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Coordinates: 51°36′22″N 0°56′24″W / 51.606°N 0.940°W
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 Pishill parish church |
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 Pishill
Pishill shown within Oxfordshire |
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| OS grid reference | SU7289 |
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| Civil parish | Pishill with Stonor |
| District | South Oxfordshire |
| Shire county | Oxfordshire |
| Region | South East |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Henley-on-Thames |
| Postcode district | RG9 |
| Dialling code | 01491 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Oxfordshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | Henley |
| List of places: UK • England • Oxfordshire | |
Pishill (
/ˈpɪʃəl/) is a hamlet in Pishill with Stonor civil parish about 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Henley-on-Thames in South Oxfordshire. It is in the Stonor valley in the Chiltern Hills about 430 feet (130 m) above sea level.
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[edit] History
The toponym of Pishill comes from pisum, Latin for pea. This was due to the many pea farms that once existed in the area.[citation needed]
The dedication of the Church of England parish church is unknown. It was originally an 11th-century Norman building but it was rebuilt in 1854.[1] One of the stained glass windows was made in 1967 by John Piper,[2] who for many years lived less than 2.5 miles (4.0 km) away in Fawley Bottom, Buckinghamshire.
Southwest of the parish church is an old barn that includes a blocked 13th-century window. This may be connected with the D'Oyley family of Oxford, who held the manor of Pishill and in 1406 received a licence to build a chapel at the manor house that used to be in the village.[2]
The Stonor family of Stonor Park, just over 1 mile (1.6 km) away, were recusants during and after the English Reformation. With the support of the Stonors and Jesuit priests who stayed with them, a number of Pishill families remained Roman Catholic throughout the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. In 1878 the Church of England incumbent of Pishill reported that a third of the 200 population of his parish were Roman Catholic.[3]
Pishill was a separate civil parish until 1922, when it was made part of the new civil parish of Pishill with Stonor.[3]
[edit] Amenities
Pishill has a 15th-century public house, the Crown Inn.[4]
[edit] Sources
- Lobel, Mary D. (1964). Victoria County History: A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 8: Lewknor and Pyrton Hundreds. p. 98–115.
- Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 731–732. ISBN 0 14 071045 0.
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