Easington is a hamlet in the civil parish of Chilton, Buckinghamshire, about 3 miles (5 km) north of the Oxfordshire market town of Thame. The hamlet is between the villages of Chilton and Long Crendon and consists of around 30 houses.
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OS grid reference | SP6814 |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Aylesbury |
Postcode district | HP18 |
Dialling code | 01844 |
Police | Thames Valley |
Fire | Buckinghamshire |
Ambulance | South Central |
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The toponym is derived from Old English and evolved through Hesintone, Essintone and Easyngdon before reaching its present form.[1]
Before the Norman conquest of England Alric, son of Goding, a thegn of Edward the Confessor, held the manors of Chilton and Easington.[1] However, the Domesday Book records that by 1086 the Norman baron Walter Giffard held the two manors.[1] The Domesday Book assessed the manor of Easington at five hides.[1]
From 1387 to 1523 the manor was part of the honour of Gloucester.[1] In 1525 Easington reverted to the Crown, which granted the manor to John Croke of Chilton Manor, in whose family it seems to have stayed until at least 1657.[1]
The will of John Hart, proved in 1665, left a rental income of £3 per annum from the manor of Easington to fund the apprenticeship of one poor boy.[1] In the 1920s the bequest was still being applied "as occasion arises".[1]
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