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Cuddesdon
Cuddesdon is located in Oxfordshire
Cuddesdon
Cuddesdon
Location within Oxfordshire
Population502 (parish, including Denton) (2001 census)[1]
OS grid referenceSP6003
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townOxford
Postcode districtOX44
Dialling code01865
PoliceThames Valley
FireOxfordshire
AmbulanceSouth Central
UK Parliament
WebsiteCuddesdon and Denton Community Website
List of places
UK
England
Oxfordshire
51°43′23″N 1°07′59″W / 51.723°N 1.133°W / 51.723; -1.133

Cuddesdon is a mainly rural village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Cuddesdon and Denton, in the South Oxfordshire district, in the county of Oxfordshire, England. centred 5.5 miles (9 km) ESE of Oxford. It has the largest Church of England clergy training centre, Ripon College Cuddesdon. Residents number approximately 430 in Cuddesdon's nucleated village centre and about 70 in the hamlets of Denton and Chippinghurst (2001 census).[citation needed]

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History

Cuddesdon's toponym is derived from the Old English Cuddes Dune meaning "Cudde's Hill" or the "Hill of Cuthwine". When Oxfordshire was administered in the hundreds, Cuddesdon parish was in the hundred of Bullingdon.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed]

In 1961 the parish had a population of 342.[2] On 1 April 1962 the parish was abolished and merged with Denton to form "Cuddesdon and Denton".[3]

Site

The parish is bounded by the River Thame to the east and southeast, its tributary Cuddesdon Brook to the north, by the road between Wheatley and Garsington to the west and by field boundaries to the southwest. The village is on a hill that overlooks south Oxfordshire, northern Berkshire, the Aylesbury Vale in central Buckinghamshire and a small part of west Bedfordshire.[citation needed] There are views of both the Chiltern Hills and the North Wessex Downs AONB stretching from Ivinghoe Beacon in the east to Didcot Power Station in the west.

The village today

Culture and events

A free monthly parish newsletter is combined with social venues and events in the village, such as the annual Guy Fawkes Night fireworks, a summer fête and various groups that meet regularly such as the film club.[citation needed] Most social activities are organised or coordinated by the Parish Council or its subsidiaries. The Church of England parish church of All Saints, the Bat and Ball inn, the Village Hall, Ripon College Cuddesdon and the farms are economically active.[citation needed]

Ripon College Cuddesdon from the north-west, with the Chiltern escarpment visible beyond
Cuddesdon villagers and students Christmas Carolling on the village green 16 December 2007

Public policy

In November 2007 a public consultation was held on the proposed Parish Plan, a strategic document aiming to chart the hopes of the village for twenty years to come.[citation needed] Formal encouragement exists in civil parish and district planning policy to reopen a village shop, as yet unforthcoming.

Ecclesiastical presence

Parish church

Abingdon Abbey founded the Church of England parish church of All Saints in Cuddesdon in about 1180.[4] All Saints' parish belongs to the Aston and Cuddesdon Deanery of the Diocese of Oxford.

Bishop's palace

Cuddesdon Palace was completed by 1634 for John Bancroft, who was Bishop of Oxford from 1632 until 1641.[5] In 1644 during the English Civil War Royalist forces burned the palace to render it unusable by the Parliamentarian forces besieging Oxford.[5] In 1676 John Fell was made Bishop of Oxford and in 1679 he commissioned the complete rebuilding of the palace.[5] In 1846 Bishop Samuel Wilberforce had the chapel of Saints Peter and Paul added to the Palace.[5] It was designed by the Gothic Revival architect Benjamin Ferrey.[5] Successive Bishops of Oxford resided at the palace until Thomas Banks Strong retired in 1937.[5] For the duration of the Second World War Queen Anne's Bounty was evacuated from London and occupied the palace.[5] Thereafter, The Society of the Salutation of Mary the Virgin occupied the palace from 1946 until 1949.[5] In the 1960s the palace was in private use for a few years, but it burnt down before the end of that decade. The bishop's chapel escaped the fire and survives today.[6]

Theological college

In 1854 Bishop Wilberforce founded Cuddesdon College on land opposite the Palace to train men to become Anglican clergy. In 1975 the college merged with Ripon Hall to form Ripon College Cuddesdon. Due to the extent of past and present church connections, the village is also known as the "Holy Hill". It has been suggested that in Cuddesdon "the presence of the Church has been more strongly felt than perhaps anywhere else in England".[7]

Territorial designation

After his retirement in 1991, Robert Runcie, former archbishop of Canterbury, a former vicar of Cuddesdon and college principal, was granted a peerage as Baron Runcie of Cuddesdon to remain in the House of Lords.

Notable people

See also

References

  1. ^ "Area: Cuddesdon and Denton CP (Parish): Parish Headcounts". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2010.
  2. ^ "Population statistics Cuddesdon AP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
  3. ^ "Relationships and changes Cuddesdon AP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
  4. ^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 562.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h Lobel 1957, pp. 96–116.
  6. ^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 563.
  7. ^ Chapman 2004[page needed]
  8. ^ A History of the County of Oxford Vol 5 and http://www.bernieworld.net/Cemeteries/Murrisk/Murrisk%20Cemetery.htm Archived 5 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine

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