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词条 Little Wittenham
释义

  1. Parish church

  2. Sites of interest

  3. See also

  4. References

  5. Sources

  6. External links

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Little Wittenham is a village and civil parish on the south bank of the River Thames, northeast of Didcot in South Oxfordshire. In 1974 it was transferred from Berkshire to the county of Oxfordshire and from Wallingford Rural District to the district of South Oxfordshire.

Parish church

The Church of England parish church of Saint Peter has a 14th-century west bell tower,{{sfn|Page & Ditchfield|1924|pp=380–384}} of which the lower stages are Decorated Gothic and the upper stages are Perpendicular Gothic.[2] In 1863 the nave and chancel in the Early English Gothic were rebuilt to designs by the Gothic Revival architect Charles Buckeridge.

St. Peter's has a number of monuments to members of the Dunche family who lived in Little Wittennham. The most notable is a large monument to Sir William Dunche (died 1611) and his wife.[2] The monument is missing a canopy and supports, but it retains alabaster effigies of Sir William and Lady Dunche,[2] a pair of obelisks[2] that would have surmounted the canopy and a pair of tablets commemorating the couple's children.

Several Dunches were MPs for Wallingford. They include Edmund Dunch (1657–1719), a Whig who was Queen Anne's Master of the Household and a member of the Kit-Kat Club.

Sites of interest

Little Wittenham has one of only 220 habitats across Europe which is designated as a Special Area of Conservation under European Union Council Directive 92/43/EEC on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora.{{citation needed|date=August 2012}}

Day's Lock is north-east of the village. On the opposite bank to the north-east, a little distance from the river itself, is the town of Dorchester-on-Thames which can be reached on foot via Little Wittenham Bridge.

South of the village are the hills of Wittenham Clumps and to the south-east is Little Wittenham Wood bordering on the river. From Round Hill, one of the Clumps, there is a view of the village to the north.

See also

  • Little Wittenham Nature Reserve
  • Long Wittenham
  • Sylva Foundation

References

1. ^{{cite web |url= http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=4&containerAreaId=790498 |title=Area selected: South Oxfordshire (Non-Metropolitan District) |author= |date= |work=Neighbourhood Statistics: Full Dataset View |publisher=Office for National Statistics |accessdate=30 March 2010}}
2. ^{{harvnb|Pevsner|1966|p=169}}

Sources

  • {{cite book |editor1-last=Page |editor1-first=W.H. |editor1-link=William Henry Page |editor2-last=Ditchfield |editor2-first=P.H. |editor2-link=Peter Ditchfield |series=Victoria County History |title=A History of the County of Berkshire, Volume 4 |year=1924 |location= |publisher= |pages=380–384 |ref=harv}}
  • {{cite book |last=Pevsner |first=Nikolaus |authorlink=Nikolaus Pevsner |series=The Buildings of England |title=Berkshire |year=1966 |location=Harmondsworth |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn= |pages=168–169 |ref=harv}}

External links

{{Commons category|Little Wittenham}}
  • Berkshire History: Little Wittenham
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20090422233524/http://www.northmoortrust.co.uk/ Northmoor Trust]
  • Project Timescape
  • Sylva Foundation
  • St Peter's Church
{{South Oxfordshire}}

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