Beckley, Oxfordshire

Beckley, Oxfordshire

infobox UK place
country = England
latitude= 51.7968
longitude= -1.1826
official_name= Beckley
population=
civil_parish= Beckley and Stowood
shire_district= South Oxfordshire
shire_county = Oxfordshire
region= South East England
constituency_westminster= Henley
post_town= OXFORD|postcode_district = OX3
postcode_area= OX |dial_code=
os_grid_reference= SP564112

Beckley is a small village and in the civil parish of Beckley and Stowood, about 10 miles east from the centre of Oxford. It consists of a village hall, farm shop and gastropub, the Abingdon Arms. It is also famous for its towering TV mast.Nearby the remains of a Roman Villa have been found, with the remains currently in the Ashmolean Museum.

The manor of Beckley was once held by the Izard family, who purchased the rectory in 1568. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=ifhx0ZD7yVsC&pg=PA303&lpg=PA303&dq=izode+oxfordshire&source=web&ots=PqnVj15d99&sig=JW544EADHZs1KXpjJVeNlv4uvuw&hl=en The Visitations of the county of Oxford taken in the years 1566, Richard Lee, William Harvey, 1871] ] Memorials in Beckley church to the family include one dedicated to John Izard, 'Spanish merchant,' who died in 1694. [ [http://oxford-consultants.tripod.com/a_history_of_horton_cum_studley.htm History of Beckley] ] Dorothy Izard of this family married the Rev. Nicholas Levet (Levett), minister of Westbourne, West Sussex and fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=wzkNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA218&lpg=PA218&dq=%22william+levet%22+spencer&source=web&ots=Dk6V1X3Ewv&sig=XRIUEPJLHaNO4AeUhrGZNITw6QE&hl=en Oxford Historical Society, 1894] ] The Izard family eventually sold the rectory in which they had resided to the Duke of Bedford [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=4HUHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA218&lpg=PA218&dq=oxfordshire+beckley+izard&source=web&ots=nUqHEAj2Tg&sig=jWPHGCrUAyPQY6rY55A6QMfnuIs&hl=en A guide to the architectural antiquities in the neighbourhood of Oxford, John Henry Parker, 1846] ] The Izard family also held the nearby manor of Charlton-on-Otmoor. [ [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63727 Charlton-on-Otmoor, A History of the County of Oxford, Victoria County History, 1959, British History Online] ] [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=4HUHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14&dq=oxfordshire+beckley+shillingford&source=web&ots=nUqHEAk2Un&sig=RyiIWvSnLVyoeXTL_P0ARD2SHww&hl=en#PPA14,M1 A guide to the architectural antiquities in the neighbourhood of Oxford, John Henry Parker, 1846] ]

References

ee also

*Beckley Park.


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