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Fulwell
Hob Uid: 341214
Location : Oxfordshire Cherwell Mixbury
Grid Ref : SP6240034800
Summary : Monastic grange granted to Osney Abbey in 1205. This was built on a settled site at Osney, which was reduced over time, the church being last documented in 1254. The abbey had a mill and fishpond complex on the site. After the Dissolution, the site became manorial until the manor house was demolished in 1768. A 17th century building adjoining the manor house became a farmhouse and is still extant.The earthwork remains of the former abbey site and later fishponds surrounding the later farmhouse are visible on aerial photographs taken in November 2006 by English Heritage.
More information : Fulwell, SP 624348, was granted to Osney Abbey in 1205, who may have depopulated it by enclosure in 1517 (1). Poorly defined on the ground. (1-2) One farm remains near site and a few 19th cent cottages on the road to Mixbury. Village deserted between c 1125 and c 1350. Poor quality earthworks (1957). (3) At Fulwell, largely deserted by E 16th c, Osney Abbey had a mill and a large grange which in the 16th c became the residence of the lord of the manor. It was inhabited until the mid 18th c and pulled down before 1768, and the site,55 x 46 yards, can still be clearly seen. A 17th c building adjoining the manor house continued to be used as a farmhouse and is still extant. In 1086 Fulwell had a church, last mentioned 1254, and a mill is mentioned 1510. (4) The 17th c house stands at SP 6251 3473 and is now a private residence. It is backed on the NE by the stream to the mill which almost certainly stood 70m to the SE on a site now occupied by a defunct sheepdip. Grassed-over foundations 20m in front of the house are probably of the manor. The outline of a solitary building exists at SP 62263471, lying NE-SW, and unlikely to be of the church. No other positive indications of desertion seen. At SP 624 349 is a triangular water complex forming fishponds or a decoy, no doubt associated with the grange or manor. A broad railway embankment was constructed across the middle of it leaving a few wet ditches on either side. These survive as published on 25". (5) A rapid examination of air photography (6a) shows the earthworks around Fulwell, although whether they relate to the DMV, the grange or the house is not certain. (6) Aerial photographs taken by English Heritage in November 2006 show considerable earthwork remains of a number of features presumed to be associated with the abbey site described by the previous authotities. To the west of the present farm (Fulwell House) are the earthwork remains of two perpendicular elongaged depressions cented at approximately SP 6225 3472 which may be the fishponds mentioned above. (7)

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Source details : Lost Villages of Eng 1963 380 (M Beresford)
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Source details : DMVs of Oxon Occ papers No 17 1965 38 (KJ Allison MW Beresford, JG Hurst)
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Source details : Oxford County Museum 6" Record Sheets and cards.
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Source details : VCH Oxon 6 1959 251 ff (M Toynbee)
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Source details : F1 BHS 12-OCT-73
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Source Number : 6
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Source details : Andrew Miller/15-APR-1994/RCHME: AP Primary Recording Project
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Source Number : 6a
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Source details : NMR, SP 6234/1-3
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Source Number : 7
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Source details : NMR SP 6234/25 NMR 24487/29 29-NOV-2006
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Medieval
Display Date : Documented as extant
Monument End Date : 1254
Monument Start Date : 1086
Monument Type : Church
Evidence : Documentary Evidence

Monument Period Name : Medieval
Display Date : Extant 1205-1539
Monument End Date : 1539
Monument Start Date : 1205
Monument Type : Fishpond, Augustinian Grange, Mill
Evidence : Earthwork

Monument Period Name : Medieval
Display Date : Deserted post-1205
Monument End Date : 1205
Monument Start Date : 1205
Monument Type : Deserted Settlement
Evidence : Earthwork

Monument Period Name : Post Medieval
Display Date : Extant
Monument End Date : 1768
Monument Start Date : 1540
Monument Type : Manor House
Evidence : Earthwork

Monument Period Name : Post Medieval
Display Date : Built in C17
Monument End Date : 1699
Monument Start Date : 1600
Monument Type : Farmhouse
Evidence : Extant Building

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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SP 63 SW 5
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Relationship type : General association

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Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1973-10-12
End Date : 1973-10-12

Associated Activities :
Activity type : AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION
Start Date : 1992-01-01
End Date : 1996-12-31

Associated Activities :
Activity type : AERIAL RECONNAISSANCE
Start Date : 2006-04-01
End Date : 2007-03-31

Historic England Research Records

Fulwell