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Uffington is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Faringdon and 6 miles (10 km) west of Wantage. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 783.[1] Lying within the historic county boundaries of Berkshire, in 1974 it was transferred for local government purposes to Oxfordshire under the Local Government Act 1972. Uffington is most commonly known for the Uffington White Horse hill figure on the Berkshire Downs in the south of the parish.
The White Horse is one of the United Kingdom's best-known archaeological sites. It is a 374 feet (114 m) long Bronze Age hill figure, cut out of the turf on White Horse Hill on the Berkshire Downs just south of the village of Woolstone. It is generally thought[by whom?] to have been a Celtic religious totem, associated with the people who were later called the Atrebates. The white horse may have been associated with the adjoining Dragon Hill, a small natural hillock with an artificially flattened top.
Above these stands Uffington Castle, an Iron Age hill fort (overlying a Bronze Age predecessor) where some of this tribe may have lived. There are also a number of associated burial mounds and there are others further south. Just south of the hill fort the Ridgeway passes through the parish. Ram's Hill seems to have been a Bronze Age cattle ranching and trading centre. Contrary to popular Victorian theories, the Battle of Ashdown in 871 was not fought at Uffington and the White Horse was not created as a monument by King Alfred's men.
The earliest known records of place names (toponym) are as Uffentun and Offentona in Anglo-Saxon charters from 931 now reproduced in the Cartularium Saxonicum.[3] Another 10th- and 11th-century spelling was Offentune.[2] The Domesday Book of 1086 records it as Offentone.[3] Later spellings include Offinton in the 13th century, Uffinton in the 14th century and Offington in the 16th century.[2] The name is derived from Old English and means "the tūn of Uffa's people".[3] The word tūn originally meant "fence", but had come to mean an enclosure or homestead.[4]

Manoirs Domesday

Name Households Uffington 60 Ashbury 57 Woolstone 46 Kingston Lisle 31 Odstone 23 Knighton 12 Compton [Beauchamp] 10 Fawler 3
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Aussi connu sous

Hildslow

Lieu situé sous

Le Pays de Gual Hen

Titre du Gouverneur / Posseseur

Bailli

Organisation Propriétaire

Comté de Rydychan

Source

Wikipedia