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Blewbury is a village and civil parish at the foot of the Berkshire Downs section of the North Wessex Downs about 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Didcot, 14 miles (23 km) south of Oxford and 50 miles (80 km) west of London. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 1,581.[1] A number of springs rise at the foot of the escarpment of the downs. Some springs feed a small lake called the Watercress Beds, where watercress used to be grown. From here and elsewhere tributaries feed the Mill Brook which carries the water to the river Thames at Wallingford.
The southern part of the parish is chalk downland and includes a number of prehistoric sites. The Ridgeway is an ancient trackway that passes just south of the parish. Half of the 360 feet (110 m) high Blewburton Hill is in the parish. It is topped by an Iron Age hill fort that may have been occupied from the 4th century BC to the 1st century BC.[2] The parish's highest point is the 520 feet (160 m) Churn Hill, 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) southwest of the village. On its northwestern side are two round barrows, the larger of which is Churn Knob.[3] There are other round barrows further south, towards the boundaries with Compton and East Ilsley parishes.[3] During the Roman occupation, a shrine or temple was built near the Ridgeway on Lowbury Hill.[4] A 7th century Anglo-Saxon burial mound, containing a sword and hanging bowl (which were relocated to The Oxfordshire Museum), can be found near to the Roman shrine or temple.[5]
n 634, St Birinus was sent from Rome to convert the Midlands. Tradition has it that he preached to the local tribe from Churn Knob.[15] He converted the tribe and was allowed to found Dorchester Abbey in Dorchester-on-Thames. An annual pilgrimage now walks from Churn Knob to Dorchester in celebration.[16] Blewbury is called "this venerable village" in its Saxon charter.[17] There is more information in the Domesday Book of 1086. At that time the population was probably about 400, and there were four water mills.[18] Two mills remain.[citation needed]
Manors Domesday
Name Households Blewbury 89 [East and West] Hagbourne 69 Harwell 56 [North and South] Moreton 46 Upton 30 Aston [Tirrold] 29 Aston [Upthorpe] 25 Willington 21 Fulscot 9
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