Newnham Murren

Human settlement in England

Crowmarsh

District

South Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire

Region

South East

CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townWallingfordPostcode districtOX10Dialling code01491PoliceThames ValleyFire Oxfordshire Ambulance South Central UK Parliament

Henley

List of places: UK; England; Oxfordshire

51°35′46″N 1°06′58″W / 51.596°N 1.116°W / 51.596; -1.116

Newnham Murren is a hamlet in the civil parish of Crowmarsh, in the South Oxfordshire district, in the county of Oxfordshire, England. It is in the Thames Valley, about 0.5 miles (800 m) east of the market town of Wallingford. Newnham Murren is now contiguous with the village of Crowmarsh Gifford. It has a church called St Mary's Church.

History

Newnham Murren is an ancient parish, recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Niweham.^[1] The Church of England parish church of St Mary was built in the 12th century. Newnham Murren was a strip parish: a thin strip of land extending into the Chiltern Hills^[2] including part of Stoke Row. Newnham Murren was made a civil parish in the 19th century, but on 1 April 1932 the civil parish was absorbed into the new civil parish of Crowmarsh.^[3] In 1931 the parish had a population of 249.^[4]

References

^ Salzman, L.F., ed. (1939). A history of the County of Oxford: Volume 1. Victoria County History. London: Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
^ Vision of Britain: Boundary map
^ Vision of Britain website
^ "Population statistics Newnham Murren CP/Ch through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 24 May 2024.