A History of the County of Oxford: XIX: Wychwood Forest and Environs

Authoritative account of villages on the edge of the Cotswolds.

Until its partial clearance in the 1850s Wychwood forest, set in an undulating landscape on the edge of the Cotswolds, was one of the great royal forests of England, comparable with Savernake, Rockingham, or Whittlewood. This volume explores the history of the forest itself and of a dozen surrounding villages, of which Shipton-under-Wychwood was the centre of a large Anglo-Saxon...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1904356516
• ISBN13: 9781904356516
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Victoria County History
• Length: 429 Pages
• Weight: 4.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.3" x 12.1"