Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BRUERN

BRUERN, an extra-parochial tract in Chipping-Norton district, Oxford; 5 miles N of Burford. Acres, 3,510. Real property, £1,538. Pop., 51. Houses, 9. A Cistertian Abbey was founded here, in 1147, by Nicholas Basset; and given, in the time of James I., to Sir Anthony Cope. The buildings were changed into a private residence; and were destroyed by fire in last century. Old fish ponds connected with them still exist. The tract is a meet for the Heythrop hounds.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "an extra-parochial tract"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Chipping Norton RegD/PLU       Oxfordshire AncC
Place: Bruern

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