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Ascott-under-Wychwood lies in the Evenlode valley, a small grey stone
village with a Norman church. Along with the two other villages of
Milton-under-Wychwood and Shipton-under-Wychwood, the Wychwoods take
their name from the royal forest of Wychwood, which stretched for
nineteen kilometres between Bladon and Burdon. Some parts of this forest still exist.
Ascot, Ascott
'eastern cottage(s)', Old English east + cot: Ascot Berkshire. Estcota 1177.
Ascott under Wychwood Oxfordshire. Estcot 1220.
Affix means 'near the forest of Wychwood'
(an Old English name, Huiccewudu 840, meaning 'wood of a tribe called the Hwicce').
A Dictionary of English Place-Names, Oxford University Press
The village claims earthworks of two castles. One in the South West part
of the village, known as Ascott Earl, where turf mounds mark the site
of a motte-and-bailey castle. The Manor House stands within the bailey
of the second castle, built @1129-1150. Excavations in 1946 showed that
it contained a stone tower 35ft square.
The Chaundy family name can be traced in Ascott from 1548 to 1965.
Holy Trinity is a small rustic church of about 1200 with simple Norman
details. The church was restored in 1857-9 by Street who added a
vestry. The church has a crudely rustic priest's door, and to the north
a good avenue of limes gives stately grace to the scene. In the
churchyard, the headstones lean in amusing disarray, scarcely a single
one vertical. Surrounding the churchyard and forming a square are
stone houses, some terraced.
Manor House, 0.25 miles NE of the church. Gabled, irregular, of two
storeys, and roughly E shaped. It is mainly C16 and C17, but against
the E wall are C13 angle buttresses at one corner and clasping
buttresses at the other. In the gable the outline of the jambs and
part of the pointed arch of a blocked window of the same date. In the
later part of the house some C17 windows with wooden mullions.
To the west a C17 barn with a columbarium in the gable, and beside
it a brick and half timber granary on staddle stones.
Details of Ascott-under-Wychwood from 'The New Oxfordshire Village Book'
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The lives of the Ascott Chaundys
Fulke (-1620)
- Elizabeth
- Susan
- Anne
- Isabell
- Rebecca
- Fulke (1618-1694)
- Maria (1641-1683)
- Isabell (1642-1722)
- Elizabeth (1646-)
- Anne (1652-)
- John (1654-1730)
- Jane (1683-)
- John (1685-1749)
- John (1725-1775)
- Mary (1742-)
- Jane (1744-1813)
- Ann (1746-)
- Sarah (1747-)
- Hannah (1751-)
- Bartholomew (1727-1777) moved to Devon
- Ann (1731-)
- Thomas (1687-1761)
- Jane (1716-)
- Mary (1718-)
- John (1722-1788)
- Thomas (1756-1828)
- Ann (-1807)
- George (1779-1834)
- Sarah (1781-)
- Mary (1784-)
- Isabell (1786-1872)
- Martha (1788-1789)
- John (1758-1824)
- George (1760-1842)
- Susanna (1781-1799)
- Martin (1784-1846) moved to Milton-under-Wychwood
- Richard (1786-1864) moved to London
- Ann (1818-1818)
- Richard (1820-1871)
- John (1822-1886)
- Thomas (1824-1825)
- Mary (1826-)
- Sarah (1830-1905)
- Charlotte (1789-1844)
- George (1791-1864) moved to London
- Martha Charlotte (1820-1891)
- George Chadwin (1821-1822)
- George Chadwin (1825-1825)
- Elizabeth Rebecca (1827-)
- Mary Ann (1828-)
- Thomas Ellis (1793-1870)
- Ann Elizabeth (1862-1946)
- Osbert Thomas (1864-1950)
- Philip (1795-1865) moved to London
- Amelia (1798-1851)
- Sophia (1800-1878)
- Livia (1803-1891)
- Peter (1805-1855)
- Elizabeth (1762-1808)
- William (1764-1836) moved to Oxford
- John William (1789-1870)
- Elizabeth (1790-1790)
- Amelia (1793-1795)
- Richard (1795-)
- Rebecca Eliza (1822-1825)
- William (1824-1891) moved to Stratford-upon-Avon
- Eliza (1825-1828)
- Sarah (1796-1798)
- Susannah Amelia (1798-1876) moved to America
- Sophia (1800-)
- Harriet (1801-1801)
- William (1802-) moved to America
- William
- Charles (1829-1862)
- Rebeccah Hannah (1830-1895)
- Francis N (1835-1901)
- This Chaundy line continues today in America especially Pennsylvania and Michigan.
- Elizabeth D (1837-1914)
- Jane Sophia
- Mary (1804-)
- Thomas (1811-1892) moved to America
- Richard (1768-1818) moved to Oxford
- John (1797-1852)
- Joseph (1800-1867)
- Richard (1827-1838)
- Phebe (1828-)
- Ann (1831-)
- Richard (1802-1856)
- George (1804-1866)
- William (1806-1863) sent to Australia
- William Henry (1830-1882)
- This Chaundy line continues today in Melbourne, Australia.
- Elizabeth (1832-1904)
- Ellen Selina (1833-1836)
- Frances (1835-1842)
- George (1837-1924)
- Hepzibah Ann (1839-1920)
- Leah (1841-1923)
- Emily Rachel (1843-1928)
- Alice Julia (1845-1920)
- Richard (1847-1890)
- This Chaundy line continues today in Melbourne, Australia.
- Ann (1807-)
- Charles (1809-1850)
- Charles (1830-1848)
- Richard (1832-1888)
- This Chaundy line continues today in Southern England.
- Joseph (1835-1899)
- Henry (1837-)
- Arthur (1839-1839)
- James (1812-1887)
- Ann Elizabeth (1835-)
- Susanna (1837-1849)
- Eleanor/Ellen (1840-)
- Henry (1842-1927)
- This Chaundy line continues today in Oxfordshire, Surrey and Wales.
- Louisa (1845-1849)
- James Elias (1848-1926)
- This Chaundy line continues today in Australia.
- Charles (1852-1915)
- Clara (1856-)
- Thomas (1812-1813)
- Susannah (1815-1890)
- Elizabeth (1725-)
- Ann (1732-)
- Sarah (1734-)
- Elizabeth (1689-)
- George (1692-1739)
- Mary (1694-)
- Isabell (1696-1722)
- Sarah (1697-)
- Thomas
- Sarah
- Jane (1660-)
- Rebeccah
More details about Ascott-under-Wychwood
Chaundy inscriptions on Tombstones at Ascott
Chaundy baptisms, marriages and burials at Ascott
Chaundy census details from Ascott
Long House Farm, Ascott-under-Wychwood
Ascott: Topographical Dictionary of England, Lewis, 1831
Ascott-under-Wychwood 1891 census
More information on the Wychwoods
Ascott-under-Wychwood Community Web Site
The Wychwood Project
The Domesday Book - Ascott References
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