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Seacourt
51.7610° N, -1.2990° E
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Seacourt is a deserted medieval village (DMV) in the civil parish of Wytham, in the Vale of White Horse district, in Oxfordshire, England, near the city of Oxford. The site is now mostly beneath the Oxford Western By-pass (A34), about 0.3 miles (0.48 km) south of the Seacourt/Hinksey Stream crossing.
Historical Timeline
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Grant to Abingdon Abbey
955
Early name record
c. 957
Domesday Book entry
1086
Parish church recorded
by 1200
13th-century redevelopment
13th century
Manor grant to Bereford
1313
Sale to William Wilcotes
1409
Collapse and desertion reported
1439
Dissolution of Studley Priory possessions
1539
Sale of priory possessions
1540
Civil parish changes
1858
Recorded population
1891
Excavations (1937–1939)
1937–1939
Excavations (1958–1959)
1958–1959
Seacourt Farm survives until
1963
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