Marsh Gibbon
Marsh Gibbon is a village and also a civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England. It is close to the border Oxfordshire about 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Bicester.
The village name comes from the English word 'marsh', describing the typical state of land in the area due to the high water table of the Aylesbury Vale. The affix 'Gibbon' derives from the family name 'Gibwen', the lords of the manor here in the twelfth century. In manorial rolls of 1292 the village was recorded as Mersh Gibwyne, though earlier (in 1086) it was known simply as Merse.
Typical with other villages in proximity to both Oxford, Marsh Gibbon was largely wiped off the map in the English Civil War. A particular skirmish took place here in 1645, the ground works of which still remain to this day at the manor house. The parish church of Marsh Gibbon is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.
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Marsh Gibbon is a village and also a civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England. It is close to the border Oxfordshire about 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Bicester.
The village name comes from the English word 'marsh', describing the typical state of land in the area due to the high water table of the Aylesbury Vale. The affix 'Gibbon' derives from the family name 'Gibwen', the lords of the manor here in the twelfth century. In manorial rolls of 1292 the village was recorded as Mersh Gibwyne, though earlier (in 1086) it was known simply as Merse.
Typical with other villages in proximity to both Oxford, Marsh Gibbon was largely wiped off the map in the English Civil War. A particular skirmish took place here in 1645, the ground works of which still remain to this day at the manor house. The parish church of Marsh Gibbon is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.
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