13 Jan Lordship Title of Circourt ID14325
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CIRCOURT (Suthcote, xii cent.; Sudecote, xiii cent.; Southcote or Circote, xvii cent.) may be identified with the 5 hides in Denchworth which in 947 were granted by Eadred to Wulfric, and were later said to have been conveyed by Wulfric to Abingdon Abbey. It is not mentioned by name among the abbey lands in 1086, but the Domesday Survey states that 7 hides of the manor of Goosey, previously appropriated to the monks' table, were held by Hermer, and according to the Abingdon Chronicle the land granted to that knight was in Denchworth. It seems probable therefore that this was the holding afterwards known as the manor of Circourt, which lay in the south-west corner of Denchworth adjoining Goosey, and was described in 1221 as 7 hides in Circourt and Denchworth. The overlordship continued to belong to the abbey till the Dissolution.
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