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Pyrton /ˈpɜːrtən/ is a small village and large civil parish in Oxfordshire about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the small town of Watlington and 5 miles (8 km) south of Thame. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 227.[1] The toponym is from the Old English meaning "pear-tree farm".[2]
In 1957 a late Iron Age cremation burial from the first half of the 1st century was discovered on Pyrton Heath.[3] The burial pit contained two Belgic butt beakers, a bowl and a dish.[4] The smaller of the beakers contained cremated human remains and fragments of a bronze brooch. The finder donated all the items to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.[4]
The ancient Icknield Way passes through the parish, where it is crossed by the Medieval Knightsbridge Lane that runs the length of the parish,
Pyrton was a royal estate in 774, when King Offa of Mercia gave land there to Worcester Cathedral. The Domesday Book records that after the Norman conquest of England Pyrton manor passed to Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester, whose heirs retained it until John de Scotia, 7th Earl of Chester died in 1237. It was then annexed by the Crown, and in 1360 was recorded as part of the Honour of Wallingford.
Pyrton had a Medieval manor house surrounded by a moat.
Manoirs Domesday
Name Households Pyrton 56 Watlington 54 Shirburn 39 [South] Weston 24 Ibstone 13 Wheatfield 5 Watcombe 3
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Organisation Propriétaire