| 词条 | Uffington, Oxfordshire |
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|official_name= Uffington |static_image_name= Uffington church - geograph.org.uk - 1175199.jpg |static_image_caption= St Mary's parish church |coordinates = {{coord|51.61|-1.56|display=inline,title}} |os_grid_reference= SU3089 |population= 783 |population_ref= (2011 Census) |civil_parish= Uffington |shire_district= Vale of White Horse |shire_county= Oxfordshire |region= South East England |country= England |post_town= Faringdon |postcode_district= SN7 |postcode_area= SN |dial_code= 01367 |constituency_westminster= Wantage |website= Uffington.net }}Uffington is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about {{convert|4|mi}} south of Faringdon and {{convert|6|mi|0}} west of Wantage. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 783.[1] Within the historic county boundaries of Berkshire, in 1974 it was transferred for local government purposes to Oxfordshire under the Local Government Act 1972. Uffington is most commonly known for the Uffington White Horse hill figure on the Berkshire Downs in the south of the parish. Geography and characterThe village is about {{convert|1|mi}} north of the foot of the Berkshire Downs escarpment and {{convert|1+1/4|mi|0}} north of the B4507 road that links Wantage and Ashbury. Its older houses are built of chalk blocks and thatched. The parish church is nicknamed "The Cathedral of the Vale". The village is in the middle of the Vale of White Horse, which is the valley of the River Ock. Like many parishes in the Vale, Uffington parish is long and thin, running north-south, so that it includes both low-lying arable land and grazing upland on the Berkshire Downs. It measures about {{convert|4+1/2|mi|0}} north – south, and almost {{convert|1+1/2|mi}} east – west at its widest point. In 1924 its area was {{convert|6451|acre}}. The parish formerly included Baulking and Woolstone.[2] The River Ock forms most of the northern boundary of the parish. The western boundary crosses Dragon Hill, White Horse Hill, Uffington Down and the gallops on Woolstone Down. The eastern boundary crosses Kingston Warren Down and Ram's Hill, almost to Fawler and partly along Stutfield Brook. Local governmentUffington is in the Vale of White Horse District and has a parish council. The village has been twinned with Le Chevain in France since 1991. ArchaeologySee main articles: Uffington White Horse, Dragon Hill, Uffington Castle and The Ridgeway{{Unreferenced-section|date=September 2018}} The White Horse is one of the United Kingdom's best-known archaeological sites. It is a {{convert|374|ft|m}} long Bronze Age hill figure, cut out of the turf on White Horse Hill on the Berkshire Downs just south of the village of Woolstone. It is generally thought{{by whom|date=January 2011}} to have been a Celtic religious totem, associated with the people who were later called the Atrebates. The white horse may have been associated with the adjoining Dragon Hill, a small natural hillock with an artificially flattened top. Above these stands Uffington Castle, an Iron Age hill fort (overlying a Bronze Age predecessor) where some of this tribe may have lived. There are also a number of associated burial mounds and there are others further south. Just south of the hill fort the Ridgeway passes through the parish. Ram's Hill seems to have been a Bronze Age cattle ranching and trading centre. Contrary to popular Victorian theories, the Battle of Ashdown in AD 871 was not fought at Uffington and the White Horse was not created as a monument by King Alfred's men. ToponymyThe earliest known records of the toponym are as Uffentun and Offentona in Anglo-Saxon charters from AD 931 now reproduced in the Cartularium Saxonicum.[3] Another 10th- and 11th-century spelling was Offentune.[2] The Domesday Book of 1086 records it as Offentone.[3] Later spellings include Offinton in the 13th century, Uffinton in the 14th century and Offington in the 16th century.[2] The name is derived from Old English and means "the tūn of Uffa's people".[3] The word tūn originally meant "fence", but had come to mean an enclosure or homestead.[4] ManorUffington is recorded in 10th century boundary charters. In AD 931 Earl Æthelstan granted a large estate at Uffington by seisin to Abingdon Abbey.{{sfn|Loyn|1962|pp=171–172}} The abbey held the manor throughout the Middle Ages and in 1291 King Edward I visited his grange there.[2] In 1630 Elizabeth Craven, widow of Sir William Craven, bought the manors of Uffington and Compton from Sir Francis Jones. This began a 329-year connection between the Craven family and Uffington. St Mary's parish church suffered in the Civil War because of the Craven family's Royalism. The Earls of Craven lived not in Uffington but at nearby Ashdown House.[2] Parish churchThe Church of England parish church of St Mary is cruciform and was completed about 1250. The tower central, positioned over the crossing between the nave, chancel and transepts, and is octagonal. Some of the present windows were inserted in the 17th century. In the south transept is a Jacobean monument to John Saunders, who died in 1638. It has a semi-reclining effigy of Saunders set in a semi-circular coffered arch, with a large plaque surrounded by strapwork. The crossing tower had a ring of five bells[2] until 1992, when they were increased to six by the addition of a new treble bell.[5] The five original bells were all recast in 1657,[2] but each has since been recast again. In 1762 Thomas Rudhall of Gloucester recast the tenor bell and in 1770 Robert I Wells of Aldbourne, Wiltshire recast what is now the fifth bell. In 1803 James Wells, also of Aldbourne, recast what is now the second bell. Mears and Stainbank of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry recast the fourth bell in 1867 and the third bell in 1886. The Whitechapel Bell Foundry also cast the treble bell that was added in 1992.[5] St Mary's church is a Grade I listed building.[6] Its parish is part of the Benefice of Uffington, Shellingford, Woolstone and Baulking.[7] Economic historyThe common lands of Uffington, Baulking and Woolstone were enclosed in 1776.[2] Between 1805 and 1807 the section of the Wilts & Berks Canal between Longcot and Challow was completed.{{sfn|Dalby|2000|p=23}} It passes through the parish just north of the village. Uffington had its own wharf, just northwest of the village, where Wharf Farm now is. Traffic on the canal had virtually ceased by 1901 and the route was formally abandoned in 1914. The Wilts & Berks Canal Trust is currently restoring the canal. The Great Western Main Line was built through the parish in 1840, passing just over {{convert|1/2|mi|m}} north of the village. In 1864 the Faringdon Railway was completed, joining the Great Western at a junction {{convert|1|mi}} northeast of the village. Uffington railway station was opened at the junction. British Railways closed the station in 1964. Notable residents
Amenities and eventsUffington has a pub, the Fox and Hounds.[10] Uffington United Football Club[11] plays in North Berks Football League Division Three.[12] Uffington Cricket Club[11] plays in Oxfordshire Cricket Association Division Four.[13] Uffington has also a tennis club.[11] The Uffington White Horse Show[14] is held annually, with the profits being distributed for the benefit of the residents of Uffington, Baulking and Woolstone by a registered charity.[15] References1. ^{{cite web |url= https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/reports/localarea?compare=1170217901 |title=Uffington Parish |work=nomis |publisher=Office for National Statistics |accessdate=3 September 2018}} 2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 {{harvnb|Ditchfield|Page|1924|pp=543–551}} 3. ^1 2 {{harvnb|Ekwall|1960|loc=Uffington}} 4. ^{{harvnb|Ekwall|1960|loc=tūn}} 5. ^1 {{cite web |url= http://dove.cccbr.org.uk/detail.php?searchString=Uffington&Submit=+Go+&DoveID=UFFINGTONO |title=Uffington S Mary |last=Davies |first=Peter |date=11 November 2014 |work=Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers |publisher=Central Council for Church Bell Ringers |accessdate=21 April 2016}} 6. ^{{NHLE |num=1198865 |desc=Church of St Mary |grade=I |accessdate=21 April 2016}} 7. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.achurchnearyou.com/benefice.php?B=27/527BL |title=Benefice of Uffington Shellingford Woolstone and Baulking |author=Archbishops' Council |publisher=Church of England |accessdate=21 April 2016 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304200631/http://www.achurchnearyou.com/benefice.php?B=27%2F527BL |archivedate=4 March 2016 |df=dmy-all}} 8. ^Tom Brown's School Museum 9. ^Thomas Hughes Memorial Hall, Uffington 10. ^The Fox & Hounds Uffington 11. ^1 2 {{cite web |url= http://www.uffington.net/clubs-associations/ |title=Clubs & Associations |work=Uffington.net |accessdate=21 April 2016}} 12. ^North Berks Football League 13. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.oxfordshirecricketassociation.org.uk/tables/tables_all.asp |title=Tables |publisher=Oxfordshire Cricket Association |accessdate=21 April 2016}} 14. ^Uffington White Horse Show 15. ^{{EW charity|1151533|The White Horse Show Trust Limited}} Bibliography
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