The village of Hampton Gay has largely disappeared, leavg only an isolated church and the picturque s of an Elizabethan manor hoe. This post on Flash of Darkns scrib the village and s history.
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THE RUED MANOR THE LOST VILLAGE OF HAMPTON GAY
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The village of Hampton Gay has largely disappeared, leavg only an isolated church and the picturque s of an Elizabethan manor hoe. Fdg Hampton Gay.
Reflectns at The Manor, Hampton Gay, 2018.
HAMPTON GAY MANOR, OXFORDSHIRE
On Christmas Eve 1874 a crowd tra om Oxford me off the rails and rriag fell down to the nal bank between Hampton Gay and Shipton on Cherwell. About 30 people were killed and 70 jured, the worst tra crash up to... more * hampton gay train crash *
Hampton Gay is an ancient spot and much of the surroundg farmland on the nearby circular walk undulat as a rult of the e of the mould-board plough medieval tim. There you turn right across a bridge over the river Cherwell and arrive at Hampton Gay after a few mut walk. Ma Hampton Gay Gallery.
HAMPTON GAY VIEWPOT
The Gay fay were tenants of the two tat Hampton Gay the 12th and 13th centuri – the village name b their surname wh the Old English for a village or farm.
The Gays donated and sold land om the tate to var relig orrs cludg the ill-fated Knights Templars, the Abbey of Osney, jt outsi Oxford’s wt gate, and the Convent at Godstow. The manor hoe at Hampton Gay.
All the land owned by relig orrs at Hampton Gay were forfeed after the Dissolutn of the Monasteri. The story of the Barry fay at Hampton Gay om the the 16th to the 20th century is an tertg one that I’ve rearched. This clud a fe drawg of the Manor at Hampton Gay 1822 The origal is now the Bodleian Library.