26-438: Boxford may refer to: Boxford, Berkshire , England Boxford railway station Boxford, Suffolk , England Boxford, Massachusetts , United States Boxford (CDP), Massachusetts Boxford, Missouri , United States Boxford Lathe , a brand of machine tool Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
52-427: A Primitive Methodist chapel , dated 1874, rebuilt from one of 1830, which has not been in use as a chapel for a number of years. Bus service 107 connects the village with Newbury. The M4 motorway has a junction within 5 miles (8.0 km) of the parish & two almost straight roads lead towards the south & north in this parish. The physical economy within the parish is mainly related to agriculture. In
78-412: A church. It is and was worth 10 pounds. Boxford House is a Grade II listed country house which is believed to date from 1825. It is built of ashlar masonry in a Gothic revival style, with mullioned and transomed windows. It has a slate roof and a parapet. The Church of England parish church of Saint Andrew consists of a chancel , nave , north aisle, north-west vestry , south porch and
104-659: A local writer and lover of music, drama and poetry. The Boxford Masques were performed by locals and lasted up until the First World War . It was revived in the year 2000 by the Watermill Theatre of Bagnor , near Newbury, following extensive research by John Vigor. Boxford has several sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) ; Easton Farm Meadow , Boxford Chalk Pit and Boxford Water Meadows . [REDACTED] Media related to Boxford, Berkshire at Wikimedia Commons Leckhampstead, Berkshire Leckhampstead
130-555: A property of Abingdon Abbey is uncertain. It is mentioned in a charter, dated to 811 CE, in which King Coenwulf of Mercia handed ten hides of land in Leckhampstead to Abingdon . This charter has however been shown to be a forgery. In 943 CE, a secular noble, named Eadric, was granted Leckhampstead by King Edmund I . It was in the hands of Abingdon Abbey by about 1030, when King Cnut gave it to another secular noble named Brihtmund for three lifetimes, after which it would return to
156-497: A west bell tower. The chancel may be Anglo-Saxon , and an Anglo-Saxon window was discovered in a wall of the church in 2011. The Jacobean pulpit dates from 1618, the font from about 1662 and the west tower from about 1692. Much of the church was rebuilt in the Victorian era and in 1841 the north aisle was added. However, the arcade between the nave and north aisle was probably by John Oldrid Scott and Sons in 1908. The building
182-610: Is Grade II* listed. The village has a number of thatched cottages and a watermill. Boxford railway station was opened by the Lambourn Valley Railway in 1898 and closed by British Railways in 1960. Boxford is known for the Boxford Masques, an outdoor midsummer celebration, held on Hoar Hill in woodland above the village, overlooking the Lambourn valley. It was originally created in the late 19th century by Charlotte Peake,
208-425: Is a boundary stone about a mile south of the middle of the village. It gets its name from a local tale which tells of a sheep rustler who was carrying a stolen sheep over his shoulder with a rope held around his neck. Feeling tired the thief sat on a stone beside the road and fell asleep. The sheep, in struggling to get free, hanged the man by the rope that had remained around his neck. The stone has given its name to
234-647: Is a village and civil parish in West Berkshire , England in the North Wessex Downs . A road and boundary stone in Leckhampstead, the Hangman's Stone and Hangman's Stone Lane, are named after a tale of a man who roped and carried a stolen sheep from a farm in Leckhampstead around his neck, but which strangled him after he stopped and slept. After a long hiatus the area returned to full village status in 1864. Its hamlet of Hill Green has six listed buildings and
260-621: Is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of West Berkshire , England. The village is on the east bank of the River Lambourn , about 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Newbury but south of the M4 motorway . The hamlet of Westbrook is on the opposite bank of the Berkshire Downs tributary. A number of Bronze Age features have been recorded near Boxford, and an urn of this period has been found. A hearth and pottery fragments from
286-567: Is sited on the triangular village green . It comprises an obelisk on a plinth with two clock faces, one facing north and one facing south, which incorporate various types of ammunition in them. The surrounding chains are from a battleship that took part in the Battle of Jutland and they are supported on spent shell cases. It was given Grade II listed status in May 2016, legally protecting it from unauthorised modification or removal. The Hangman's Stone
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#1732855303639312-407: Is towards the southern end of the village. It was designed by architect, Samuel Sanders Teulon . The interior is brick with patterns formed by the use of differently coloured brick courses and complementary colour stone embellishments. Leckhampstead has a village hall used for voluntary and social gatherings. The one public house in the village, The Stag, closed in 2017. Leckhampstead War Memorial
338-615: The Iron Age , including a La Tène pot, have been found near the north end of Boxford Common. Iron Age pottery fragments and a possible earthwork have also been found near Borough Hill. Mud Hall Cottage on Wyfield Farm is the site of a large Roman building which was excavated about 1870. Roman pottery and coins have been found at Boxford Rectory. The course of the Ermin Way Roman road that linked Corinium Dobunnorum ( Cirencester ) and Calleva Atrebatum ( Silchester ) passes through
364-459: The abbey. In the early 1040s a legal case developed between the abbey and Brihtmund's younger son Brihtwine. The matter was only resolved in the abbey's favour after 1052. A medieval deer park existed about 1228. The manor passed into secular hands around this time. The manor passed, with that at Donnington , to the Earl of Nottingham , and from him to John Mordaunt and Elizabeth his wife, who sold
390-660: The amenities of the village include a public house , church and village hall . The associated hamlet of Leckhampstead Thicket has a high proportion of its buildings that are thatched cottages and has a Primitive Methodist chapel, dated 1874. The village is in the North Wessex Downs, a few miles north of the M4 motorway . The main residential area is a linear development , the B4494 road, between Newbury (7 miles (11 km)) and Wantage (8 miles (13 km)), passes within 1,300 ft (400 m) of its eastern edge. Most of
416-448: The establishment of a uniform national welfare system, two charities were identified of specific Leckhampstead origin or benefit: In 1805 Catherine Mather by will left a sum for the vestry 's investment as a distribution. Its total fund stood at £425 5s equivalent to £30,636 in 2023) in 1923 and it producing £10 12s. 4d. per year, payable to the local education authority. In 1872 Hugh Barton Gledstanes left £1,000, on ambiguous trust as
442-555: The income was directed "for the relief of the poor brethren and for the help of the Lord's servants who carried on the work of the Gospel at Leckhampstead and neighbourhood". The estate was administered in court and its order of 1 June 1883, a few pence under £694, was transferred to the official trustees, producing yearly £17 7s for poor Plymouth Brethren in 1923." The Church of England parish church of St James, built in 1859 of brick and flint,
468-454: The land is agricultural with a few woodlands, particularly along the northern border where elevation exceeds 560 ft (170 m) above sea level. There are several winterbournes in this area. The land being on the chalk downs, most of the natural drainage is subterranean , which is borne out by the land survey by the Office for National Statistics having been unable to identify any water at
494-480: The present church, on the site of Chapel Farm. Therefore, until 1835, when it gained a civil parish council this area was administratively part of the parish of Chieveley. Ecclesiastical affairs having been divorced from the state at the local level about this time, in 1884, Leckhampstead ecclesiastical parish was recreated, twenty years after a new church for Leckhampstead was dedicated to replace its ruined chapel. The Domesday Book of 1086 records that Lecanestede
520-424: The road which passes it, Hangman's Stone Lane, which leads to the village of Boxford . The hamlet of Hill Green has six listed buildings , all in the initial category of Grade II. All are homes, the earliest dating to the early 16th century. Leckhampstead Thicket is a hamlet between Leckhampstead and Chaddleworth . There are a number of thatched or slate-roofed cottages of which two are listed buildings and
546-464: The site in 1632 to the apparent trustees for the earlier long tenants, the Spicer family. In 1743, a number of members of that family conveyed the estate to John Line. In 1798 it was the property of William Hopson Goodenough. However this was subdivided greatly by the 20th century. The 17th century manor farm house had been much altered but has 17th and 18th century parts and is a listed building . Before
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#1732855303639572-562: The south of the parish. A 140-yard (130 m) section is visible from aerial archaeology near William's Copse. The Boxford Roman mosaic , perhaps 10 metres (33 feet) square, was found in 2017. It was on the floor of a villa dating from the 4th century AD. In 958 King Eadred granted property at Boxore to his servant Wulfric, and in 968 King Edgar the Peaceful granted a similar amount of property here to his servant Elfwin. Both men ceded their holdings to Abingdon Abbey , which thus held
598-429: The surface. Sarsen stones and Bronze Age features, are in the bounds of Leckhampstead at Hill Green and a flint arrowhead of this period has been found. A small round barrow is in the south-east. Roman finds include a 2nd-century earring and Samian ware . A church, dedicated in 1050, for most of its existence, a chapel under the vicar of Chieveley has been recorded about 0.6 miles (1 km) east of
624-498: The title Boxford . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Boxford&oldid=921727078 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Boxford, Berkshire Boxford
650-530: The whole manor of Boxford before the Norman Conquest . The Domesday Book of 1086 records Boxford as Bochesorne . It says under the list of lands that belonged to Abingdon Abbey: Of the land in this manor, Reinbold holds Leckhampstead 10 hides and William 4 hides at Weston and Berner 2 hides at Boxford... There is land for 11 ploughs. There are three ploughs and 12 villeins and 24 bordars with six ploughs and six four slaves and two acres of meadow and
676-440: Was held by Abingdon Abbey . "Of the land in this manor , Reinbold holds Leckhampstead 10 hides and William 4 hides at Weston and Berner 2 hides at Boxford .... There is land for 11 ploughs . There are three plough [team]s of 12 villans and 24 bordars (smallholders) with six plough[team]s and six slaves and two acres of meadow and a church. It is and was [on Conquest] worth 10 pounds. The date that Leckhampstead became
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