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South Moreton
South Moreton is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England, about 3 miles (5 km) east of Didcot, 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Wallingford, and 7 miles (11 km) south of Abingdon. It is only separated by the Great Western Railway cutting from its twin village of North Moreton, a quarter of a mile to the north. Mortune took its name in the Domesday Book from the houses on the ridge above the moor of Hakka's Brook (now known as the Hagbourne or Hadden Marsh), and was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes. The 2011 census recorded the parish population as 420.
The Domesday Book of 1086 refers to Moretune, with no less than five manors. Its meaning is not entirely clear but three of the five manor houses are still clearly identifiable.
Saunderville is still called The Manor. It is a beautiful moated manor house with horses grazing in the railed paddocks, seen to advantage from the railway.
Huse or Bray is a recently renovated and renamed low building, with a paddock in front, at the T-junction at the east end of the village. A small piece of mediaeval brickwork is visible in the Western gable. The Hall, a walled Victorian estate, was built in its curtilage.
The only trace of Adresham is the terrace on which it once stood, opposite the village school with a 1950s house on the site. In the middle ages this manor was held by the Ponts or Points family, and known as "Ponts Homestall": "The Ponts" or "Ponts Court" on the High Street is almost at the NorthEastern corner of the demesne, and "Homestall" is by the corner of High Street and Church Lane, to the West of the manor house site.
Fulscot manor is 1⁄2 mile (800 m) west of the village, and is still a farm.
It seems likely that the fifth manor on the Moreton ridge was that later held by Sir Miles Stapleton, in North Moreton.
At the time of the South Moreton Inclosure Act 1818 (58 Geo. 3. c. 18 Pr.), the main landlord was Henry Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham, and many of the inclosures were allotted to him. Eventually a London butcher called Hedges used Rich's Sidings of the new Great Western Railway (2 miles (3 km) west by Didcot railway station) to supply much of the London meat trade. Hedges amassed a fortune and much local land, including the inclosures at Hall Farm and Fulscot Manor, both of which are still owned and farmed by his descendants.[citation needed]
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South Moreton
South Moreton is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England, about 3 miles (5 km) east of Didcot, 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Wallingford, and 7 miles (11 km) south of Abingdon. It is only separated by the Great Western Railway cutting from its twin village of North Moreton, a quarter of a mile to the north. Mortune took its name in the Domesday Book from the houses on the ridge above the moor of Hakka's Brook (now known as the Hagbourne or Hadden Marsh), and was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes. The 2011 census recorded the parish population as 420.
The Domesday Book of 1086 refers to Moretune, with no less than five manors. Its meaning is not entirely clear but three of the five manor houses are still clearly identifiable.
Saunderville is still called The Manor. It is a beautiful moated manor house with horses grazing in the railed paddocks, seen to advantage from the railway.
Huse or Bray is a recently renovated and renamed low building, with a paddock in front, at the T-junction at the east end of the village. A small piece of mediaeval brickwork is visible in the Western gable. The Hall, a walled Victorian estate, was built in its curtilage.
The only trace of Adresham is the terrace on which it once stood, opposite the village school with a 1950s house on the site. In the middle ages this manor was held by the Ponts or Points family, and known as "Ponts Homestall": "The Ponts" or "Ponts Court" on the High Street is almost at the NorthEastern corner of the demesne, and "Homestall" is by the corner of High Street and Church Lane, to the West of the manor house site.
Fulscot manor is 1⁄2 mile (800 m) west of the village, and is still a farm.
It seems likely that the fifth manor on the Moreton ridge was that later held by Sir Miles Stapleton, in North Moreton.
At the time of the South Moreton Inclosure Act 1818 (58 Geo. 3. c. 18 Pr.), the main landlord was Henry Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham, and many of the inclosures were allotted to him. Eventually a London butcher called Hedges used Rich's Sidings of the new Great Western Railway (2 miles (3 km) west by Didcot railway station) to supply much of the London meat trade. Hedges amassed a fortune and much local land, including the inclosures at Hall Farm and Fulscot Manor, both of which are still owned and farmed by his descendants.[citation needed]