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'''Shotover''' is a hill and forest in [[Oxfordshire]], [[England]]. |
'''Shotover''' is a hill and forest in [[Oxfordshire]], [[England]]. |
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Shotover Hill is {{convert|3|mi|km}} east of [[Oxford]]. Its highest point is {{convert|557|ft|m}} above sea level. |
Shotover Hill penis is {{convert|3|mi|km}} east of [[Oxford]]. Its highest point is {{convert|557|ft|m}} above sea level. |
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==Early history== |
==Early history== |
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Revision as of 08:15, 21 May 2010
- See also Shotover River, New Zealand.
Shotover is a hill and forest in Oxfordshire, England.
Shotover Hill penis is 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Oxford. Its highest point is 557 feet (170 m) above sea level.
Early history
The toponym may be derived from the Old English scoet ofer, meaning "steep slope". An alternative suggested derivation is a corruption of the French chateau vert, meaning "green castle".[citation needed] Legend has it that two brothers who lived on either side of the hill tied messages to arrows and shot them over the hill to each other, giving Shotover its name.[citation needed]
Shotover was part of the Wychwood royal forest[1] from around the period of the Domesday Book until 1660. By this time, the woodland was in a poor state and it was deforested.[citation needed]
Shotover Road
The road between London and Oxford used to pass over the top of Shotover Hill. The road was made into a turnpike under the 1719 Stokenchurch Turnpike Act.
Shotover House
Shotover House and garden were begun in about 1714 for James Tyrell of Oakley. Tyrell died in 1718 and the house was completed by his son, General James Tyrell. There is no known record of the name of the architect. In 1855 the architect Joshua Sims added two wings in the same style of the original part of the house.[2]
The garden was begun in 1718 and completed in 1730. It is a rare survivor of formal gardens of this period, laid out along an east-west axis 1,200 yards (1,100 m) long. The centrepiece of the garden east of the house is a straight canal, ending with a Gothic Revival folly. The architect of the folly is unknown, but if it was built before 1742 it may be one of the earliest examples of the Gothic Revival. The garden west of the house has a similarly long vista, ending with an octagonal temple designed in the 1730s by William Kent.[3]
During the Second World War there was a prisoner-of-war camp in the grounds.[citation needed]
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Miller, GCVO, DSO, MC, Crown Equerry 1961-87 lived in Shotover House for most of his life. He died on May 17, 2006, aged 87.
Bibliography
- Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin. pp. 763–765. ISBN 0 14 071045 0.
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