Forest Hill

Other current and historical names

Fostel
Shotover Forest

Built-Up Area: Forest Hill
Parish/Community: Forest Hill with Shotover
District/Borough: South Oxfordshire
County: Oxfordshire
Region: South East

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 51°46'0"N 1°9'11"W
Eastings/Northings: 458527, 207895
OS Grid: SP585078
Mapcode Local: GBR 8Z2.37N
Mapcode Global: VHCXP.YVNJ

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

Forest Hill in historic gazetteers

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

Forest Hill (or Shotover Forest), par., in co. and 5 m. NE. of Oxford, 1946 ac., pop. 384; P.O.

Forest Hill in the Domesday Book

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

- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Bishop Odo of Bayeux
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Roger of Ivry (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 3 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £2 in 1066; £1 in 1086
- Households: 3 villagers; 2 smallholders; 1 slave
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough; 1 men's plough (3 plough lands)
- Woodland: 2 furlongs

British Place Names

Forest Hill, Oxfordshire

Forest Hill is a village in Oxfordshire

Forest Hill in historic gazetteers

Forest Hill in the Domesday Book