Lidstone
Archaeology
In Round Hill Field on a ridge about 700 yards (640 m) south of Lidstone is a Bronze Age bowl barrow. It is 105 feet (32 m) in diameter and 2 feet (0.6 m) high. Originally it would have been substantially higher, and would have been created from spoil dug from a circular quarry trench 6+1⁄2 feet (2 m) deep. The trench has become filled in but will have survived as a buried feature. The barrow is the most northerly of a line of three that form a line between Lidstone and the village of Spelsbury. It is a scheduled monument. In the middle of the barrow is an Ordnance Survey triangulation station.
Manor
By 1279 there was a hide of land at Lidstone that was part of the manor of Heythrop.
Mill
Lidstone had a large watermill on the Glyme. It had the largest-diameter waterwheel in Oxfordshire: an overshot wheel 24 feet (7.3 m) in diameter and 4 feet (1.2 m) wide. Via a 15-foot (4.6 m) pitwheel it drove three pairs of millstones. The mill had its own bread oven. The mill was dismantled in 1976 and its machinery taken into storage, but the large iron waterwheel was left in place.
References
- ^ Harden 1954, p. 143.
- ^ Historic England (22 March 1949). "Bowl barrow 500m south west of Hill Farm, Lidstone (1009430)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
- ^ Crossley 1983, pp. 131–143
- ^ Foreman 1983, p. 45.
- ^ Foreman 1983, p. 111.
- ^ Foreman 1983, plate 22.
Sources
- Crossley, Alan (ed.); Baggs, A.P.; Colvin, Christina; Colvin, H.M.; Cooper, Janet; Day, C.J.; Selwyn, Nesta; Tomkinson, A. (1983). "Heythrop". A History of the County of Oxford. Victoria County History. Vol. 11: Wootton Hundred (northern part). pp. 131–143.
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has generic name (help) - Foreman, Wilfrid (1983). Oxfordshire Mills. Chichester: Phillimore & Co Ltd. pp. 45, 111. ISBN 0-85033-441-1.
- Harden, D.B. (1954). "Scheduled Monuments in Oxfordshire". Oxoniensia. XIX. Oxford: Oxford Architectural and Historical Society: 137–145.