A beautiful Cotswold
village in Oxfordshire
A beautiful Cotswold
village in Oxfordshire
| Date | Record/event |
|---|---|
| c200 BC-350 AD | A Romano-British settlement exists on the western side of Kingham Hill |
| c600 | A hamlet close to the river Evenlode is named after a local chieftain Caega |
| 1086 | Domesday Book, Lord of the Manor – Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, 10 hides, 19 villeins, 4 serfs, 4 plough teams, 1 mill, population circa 180 |
| 1136 | Rector were appointed by Walden Abbey from this date until the Dissolution of the Monasteries |
| Thirteenth Century | |
| 1240 | Philip de Mandeville dies and over-lordship of Kingham split three ways to his daughters, Clementia, Juliana and Agnes (who married Thomas de Hunte of Chadlington). |
| 1253 | First recorded name for a Rector of Kingham church – Gulfridus de Wulward |
| 1254 | Clementia’s share including the manor house passes to Walter de Grey |
| 1279 | 100 Year Rolls, Lord of the Manor now Ralph de Chasteleyn, 14 hides, 15 freemen, 24 villeins, no serfs, I mill, 2 blacksmiths, 44 families, population circa 240. Ralph probably rebuilds the church in the early 14th century. |
| Fourteenth Century | |
| 1313 | Ralph de Chasteleyn appointed Knight of the Shire for Oxfordshire and attends Parliament, he also probably starts construction of the church around this time |
| 1336 | Ralph de Chasteleyn dies in a fight with the de Noyers of Churchill, his son Gilbert succeeds to the lordship and crenellates the manor house |
| 1348 | The Black Death |
| 1360 | Gilbert de Chateleyn engages in sheep farming as there were fewer labourers and mortgages the manor and his third of the over-lordship, later selling it to Alice Perrers the King’s mistress. |
| 1377 | On the death of the King, Alice stripped of her possessions |
| 1380 | The manor and one-third of the over-lordship sold to William de Wykeham who uses it to endow New College, Oxford |
| Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries | |
| 1403 | Edmund Earl of Stafford holds one of the other two over-lordships through marriage to his wife Ann (a member of the Beaufo family) |
| c1500 | First record of Keene family living in Kingham (John Kyne) the family remained an integral part of Kingham life until at least 1944, many of them stonemasons |
| 1544 | The date of the first three recorded wills in the Kingham collection, all provide for some income to the church, witnessed by Stephen Farrand (Rector 1535-55) |
| Seventeenth century | |
| 1603-6 | Mortuary fees case at the Oxford Ecclesiastical Court (George Morecroft the Rector versus Isabel Harris) |
| 1643 | Civil War battle of the Evenlode takes place close to Kingham |
| 1659-74 | Warden Michael Woodward of New College makes several visits to Kingham to oversee the college estate. The other two over-lordships were held by Thomas Ramsden of Yorkshire and Sir Rowland Lacy of Charlbury (possibly the eventual inheritor of Agnes share of the over-lordship) |
| 1688 | The church chancel was rebuilt and a new Kingham Rectory was built by William Dowdeswell |
| Eighteenth Century | |
| 1710 | Ramsden’s manorial property in Kingham sold by William Horton of Yorkshire |
| 1717 | First school in the village |
| 1789 | William Smith of Churchill (of geology fame) surveys Kingham fields for a new rating system |
| 1797 | Baptist meeting house in West End approved by the Bishop of Oxford |
| Nineteenth Century | |
| 1842 | Kingham Club established |
| 1850 | Kingham Enclosure Act passed. The over-lordships by now have devolved to two major land-owners, New College and the Rector, John Lockwood |
| 1855 | Railway station opened at Kingham along with the branch line to Chipping Norton |
| 1862 | Methodist Chapel established |
| 1869 | New College cedes the village green to Kingham following enclosure |
| c1870 | Langston Arms built and Caleb Lainchbury establishes a yard in Kingham |
| 1881 | Caleb Lainchbury moves to Kingham and the Lainchbury business takes off |
| 1885 | Charles Baring Young starts construction of Kingham Hill School which opens in 1886 |
| 1890s | Kingham Swifts soccer team formed, renamed All Blacks in 1928 |
| Twentieth Century | |
| 1910 | Baring Young funds the building of the village hall |
| 1912 | New village school built |
| 1913 | William Warde Fowler publishes Kingham Old and New |
| 1914-18 | Nine Kingham residents die in the First World War |
| 1920 | First homes built in New Road area |
| 1922 | Manor house demolished |
| 1941 | Two Kingham residents die this year in the Second World War |
| 1943 | The area around Kingham becomes the largest battlefield ammunition storage site in the UK (8th US Airforce Depot) |
| 1964 | Chipping Norton branch line closed |
| 1982 | Last livestock market held at Kingham |
| 1987 | Lainchbury yard closes |
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