Ackhampstead
Ackhampstead (literally 'oak homestead' in Old English[1]) or 'The Moor' was an ancient township[2] (or chapelry) in the Chiltern Hills, south of Lane End.
Until 1844 it was a detached part of Oxfordshire in the parish of Lewknor, part of a division of the parish known as Lewknor Uphill consisting of three detached parts. It was transferred to Buckinghamshire by the Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844. By the mid-nineteenth century the population of the community was negligible. The Bishop of Oxford demolished its medieval chapel and replaced it with a new church at Cadmore End.[3] In 1885 the division of Lewknor Uphill was dismembered. Ackhampstead was transferred to the parish of Great Marlow for ecclesiastical purposes,[2] and became part of the civil parish of Great Marlow in 1895.[4]
In 1934 the western end, including Moor Farm, became part of the civil parish of Fingest, renamed Fingest and Lane End in 1937,[5] and is now in Lane End parish. The greater part, including the site of the chapel and Moor Wood, remains in Great Marlow parish. A detailed history of Ackhampstead was compiled by Dr Gordon Wyatt in 1969 for the Frieth Village Society.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Oxlade Family History
- ^ a b A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 8: Lewknor and Pyrton hundreds
- ^ The Townsend Papers
- ^ Page, William, ed. (1925). Victoria County History of Buckinghamshire: Volume 3: Great Marlow. pp. 65–77.
- ^ Vision of Britain website: Fingest and Lane End Archived 2011-06-28 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Frieth History website: Ackhampstead
External links
[edit]- Gerry Palmer (17 January 2011). "Ackhampstead - The Chapel that Vanished". Archaeology in Marlow. Retrieved 27 February 2011.
- Maurice Beresford (1954). "Lost Villages of England". Lutterworth Press. Archived from the original on 28 October 2016.
- Vision of Britain: Boundary map of Lewknor Uphill
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