Pusey, Oxfordshire

Pusey
Pusey  Pusey shown within Oxfordshire
Population	55 (2001 census)[1]
OS grid reference	SU3596
Civil parish	Pusey
District	Vale of White Horse
Shire county	Oxfordshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Postcode district	SN7
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Oxfordshire
Ambulance	South Central
EU Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Wantage
List of places UK England Oxfordshire

Pusey is a hamlet and civil parish 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Faringdon in the Vale of White Horse district. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. The village is just south of the A420 and the parish covers about 1,000 acres (400 ha).

Pusey seems to be a Saxon settlement. Its toponym is derived from the Old English pise ēg, meaning "pea island".^[2] The Domesday Book of 1086 records the village as Pesei.

The Pusey family held the manor of Pusey from Saxon times. There is a tradition that it was granted to the family by Cnut the Great, by the delivery of a horn (an Anglo-Saxon form of land tenure known as "cornage"). The Pusey Horn is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.^[3]

In 1753 the family built Pusey House (not to be confused with Pusey House, Oxford), where Edward Bouverie Pusey, English churchman and Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford, was born in 1800.

The Church of England parish church of All Saints was built in 1745–50 for J. A. Pusey.^[4]

References

Sources and further reading

• Mills, A.D.; Room, A. (2003). A Dictionary of British Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-852758-6. 
• Page, W.H.; Ditchfield, P.H., eds. (1924). A History of the County of Berkshire, Volume 4. Victoria County History. pp. 471–474. 
• Pevsner, Nikolaus (1966). Berkshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 195–196. 

External links

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• Royal Berkshire History: Pusey House

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