Besselsleigh

Also known as Besselsleigh, Oxfordshire, Besselsleigh, Oxon

Besselsleigh or Bessels Leigh is an English village and civil parish about southwest of Oxford. Besselsleigh was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. The village is just off the A420 road between Oxford and Swindon.

Key facts

UK place.official_name: Besselsleigh
UK place.static_image_name: Besselsleigh StLawrence South.JPG
UK place.static_image_caption: St Lawrence's parish church
UK place.os_grid_reference: SP4501
UK place.label_position: bottom
UK place.area_total_km2: 3.67
UK place.population: 87
UK place.population_ref: (2001 Census)
UK place.civil_parish: Besselsleigh
UK place.shire_district: Vale of White Horse
UK place.shire_county: Oxfordshire
UK place.region: South East England
UK place.country: England
UK place.post_town: Abingdon
UK place.postcode_district: OX13
UK place.postcode_area: OX
UK place.dial_code: 01865
UK place.constituency_westminster: Witney

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Wikidata facts

Population: 94
Area: 3.67
Image: Besselsleigh StLawrence South.JPG
Dialing code: 01865

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Commons category: Besselsleigh
postal code: OX13
OS grid reference: SP4501

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Contents

Manor
Domesday Book
Bessels
Fettiplace
Lenthall
Parish church
World War II air crash
Economy and amenities
See also
References
Sources

==Manor== ===Domesday Book=== Besselsleigh is almost certainly the "Lea" or "Leigh" owned by a Saxon named Earmund in the 7th century. At the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 it was recorded (as "Leie") as having been held before the Norman Conquest by Northmann of Mereworth of Abingdon Abbey and to have passed under the same overall ownership to the minor feudal lord William the Chamberlain.