Radford, Oxfordshire
Radford is a hamlet on the River Glyme in Enstone civil parish about 6 miles (10 km) east of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.
History
[edit]In 1086, the manor of Radford, in the hundred of Shipton, Oxfordshire, was one of six manors held by Anchetil de Greye from William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford. The Domesday Book entry records Ide(m) Anschtall(us) de Grai ten(et) III hid(ae) in Radeford... ("the same Anchetil de Greye holds three hides in Radford...".[1]
Radford has a Roman Catholic chapel dedicated to the Holy Trinity, designed by A. W. N. Pugin in a Gothic Revival version of the Early English Gothic style of architecture,[2][3] built in 1841.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Ansketil (of Graye) in Domesday Book at opendomesday.org, accessed 29 October 2022
- ^ a b Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 734. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
- ^ Radford on Oxfordshire Churches website Archived 1 December 2009 at the Wayback Machine
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