Goosey

Goosey

Goosey

Human settlement in England

Goosey is a village and civil parish in England, about 4.5 miles (7 km) northwest of Wantage in the Vale of White Horse.[2] Goosey was part of Berkshire until 1974, when the Vale of White Horse was transferred to Oxfordshire.

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Toponym

Goosey's toponym has evolved from the forms Gosie, Gosi and Goseig used in the 11th century, through Goseya in the 12th century and Gossehay in the 16th century before reaching its current form.[3]

Manor

King Offa of Mercia is recorded as having given the Manor of Goosey to Abingdon Abbey in the 8th century in exchange for Andresey, an island adjacent to the abbey.[3] In the 11th century the manor was assessed during the reign of King Edward the Confessor (1042–66) as having 17 hides and worth £9; and then in the Domesday Book of 1086 as having 11 hides and worth £10.[3] The abbey continued to hold the manor until 1538, when in the Dissolution of the Monasteries it was forced to surrender all its estates to the Crown.[3]

In 1544 Henry Norris of Rycote and his wife Margery obtained a grant of the manor in fee.[3] Goosey remained in the Norris family until Henry Norris' grandson Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire sold it in 1608.[3] Goosey then passed through the Tawyer, Matthews and Saxton families until the early 19th century, when Sir Charles Saxton left it to his niece Mary, the wife of Admiral Robert Dudley Oliver.[3] The Oliver family still held the manor in the 1920s.[3]

Parish church

The Church of England parish church of All Saints' has an Early English nave that was built in the 13th century.[4] The present chancel is a late 16th-century Tudor addition.[4] The church has a king post roof.[5] The vestry on the north side of the church[4] and the bell-turret on the nave gable[5] were added in the 19th century. All Saints' is a chapelry of the parish of St Denys, Stanford in the Vale.[3] All Saints' building is Grade II* listed.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    "Area: Goosey CP (Parish): Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  2. [2]
    "Parish and Town Councils in Oxfordshire" (PDF). Oxfordshire County Council. February 2012. Retrieved 20 May 2012.[permanent dead link]
  3. [3]
    Page & Ditchfield 1924, pp. 478–485
  4. [4]
    Historic England (24 November 1966). "Church of All Saints (1368468)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  5. [5]
    Pevsner 1966, p. 146.

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