Ashbury

Other current and historical names

Essebury
Eissesberie
Kingstone Winslow

Built-Up Area: Ashbury
Parish/Community: Ashbury
District/Borough: Vale of White Horse
County: Oxfordshire
Region: South East

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 51°33'49"N 1°37'11"W
Eastings/Northings: 426440, 185053
OS Grid: SU264850
Mapcode Local: GBR 5WS.Z4M
Mapcode Global: VHC0Y.VYYN

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Ashbury within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Ashbury in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Ashbury.-- par. and vil., NW. Berks, 5 miles NW. of Lambourn, 5609 ac., pop. 684; P.O.

Ashbury in the Domesday Book

A village in Hildslow hundred, in the county of Berkshire.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Abbey of Glastonbury St Mary
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Abbey of Glastonbury
- Lords of the Manor in 1086: Abbey of Glastonbury; Robert d'Oilly (subinfeudated); Alwin (subinfeudated); Edward (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 40 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £35 in 1066; £20 in 1070; £32 in 1086
- Households: 15 villagers; 33 smallholders; 9 slaves
- Plough Teams: 8 lord's ploughs; 6 men's ploughs (20 plough lands)
- Meadow: 200 acres
- Churches: 1
- Mills: 2, value £1 2/4¾

British Place Names

Ashbury, Oxfordshire

Ashbury is a village in Oxfordshire

Ashbury in historic gazetteers

Ashbury in the Domesday Book