Besselsleigh
Sign in to saveBesselsleigh or Bessels Leigh is an English village and civil parish about southwest of Oxford. Besselsleigh was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. The village is just off the A420 road between Oxford and Swindon.
Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Besselsleigh
- UK place.static_image_name
- Besselsleigh StLawrence South.JPG
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St Lawrence's parish church
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SP4501
- UK place.label_position
- bottom
- UK place.area_total_km2
- 3.67
- UK place.population
- 87
- UK place.population_ref
- (2001 Census)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Besselsleigh
- UK place.shire_district
- Vale of White Horse
- UK place.shire_county
- Oxfordshire
- UK place.region
- South East England
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.post_town
- Abingdon
- UK place.postcode_district
- OX13
- UK place.postcode_area
- OX
- UK place.dial_code
- 01865
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Witney
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Article
11 sectionsContents
- Manor
- Domesday Book
- Bessels
- Fettiplace
- Lenthall
- Parish church
- World War II air crash
- Economy and amenities
- See also
- References
- Sources
Besselsleigh or Bessels Leigh is an English village and civil parish about southwest of Oxford. Besselsleigh was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. The village is just off the A420 road between Oxford and Swindon.
==Manor== ===Domesday Book=== Besselsleigh is almost certainly the "Lea" or "Leigh" owned by a Saxon named Earmund in the 7th century. At the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 it was recorded (as "Leie") as having been held before the Norman Conquest by Northmann of Mereworth of Abingdon Abbey and to have passed under the same overall ownership to the minor feudal lord William the Chamberlain.