founded in the village in 986 by Queen Dowager Ælfthryth on land given by her son, King Ethelred the Unready. The nunnery is thought to have been destroyed by invading Danes in 1006 when they camped in Cholsey after setting nearby Wallingford ablaze. However, Saxon masonry still survives in the Church of England parish church of St Mary. Most of this flint and stone church was built in the 12th century.
The novelist Agatha Christie's grave is in the churchyard. She died at Winterbrook House in the parish in 1976.
In the 13th century a tithe barn was built in the village. It was, at the time, the largest aisled building in the world, being 51 feet (16 m) high, 54 feet (16 m) wide and over 300 feet (91 m) long. It was demolished in 1815.
A Bronze Age site has been found beside the River Thames at Whitecross Farm in the northeast of the parish and a pre-Roman road, the Icknield Way, crosses the River Thames at Cholsey.
The station is on the original line of the Great Western Railway, which opened on 1 June 1840.[2] The original station, opened with the line and known as Wallingford Road, was several hundred yards further up the main line towards Goring & Streatley, just east of the point where the A329 road crosses the line. Some of the original station buildings can still be seen at this point. On 2 July 1866 Wallingford Road station was renamed Moulsford and the branch to Wallingford was opened, whilst the junction for this was at Moulsford station, the branch line track ran parallel to the main line for nearly 1 mile (1.6 km) before curving away.
In 1892, during quadrupling of the main line, the junction for Wallingford was resited closer to the point of divergence and a new station was built there. On 29 February 1892 the new station opened and Moulsford station closed.
The Wallingford branch closed to passenger trains in 1959 and to freight trains in 1981. Part of it is now preserved as the Cholsey and Wallingford Railway run by
Heritage Open Days at St Peter's Church
DOZENS overcame the steep steps of St Peter’s Church tower to enjoy panoramic views of Tiverton thanks to Heritage Open Days this weekend.
The 15th century tower was opened on Saturday, September 10 as part of an annual event which sees thousands of buildings across the country showcase areas which may not always be on public display.
As well as the view at the top of the tower, visitors also had a chance to see the bells, the clock mechanism and hear about bell ringing.
Les Boyce, a bell-ringer in Tiverton said: “We like to link in with Heritage Open Day because we think what we do is very much in the spirit of the day, opening up something which isn’t normally open to the public and doing it for free.
“It’s a good opportunity for us to link with our local community and also explain about what we do as bell ringers. We like people to understand how we ring, why we do it so it’s our prime opportunity in the year to make contact with people outside the church.”
Mr Boyce said that more than 60 people took part in six tours throughout the day.
“It can be quite a lot of hard work, but it’s a lot of fun and a lot of enjoyment. We like meeting our public,” Mr Boyce added.
“It’s a lot of work for us to stage, but a lot of these people are neighbours of ours and it’s good for them to come and see what we do and why we do it.
“If anyone is interested in bell ringing they are very welcome to come along on a Tuesday night and meet us on practice night at 7:15pm.”
The church will open again next September but if a group is interested in visiting then the bell ringers will be prepared to lay on special tours.
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2016 June 25 - St Mary's Old Basing & Lychpit Festival
In the North Hampshire Morris Tradition - Hook Tandoori!
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Mortimer bellringers get ready for the Striking Competition
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Chris Ham, Terry Warrington, Greg Ball, Mark Goldman and Heath Pettifer in the magnificent tower. There are six bells, two of which are mediaeval. One is dedicated to the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel. The bells are extremely heavy and have a very fine tone but they are difficult to ring [
Ringing Remembers at Eling 11 11 18
At the start of 2018 ‘Ringing Remembers’ was launched. The ‘Big Idea’ was to recruit 1400 new Ringers to replace those who perished during The Great War.
This initiative has captured the imagination of the British public, and the goal of 1400 has been smashed… the latest estimate is that there are 2000 new ringers as a direct result.
At Eling we have taken on no less than eight new recruits! However, three of these have sadly decided that Ringing is not for them, and have given up for various reasons.
After a great deal of research by some members of the band, it was discovered that there were four local ringers who perished in both World Wars that we weren’t previously aware of. Two died in The Great War, and two in The Second World War.
On Armistice Day we had four of our five new Ringers ringing together with the rest of the band. Our fifth ‘Ringing Remembers’ recruit was ringing at Lyndhurst where she has also been learning.
To cope with the number of new recruits we have invested in our own simulator earlier this year, which has been an essential tool in those early stages when learning to ring rounds - and it’s still in regular use on Saturday mornings where we have progressed through Call Changes, and now onto Plain Hunting.
The whole ‘Ringing Remembers’ recruitment drive has had a very positive impact on the whole band. Let’s hope the enthusiasm continues as we move forward together.
Anglo-Saxons | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:21 1 Ethnonym
00:06:42 2 Contemporary meanings
00:11:09 3 Early Anglo-Saxon history (410–660)
00:12:30 3.1 Migration (410–560)
00:18:54 3.2 Development of an Anglo-Saxon society (560–610)
00:22:11 3.3 Conversion to Christianity (590–660)
00:25:52 4 Middle Anglo-Saxon history (660–899)
00:27:13 4.1 Mercian supremacy (626–821)
00:29:52 4.2 Learning and monasticism (660–793)
00:32:49 4.3 West Saxon hegemony and the Anglo-Scandinavian Wars (793–878)
00:38:46 4.4 King Alfred and the rebuilding (878–899)
00:42:33 5 Late Anglo-Saxon history (899–1066)
00:43:24 5.1 Reform and formation of England (899–978)
00:47:58 5.2 Athelred and the return of the Scandinavians (978–1016)
00:51:29 5.3 Conquest England: Danes, Norwegians and Normans (1016–1066)
00:57:11 6 After the Norman Conquest
01:01:08 7 Life and society
01:01:42 7.1 Kingship and kingdoms
01:08:12 7.2 Religion and the church
01:14:10 7.3 Fighting and warfare
01:22:16 7.4 Settlements and working life
01:26:50 7.5 Women, children and slaves
01:31:09 8 Culture
01:31:18 8.1 Architecture
01:40:02 8.2 Art
01:49:53 8.3 Language
01:56:05 8.4 Kinship
02:00:02 8.5 Law
02:06:49 8.6 Literature
02:12:55 8.7 Symbolism
02:18:59 9 See also
02:19:35 10 Notes
02:19:44 11 Citations
02:20:06 12 Further reading
02:20:15 12.1 General
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The Anglo-Saxons were a cultural group who inhabited Great Britain from the 5th century. They comprise people from Germanic tribes who migrated to the island from continental Europe, their descendants, and indigenous British groups who adopted many aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture and language; the cultural foundations laid by the Anglo-Saxons are the foundation of the modern English legal system and of many aspects of English society; the modern English language owes over half its words – including the most common words of everyday speech – to the language of the Anglo-Saxons. Historically, the Anglo-Saxon period denotes the period in Britain between about 450 and 1066, after their initial settlement and up until the Norman conquest.
The early Anglo-Saxon period includes the creation of an English nation, with many of the aspects that survive today, including regional government of shires and hundreds. During this period, Christianity was established and there was a flowering of literature and language. Charters and law were also established. The term Anglo-Saxon is popularly used for the language that was spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons in England and eastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century. In scholarly use, it is more commonly called Old English.The history of the Anglo-Saxons is the history of a cultural identity. It developed from divergent groups in association with the people's adoption of Christianity, and was integral to the establishment of various kingdoms. Threatened by extended Danish invasions and military occupation of eastern England, this identity was re-established; it dominated until after the Norman Conquest. The visible Anglo-Saxon culture can be seen in the material culture of buildings, dress styles, illuminated texts and grave goods. Behind the symbolic nature of these cultural emblems, there are strong elements of tribal and lordship ties. The elite declared themselves as kings who developed burhs, and identified their roles and peoples in Biblical terms. Above all, as Helena Hamerow has observed, local and extended kin groups remained...the essential unit of production throughout the Anglo-Saxon period. The effects persist in the 21st century as, according to a study published in March 2015, the genetic makeup of British populations today shows divisions of the tribal political units of the early Anglo-Saxon peri ...