Wolvercote / Woolvercott

"WOOLVERCOTT, a parish in the hundred of Wootton, county Oxford, 3 miles N.W. of Oxford. It is situated on the banks of the Isis, between the rivers Cherwell and Thames, and contains the hamlets of Cutslow, King's Weir, and Godstow, at which latter place was a Benedictine abbey, founded in 1138 by a lady named Editha, and within its walls Fair Rosamond was interred. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Oxford, value £80, in the patronage of Merton College, Oxford. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, has a sepulchral chapel on the N. side, containing a monument to the family of Walter. There is an endowed parochial school for boys and girls. The charities produce about £30 per annum."

"CUTSLOW, a village in the parish of Woolvercott, in the county of Oxford, 3 miles N. of Oxford."

"GODSTOW, a village in the parish of Woolvercott, hundred of Wootton, county Oxford, 3 miles N.E. of Oxford. It is situated on the banks of the Thames, and has some traces of a nunnery founded in the 12th century by Editha, wife of Sir W. Launcelne. It is said that Henry I. here met Rosamond Clifford, surnamed the “Fair,” for the first time. After her death she was interred within the walls of the above establishment, first near the altar, and afterwards in the chapter house, which, still stands, but her bones were disinterred at the Reformation."

"KING'S WEIR, an extra parochial place adjoining the parish of Woolvercott, county Oxford, 2 miles N. of Oxford."

[The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]