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Croughton Road Cottages

 
 
Croughton Road Cottages - They were built circa 1650, making them 350 years old, as were most of the stone cottages in the village. This row appears on James Fish’s map of 1696 and they are typical of the time as agricultural labourers tied cottages. The Cartwrights owned every cottage in the village. They, eventually, sold most or them at auction. very early On in the war (in 1941). The stone they are built with is locally quarried and is full of fossils from the Jurassic period (circa one million years old).

One by the pub was a shop on and off for many years during the C19th.

Notes:
Three of the cottages have a third story added. Cottages like this in Oxfordshire usually indicate that they were lived in/used by men in the weaving industry. There is no record of this in Aynho.
The original apricot trees growing on all the south facing cottages were brought from Italy by Sir Thomas Cartwright, a career diplomat; they were not, as local legned has it, grown in place of feudal dues (apricots were not brought to England until the mid sixteenth century and then by Henry VIII ‘s gardener).
 
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