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Cholsey is a village and large civil parish two miles (3 km) south of Wallingford, in South Oxfordshire. In 1974 it was transferred from Berkshire to the county of Oxfordshire, and from Wallingford Rural District to the district of South Oxfordshire. Cholsey's parish boundaries, some long, reach from the edge of Wallingford into the Berkshire Downs. The village green is known as ''The Forty'' and has a substantial and ancient walnut tree. Winterbrook, at the north end of the parish, adjoins Wallingford and fell under the control of Wallingford Town Council in 2015, despite stenuous resistance from its residents. It is the site of Winterbrook Bridge, which carries a by-pass road across the Thames and was the home of late authoress Dame Agatha Christie. ==History== A Bronze Age site has been found beside the River Thames at Whitecross Farm in the northeast of the parish.〔Cromarty, Barclay, Lambrick & Robinson, 2006〕 A pre-Roman road, the Icknield Way, crosses the River Thames at Cholsey. The village itself was originally founded on an island (''Ceol's Isle'') in marshy ground close to the Thames. There is evidence that the House of Wessex Royal family owned land in Cholsey in the 6th and 7th centuries. At this time the town was home to a Saint Wilgyth who was venerated locally in the Middle Ages. A royal nunnery, Cholsey Abbey, was founded in the village in 986 by Queen Dowager Ælfthryth on land given by her son, King Ethelred the Unready. The nunnery is thought to have been destroyed by invading Danes in 1006 when they camped in Cholsey after setting nearby Wallingford ablaze. However, Saxon masonry still survives in the Church of England parish church of St Mary. Most of this flint and stone church was built in the 12th century. In the 13th-century a tithe barn was built in the village. It was, at the time, the largest aisled building in the world, being high, wide and over long.〔Samuel Lysons, ''Magna Britannia'', Berkshire volume, page 264〕 It was demolished in 1815. Fair Mile Hospital, a former lunatic asylum, originally opened near Cholsey in 1870 and closed in 2003. Its Victorian buildings were converted to housing between 2011 and 2014, whilst portions of the site were given over to newly built accommodation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cholsey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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