Cuddesdon
| Cuddesdon | |||
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 43 ′ N , 1 ° 8 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 502 (as of 2009) | ||
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| Post town | OXFORD | ||
| ZIP code section | OX44 | ||
| prefix | 01865 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | West Midlands | ||
| Ceremonial county | South Oxfordshire | ||
| Unitary authority | Oxfordshire | ||
| British Parliament | Henley | ||
Cuddesdon is a village and, together with Denton, a Civil Parish in the district of South Oxfordshire about 5.5 mi (9 km) east-southeast of Oxford . The village is home to the Church of England's largest clergy training center : Ripon College Cuddesdon .
The center of Cuddesdon has about 430 inhabitants and another 70 are distributed between the hamlets of Denton and Chippinghurst ( 2001 census ).
history
The name Cuddesdon probably goes back to the Old English Cuddes Dune with the meaning "Cuddes hill" or the "hill of Cuthwine". In times when Oxfordshire was organized in hundreds, Cuddesdon was part of the “hundred of Bullingdon”.
Cuddesdon was originally an Anglo-Saxon street village , built along what is now High Street , but since the 19th century the center of gravity of the settlement has shifted due to construction work by the Church of England in the north of the village and settlements in the 20th century (Bishop's Wood and Parkside) is around The Green today .
Since the 1950s, many workshops and shops have disappeared from Cuddesdon. Today the village is a settlement for commuters and the businesses reflect this development: The “Petrol Station”, the shop, the school, the mill, the second public house and various agricultural buildings have now been converted into residential buildings. the village has become a satellite town as a whole .
geography
The parish is bounded by the River Thame to the east and southeast, and its tributary Cuddesdon Brook in the north. The road from Wheatley to Garsington forms the western boundary and to the southwest the boundaries run through the fields. The village is on a hill overlooking south Oxfordshire, as well as northern Berkshire , the Aylesbury Vale in central Buckinghamshire and part of western Bedfordshire . In the distance you can see the Chiltern Hills and the North Wessex Downs , AONB from Ivinghoe Beacon in the east to Didcot Power Station in the west.
Culture and church
There is a Parish Council community bulletin that publicizes events such as annual Guy Fawkes Night fireworks , summer parties , and others. The All Saints 's Church, the Bar Bat and Ball Inn , the Village Hall , the Ripon College Cuddesdon and agricultural holdings constitute the economy of the village.
Parish Church
Abingdon Abbey founded the All Saints Parish Church in Cuddesdon in 1180 . Today the parish belongs to the Aston and Cuddesdon Deanery of the Diocese of Oxford .
Bishop's Palace
Cuddesdon Palace was built in 1634 for John Bancroft , who was Bishop of Oxford from 1632 to 1641 . In 1644, during the English Civil War , royalist troops looted the palace to prevent the parliamentarians who besieged Oxford from using it. In 1676 John Fell became Bishop of Oxford. In 1679 he commissioned the building of the palace. In 1846, Bishop Samuel Wilberforce had the Saints Peter and Paul chapel added . It was built by Benjamin Ferrey in the neo-Gothic style. The following bishops of Oxford resided in the palace until Thomas Banks Strong retired in 1937. During the Second World War , Queen Anne's Bounty (a foundation for clerics) was evacuated from London and housed in the palace. It was then used by The Society of the Salutation of Mary the Virgin until 1949. The palace was privately owned in the 1960s but burned down at the end of the decade. Only the Bishop's Chapel survived the fire and is still standing today.
Theological training center (college)
In 1854, Wilberforce founded Cuddesdon College on property opposite the palace. Anglican clergy were trained there. In 1975 the college was merged with Ripon Hall to form and now forms Ripon College Cuddesdon . Due to the strong ecclesiastical presence, the village is nicknamed “Holy Hill”.
Personalities
- Robert Runcie (1921-2000), former Archbishop of Canterbury and former Vicar of Cuddesdon and College Principal, was appointed Baron Runcie of Cuddesdon .
- Sir Edward Loughlin O'Malley (1842–1932), formerly Attorney General of Hong Kong and Chief Justice of Singapore (Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements) and Chief Judge of the British Supreme Consular Court at Constantinople , retired in Denton in 1892. He died there and was buried in Cuddesdon in 1932.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sherwood, Pevsner: Oxfordshire. 1974, p. 562.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Lobel: A History of the County of Oxford. 1957, pp. 96-116.
- ↑ Sherwood, Pevsner: Oxfordshire. 1974, p. 563.
- ↑ Denton House on britishlistedbuildings.co.uk.
- ^ Parishes: Cuddesdon. In: A History of the County of Oxford. Volume 5 ( british-history.ac.uk ) and Murrisk Cemetery, Murrisk, Co. Mayo on bernieworld.net.
literature
- Mark Chapman: God's holy hill. A history of Christianity in Cuddesdon . Wychwood Press, Charlbury 2004, ISBN 1-902279-20-4 .
- Mary D. Lobel (Ed.): A History of the County of Oxford (= Victoria County History . Volume 5 : Bullingdon Hundred ). 1957, p. 96-116 .
- Jennifer Sherwood, Nikolaus Pevsner: Oxfordshire (= The Buildings of England ). Penguin Books, Harmondsworth 1974, ISBN 0-14-071045-0 , pp. 562-565 .
