Cuddesdon

Cuddesdon is a village in the civil parish of Cuddesdon and Denton, in the South Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England. The village lies ESE of Oxford. Ripon College Cuddesdon is a large Church of England clergy training centre in the village.

==History== Cuddesdon's toponym is derived from the Old English Cuddes Dune meaning "Cudde's Hill" or the "Hill of Cuthwine". Cuddesdon was an Anglo-Saxon linear village along in what is now the High Street, but since the 19th-century Church of England additions on the northern edge of the village and 20th-century residential developments (principally Bishop's Wood and Parkside), it has become a nuclear settlement centred on The Green. Since the 1950s many facilities and businesses in Cuddesdon, have closed, and most have been converted into housing. These include the petrol station, the shop, the school, the mill, the second public house and various farm buildings. Thus, the village has turned into a dormitory village.