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Bletchingdon (also known as Bletchington) is a village and civil parish north of Kidlington and southwest of Bicester in Oxfordshire, England. [1]

73 relations: Arable land, Archbishops' Council, Arthur Annesley, 5th Earl of Anglesey, Bicester, Birmingham, Bletchingdon Park, Bletchington railway station, Brass band, British Rail, Cavalier, Chancel, Change ringing, Charles Buckeridge, Cheltenham, Cherwell District, Cherwell Valley line, Chesterton, Oxfordshire, Church of England, Church of England parish church, Civil parish, Clare College, Cambridge, Cowley, Oxfordshire, Dissolution of the Monasteries, Domesday Book, Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers, Edward II of England, Elizabeth de Clare, Enclosure, English country house, Enslow, Godstow, Hampton Gay, Harrogate, Harvard University Press, Henley (UK Parliament constituency), Hide (unit), Inclosure Acts, Kidlington, Kirtlington, Knights Hospitaller, Knights Templar, Lord of the manor, Manorialism, Middleton Stoney, Mixbury, Neighbourhood Statistics, Norman architecture, Northamptonshire, Office for National Statistics, Open-field system, ..., Osney Abbey, Oxford and Rugby Railway, Oxford Canal, Oxfordshire, Palladian architecture, Penguin Books, Preceptor, Pub, Robert D'Oyly, Roger d'Amory, Roundhead, Saint Giles, Thames Travel, The Crown, United Kingdom census, 2011, Victoria County History, Victorian restoration, Virgate, Voluntary controlled school, Wendlebury, Weston-on-the-Green, Whitechapel Bell Foundry, Wiltshire. Expand index (23 more) »

Arable land

Arable land (from Latin arabilis, "able to be plowed") is, according to one definition, land capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops.

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Archbishops' Council

The Archbishops' Council is a part of the governance structures of the Church of England.

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Arthur Annesley, 5th Earl of Anglesey

Arthur Annesley, 5th Earl of Anglesey PC, PC (Ire) (– 31 March 1737) was an Anglo-Irish politician.

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Bicester

Bicester is a town and civil parish in the Cherwell district of northeastern Oxfordshire in England.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Bletchingdon Park

Bletchington Park is a Grade II* listed Palladian country house in Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire.

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Bletchington railway station

Bletchington railway station is a disused station in Oxfordshire at Enslow, England, a hamlet west of the village of Bletchingdon.

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Brass band

A brass band is a musical ensemble generally consisting entirely of brass instruments, most often with a percussion section.

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British Rail

British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the state-owned company that operated most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997.

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Cavalier

The term Cavalier was first used by Roundheads as a term of abuse for the wealthier Royalist supporters of King Charles I and his son Charles II of England during the English Civil War, the Interregnum, and the Restoration (1642 – c. 1679).

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Chancel

In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar, including the choir and the sanctuary (sometimes called the presbytery), at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building.

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Change ringing

Change ringing is the art of ringing a set of tuned bells in a controlled manner to produce variations in their striking sequences.

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Charles Buckeridge

Charles Buckeridge (circa 1832–73) was a British Gothic Revival architect who trained as a pupil of Sir George Gilbert Scott.

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Cheltenham

Cheltenham, also known as Cheltenham Spa, is a regency spa town and borough which is located on the edge of the Cotswolds, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Gloucestershire, England.

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Cherwell District

Cherwell is a local government district in northern Oxfordshire, England.

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Cherwell Valley line

The Cherwell Valley line is the railway line between and via.

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Chesterton, Oxfordshire

Chesterton is a village and civil parish on Gagle Brook, a tributary of the Langford Brook in north Oxfordshire.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the state church of England.

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Church of England parish church

A parish church in the Church of England is the church which acts as the religious centre for the people within the smallest and most basic Church of England administrative region, the parish – since the 19th century called the ecclesiastical parish (outside meetings of the church) to avoid confusion with the civil parish which many towns and villages have.

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Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority.

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Clare College, Cambridge

Clare College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.

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Cowley, Oxfordshire

Cowley in Oxford, England, is a residential and industrial area that forms a small conurbation within greater Oxford.

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Dissolution of the Monasteries

The Dissolution of the Monasteries, sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, priories, convents and friaries in England and Wales and Ireland, appropriated their income, disposed of their assets, and provided for their former personnel and functions.

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Domesday Book

Domesday Book (or; Latin: Liber de Wintonia "Book of Winchester") is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror.

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Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers

Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers (known to ringers as "Dove's Guide" or simply "Dove") is the standard reference to the rings of bells hung for English-style full-circle bell ringing.

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Edward II of England

Edward II (25 April 1284 – 21 September 1327), also called Edward of Carnarvon, was King of England from 1307 until he was deposed in January 1327.

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Elizabeth de Clare

Elizabeth de Clare, 11th Lady of Clare (16 September 1295 – 4 November 1360) was the heiress to the lordships of Clare, Suffolk, in England and Usk in Wales.

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Enclosure

Enclosure (sometimes inclosure) was the legal process in England of consolidating (enclosing) small landholdings into larger farms.

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English country house

An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside.

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Enslow

Enslow is a hamlet on the banks of both the River Cherwell and the Oxford Canal in Bletchingdon civil parish, Oxfordshire.

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Godstow

Godstow is about northwest of the centre of Oxford.

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Hampton Gay

Hampton Gay is a village in the Cherwell Valley about north of Kidlington, Oxfordshire.

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Harrogate

Harrogate is a spa town in North Yorkshire, England.

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Harvard University Press

Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.

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Henley (UK Parliament constituency)

Henley is a constituency in Oxfordshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2008 by John Howell, a member of the Conservative party.

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Hide (unit)

The hide was an English unit of land measurement originally intended to represent the amount of land sufficient to support a household.

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Inclosure Acts

The Inclosure Acts were a series of Acts of Parliament that empowered enclosure of open fields and common land in England and Wales, creating legal property rights to land that was previously held in common.

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Kidlington

Kidlington is a large village and civil parish between the River Cherwell and the Oxford Canal, north of Oxford and southwest of Bicester.

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Kirtlington

Kirtlington is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire about west of Bicester.

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Knights Hospitaller

The Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (Ordo Fratrum Hospitalis Sancti Ioannis Hierosolymitani), also known as the Order of Saint John, Order of Hospitallers, Knights Hospitaller, Knights Hospitalier or Hospitallers, was a medieval Catholic military order.

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Knights Templar

The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon (Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Salomonici), also known as the Order of Solomon's Temple, the Knights Templar or simply as Templars, were a Catholic military order recognised in 1139 by papal bull Omne Datum Optimum of the Holy See.

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Lord of the manor

In British or Irish history, the lordship of a manor is a lordship emanating from the feudal system of manorialism.

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Manorialism

Manorialism was an essential element of feudal society.

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Middleton Stoney

Middleton Stoney is a village and civil parish about west of Bicester, Oxfordshire.

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Mixbury

Mixbury is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about southeast of Brackley in Northamptonshire.

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Neighbourhood Statistics

The Neighbourhood Statistics Service (NeSS) was established in 2001 by the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit (NRU) - then part of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM), now Communities and Local Government (CLG) - to provide good quality small area data to support the Government's Neighbourhood Renewal agenda.

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Norman architecture

The term Norman architecture is used to categorise styles of Romanesque architecture developed by the Normans in the various lands under their dominion or influence in the 11th and 12th centuries.

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Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire (abbreviated Northants.), archaically known as the County of Northampton, is a county in the East Midlands of England.

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Office for National Statistics

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority, a non-ministerial department which reports directly to the UK Parliament.

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Open-field system

The open-field system was the prevalent agricultural system in much of Europe during the Middle Ages and lasted into the 20th century in parts of western Europe, Russia, Iran and Turkey.

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Osney Abbey

Osney Abbey or Oseney Abbey, later Osney Cathedral, was a house of Augustinian canons at Osney in Oxfordshire.

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Oxford and Rugby Railway

The Oxford and Rugby Railway was a railway between and that was projected to reach but failed to do so.

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Oxford Canal

The Oxford Canal is a narrow canal in central England linking Oxford with Bedworth (between Coventry and Nuneaton on the Coventry Canal) via Banbury and Rugby.

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Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from Oxonium, the Latin name for Oxford) is a county in South East England.

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Palladian architecture

Palladian architecture is a European style of architecture derived from and inspired by the designs of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580).

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a British publishing house.

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Preceptor

A preceptor is a teacher responsible to uphold a certain law or tradition, a precept.

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Pub

A pub, or public house, is an establishment licensed to sell alcoholic drinks, which traditionally include beer (such as ale) and cider.

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Robert D'Oyly

Robert D'Oyly (also spelt Robert D'Oyley de Liseaux, Robert Doyley, Robert de Oiley, Robert d'Oilly, Robert D'Oyley and Roberti De Oilgi) was a Norman nobleman who accompanied William the Conqueror on the Norman Conquest, his invasion of England.

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Roger d'Amory

Roger Damory, Lord d'Amory, Baron d'Amory in Ireland, (d. bef. 14 March 1321/1322) was a nobleman and Constable of Corfe Castle.

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Roundhead

Roundheads were supporters of the Parliament of England during the English Civil War.

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Saint Giles

Saint Giles (Aegidius; Gilles; 650 AD – 710), also known as Giles the Hermit, was a Greek, Christian, hermit saint from Athens, whose legend is centered in Provence and Septimania.

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Thames Travel

Thames Travel is a bus operator serving the southern part of the English county of Oxfordshire.

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The Crown

The Crown is the state in all its aspects within the jurisprudence of the Commonwealth realms and their sub-divisions (such as Crown dependencies, provinces, or states).

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United Kingdom census, 2011

A census of the population of the United Kingdom is taken every ten years.

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Victoria County History

The Victoria History of the Counties of England, commonly known as the Victoria County History or the VCH, is an English history project which began in 1899 and was dedicated to Queen Victoria with the aim of creating an encyclopaedic history of each of the historic counties of England.

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Victorian restoration

The Victorian restoration was the widespread and extensive refurbishment and rebuilding of Church of England churches and cathedrals that took place in England and Wales during the 19th-century reign of Queen Victoria.

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Virgate

The virgate, yardland, or yard of land (virgāta) was an English unit of land.

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Voluntary controlled school

A voluntary controlled school (VC school) is a state-funded school in England and Wales in which a foundation or trust (usually a Christian denomination) has some formal influence in the running of the school.

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Wendlebury

Wendlebury is a village and civil parish about southwest of Bicester and about from Junction 9 of the M40.

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Weston-on-the-Green

Weston-on-the-Green is a village and civil parish in the Cherwell district of Oxfordshire, England, about southwest of Bicester.

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Whitechapel Bell Foundry

The Whitechapel Bell Foundry was a business in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, and, at the time of the closure of the Whitechapel premises, was the oldest manufacturing company in Great Britain.

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Wiltshire

Wiltshire is a county in South West England with an area of.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchingdon

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