5 June 1580: John Hart #Jesuit of Eynsham #Oxfordshire arrested on landing at #Dover#otd, taken to Nonsuch to be interviewed by Walsingham. Deported from #England after 4 years in the Tower of #London. Died in #Poland in 1586 (Met Museum)
Dating from 1300, Broughton Castle in Oxfordshire is home to the Fiennes family, Barons Saye and Sele, and has been in branches of that family since 1377. It was a nest of Parliamentarians in the Civil War. On the manor’s land, archaeologists have found and explored the remains of a significant Roman villa that flourished there between the 1st and 4th centuries.
entrance to an old-style country pub "The Black Horse" near Checkendon, Oxfordshire, England. January 2024 This was a pub for wood cutters from the surrounding woods. Real ale from the casks. #checkendon#oxfordshire#pubs#realales
A curious relic of the British Empire in south Oxfordshire, England. The Maharaja of Benares (now Varanasi, in Uttar Pradesh) in Northern India gifted this well to the people of the village of Stoke Row in Oxfordshire around the year 1860, in thanks for the 1830 sinking of a well in the village of Azamgarh, India by an empoyee of the East-India-Company who came from south Oxfordshire. The well is 112 meters deep and remained in use for around 70 years until piped water arrived. January 2024. #oxfordshire#well#england
It's December so welcome to the 2023 #dragonfly#AdventCalendar featuring a different species each day for 24 days. We start with a Southern Migrant Hawker. A fairly recent arrival in the UK; this one was at #CanveyIsland#Essex in July. They like ditches with very little water, even if they dry out in summer. They're huge compared to most other UK species. #wildlife#insects#wildlifephotography
4 men are charged with nicking a gold #toilet from Blenheim Palace, a stately home in #Oxfordshire - Thames Valley Police and the Crown Prosecution Service found something to go on... 🚽
Paradoxically visited Nuffield Place the Oxfordshire home of one of the world's great car magnates - but not by car!
William Morris - later Lord Nuffield - acquired this Arts & Crafts inspired house. Enlarged in a non-sympathetic way it was still a very modest home for one of Britain's richest men.
Route: Overground to Whitechapel, Elizabeth Line to Reading, bus 800 to Henley & 23 to the Nuffield Place bus stop.