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Bixa

Built-Up Area: Bix
Parish/Community: Bix and Assendon
District/Borough: South Oxfordshire
County: Oxfordshire
Region: South East

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 51°33'38"N 0°57'4"W
Eastings/Northings: 472808, 185168
OS Grid: SU728851
Mapcode Local: GBR C4J.0CJ
Mapcode Global: VHDWF.G1JD

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

Bix in historic gazetteers

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

Bix, par., SE. Oxfordshire, 2¾ miles NW. of Henley-on-Thames, 3078 ac., pop. 427; P.O.

Bix in the Domesday Book

A village in Binfield hundred, in the county of Oxfordshire.

Two manors recorded in Domesday.

1st Manor
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Walter Giffard
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Hugh of Bolbec (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 2 ¹⁄₂ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £3 in 1066; £3 in 1086
- Households: 6 villagers
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 2 men's ploughs (7 plough lands)
- Meadow: 3 acres
- Woodland: 12 acres
2nd Manor
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Hervey the commissioner
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Hervey the commissioner
- Taxable Value: 2 ¹⁄₂ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £3 in 1066; £3 in 1086
- Households: 8 villagers; 2 smallholders; 1 slave
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough; 5 men's ploughs (7 plough lands)
- Meadow: 3 acres
- Woodland: 12 acres

British Place Names

Bix, Oxfordshire

Bix is a village in Oxfordshire

Bix in historic gazetteers

Bix in the Domesday Book