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Name | Brightwell Prior |
Alt names | Britwell Prior | source: alternate spelling | | Britwell-Prior | source: Family History Library Catalog |
Type | Chapelry, Civil parish |
Coordinates | 51.634°N 1.03°W |
Located in | Oxfordshire, England ( - 1912) |
See also | Ewelme Hundred, Oxfordshire, England | ancient county division in which it was located | | Newington, Oxfordshire, England | ancient parish of which it was a chapelry | | Henley Rural, Oxfordshire, England | rural district in which it was located 1894-1912 | | Britwell, Oxfordshire, England | civil parish into which it was transferred in 1912 | | South Oxfordshire District, Oxfordshire, England | district municipality covering the area since 1974 |
- source: Family History Library Catalog
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Brightwell Prior from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "BRIGHTWELL-PRIOR, or Britwell-Prior, a chapelry in Newington parish, Oxford; under the Chilterns, 1¾ mile SW of Watlington, and 7½ NW by N of Wallingford-Road [railway] station. Post Town, Britwell-Salome under Wallingford. Real property: £866. Population: 43. Houses: 6. The manor belonged formerly to the Welds; and Brightwell House is now the seat of H. Reeves, Esq. An ancient priory stood here; and a nunnery of St. Clare was set up for some time by French Nuns who fled from the first revolution. The living is a [perpetual] curacy, annexed to the rectory of Newington, in the diocese of Oxford. The church is Norman in the nave, and early English in the chancel; and has a decorated font."
Brightwell Prior became a separate civil parish in 1866. In 1912 it was abolished and became part of the newly-formed parish of Britwell within Henley Rural District. (Source: A Vision of Britain through Time)
The coordinates for Brightwell Prior given above are an estimate based on a possible location on Google Earth. None of the usual sources consulted yielded exact location data.
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Categories: Oxfordshire, England | Brightwell Prior, Oxfordshire, England | Newington, Oxfordshire, England | Ewelme Hundred, Oxfordshire, England | Britwell, Oxfordshire, England | Henley Rural, Oxfordshire, England | South Oxfordshire District, Oxfordshire, England
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