Charlbury
Charlbury () is a town and civil parish in the Evenlode valley, about north of Witney in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England. It is on the edge of Wychwood Forest and the Cotswolds. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 2,830.
Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Walcot
- UK place.static_image_name
- Top Barn, Walcot - geograph.org.uk - 989293.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Top Barn, Walcot
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SP3519
- UK place.label_position
- top
- UK place.population
- 2830
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011 Census)
- UK place.shire_district
- West Oxfordshire
- UK place.shire_county
- Oxfordshire
- UK place.region
- South East England
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.post_town
- Chipping Norton
Article
12 sectionsContents
- Place name
- Notable buildings
- Parish church
- Religious Society of Friends
- Transport
- Media
- Amenities
- Walcot
- See also
- References
- Sources
- External links
Charlbury () is a town and civil parish in the Evenlode valley, about north of Witney in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England. It is on the edge of Wychwood Forest and the Cotswolds. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 2,830.
==Place name== Toponymic evidence suggests that Charlbury was an Anglo-Saxon settlement from an early date, and may be associated with 'Faerpinga in Middelenglum' listed in the Tribal Hidage of the 7th to 9th centuries. The name is a compound of two Old English elements. Burh is a fortified place. Ceorl (probably pronounced ) is a "freeman of the lowest class", but other sources suggest it was also a personal name. For this reason some hold the latter two pronunciations more valid than the former, and the current spelling not phonetic, preferring "Chorlbury". The similarity between "Ceorl" and the personal name "Charles" is no accident: "Charles", "ceorl" and "churl", along with the modern German name "Karl" derive from the same Proto-Germanic word *karlaz.