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Nettlebed is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire in the Chiltern Hills about 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (7 km) north-west of Henley-on-Thames and 6 miles (10 km) south-east of Wallingford. The parish includes the hamlet of Crocker End, about 1 ⁄ 2 mile (800 m) east of the village.
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Nettlebed is a village on top of the Chilterns between the valley of the Thames at Henley and Wallingford in South Oxfordshire. It is a community of some 700 people set in the wooded countryside of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Nettlebed has a long and fascinating history.
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Nettlebed lies in the Chiltern hills c.8 kmnorth-west of Henley-on-Thames. (fn. 1)The village developed along the main Oxford-Henley road (turnpiked in1736), and besides the church includes several formerinns which served the coaching trade. Houses and farmselsewhere in the parish are more scattered, producingthe dispersed settlement characteristic...
Nettlebed belonged to the royal manor of Benson untilthe 13th century, (fn. 91) when a separate Nettlebed manor(held of the honor of Wallingford) was first created.Held from 1284 to 1362 by Rewley abbey, it subsequently reverted to the Crown, which granted it to royalservants until its acquisition by the Stonor family in the16th or 17th century. Th...
Until the 20th century Nettlebed's economy combinedindustry, agriculture, and trade. Brick and tile-makingand pottery production were undertaken on a considerable scale, employing specialized craftsmen andlabourers and numerous part-time agricultural workers. Sheep-and-corn husbandry, and later dairying andpig breeding, were widely practised by ten...
EDUCATION
A Nonconformist academy at Nettlebed was run by theIndependent minister Thomas Cole from 1666 to 1674,while in 1667 the churchwardens reported an unlicensed Anglican teacher. (fn. 357) A schoolmaster was mentioned in 1755, and a girls' boarding school operatedfrom 1760 to 1763. (fn. 358) In 1808 the parish supported twoboys' boarding schools and another for girls, a dayschool, a dame school, and a Sunday school; (fn. 359) all probably continued in 1818, though none was endowed,and the poor we...
CHARITIES AND POOR RELIEF
From the 16th century several of Nettlebed's inhabitants made small cash bequests to the poor, amongthem the landowners Thomas Box, Taverner Harris,and John Wallis. (fn. 369) Ralph Warcopp (d. 1605), of Englishin Newnham Murren, left 20 nobles (£6 13s. 4d.) forsetting the poor to work with flax, hemp, and wool, towhich Robert Butler (d. 1621) added a further 6s. 8d. (fn. 370) The charity was not mentioned later, and no others wereendowed until the 19th century, although Nettlebedwas among sev...
In the Middle Ages Nettlebed was a chapelry ofDorchester, but had its own small endowment (appropriated to Dorchester abbey), and probably functionedas an independent parish, evolving later into a perpetual curacy. From the 13th century the benefice was usually held with Pishill (another chapelry of Dorchester),although the living remained a poor o...
MANOR COURTS AND OFFICERS
John de Mandeville and possibly his tenants owed suitto Benson manor court in the 1270s, (fn. 462) and despite thecreation of a separate Nettlebed manor the tithing owedsuit at Benson's annual views of frankpledge until the19th century. In 1296–7 the vill was fined for failureto present a full tithing there, and in the 15th and 16thcenturies the tithingman presented minor misdemeanours and paid 15d. cert money. By the 16th centuryhe was joined there by a constable, one of whose predecessors w...
PARISH GOVERNMENT AND OFFICERS
Nettlebed had two churchwardens by 1530, brieflyassisted in the 17th century by a sidesman. (fn. 472) A pettyconstable was mentioned from 1662 to 1843, (fn. 473) andparish clerks from the 1680s. (fn. 474)Presumably they andother officers (including overseers of the poor and surveyors of highways) were appointed by a parish vestry,but no minutes are known. After 1834 the parish belonged to Henley Poor LawUnion, becoming part of Henley Rural District in1894 (fn. 475) when a new parish council w...
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Place: Nettlebed Oxfordshire. Click on the map for other historical maps of this place. In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Nettlebed like this: NETTLEBED, a village and a parish in Henley district, Oxford.
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