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Ewelme (/ ˈ j uː ɛ l m /) is a village and civil parish in the Chiltern Hills in South Oxfordshire, 2.5 miles (4 km) north-east of the market town of Wallingford. The 2011 census recorded the parish's population as 1,048. [1]
Ewelme is an historic Oxfordshire village of about 250 houses and 500 residents. It is nestled in a valley at the base of the Chiltern Hills about 4 miles east of Wallingford and 15 miles south of Oxford.
14 de feb. de 2023 · You feel you can almost touch the late Middle Ages at Ewelme. This small settlement near Wallingford, south of Oxford, is where William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, and his wife, Alice Chaucer — granddaughter of Geoffrey and a great heiress — maintained and extended their palace.
Oxfordshire ( / ˈɒksfərdʃər, - ʃɪər / OKS-fərd-shər, -sheer; abbreviated Oxon) is a ceremonial county in South East England. The county is bordered by Northamptonshire and Warwickshire to the north, Buckinghamshire to the east, Berkshire to the south, and Wiltshire and Gloucestershire to the west.
Ewelme is a village and civil parish in the Chiltern Hills in South Oxfordshire, 2.5 miles north-east of the market town of Wallingford. The 2011 census recorded the parish's population as 1,048. Map. Directions. Satellite. Photo Map. ewelme.info. Wikipedia. Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
After Ewelme’s prominence in the 16th century it again became a quiet agrarian community with the land farmed by a succession of wealthy yeoman farmers. Most village men worked on the land and wives obtained domestic work for the ‘big’ houses.
She died in 1475 and was buried in St Mary's Church, Ewelme, where survives her elaborate cadaver tomb monument. [6] [7] The alabaster monument, almost undamaged by time, consists of a chest tomb on top of which is the recumbent effigy of the Duchess, with a canopy of panelled stone above.
