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Mongewell (first syllable rhymes with ''sponge'') is a village in the civil parish of Crowmarsh, about south of Wallingford in Oxfordshire. Mongewell is on the east bank of the Thames, linked with the west bank at Winterbrook by Winterbrook Bridge. The earthwork Grim's Ditch, now part of The Ridgeway long-distance footpath, passes through the northern part of it and is a scheduled ancient monument. ==History== Grim's Ditch to its north has its main section north of the village, a Scheduled Ancient Monument.〔Grim's Ditch - section from the south of Mongewell Park Lodge to the south of Nuffield Church 〕 In order to provide a level climb up to the first major hill of the long Chiltern Hills range to the east and northeast this has embankments and cuttings, with thousands of tonnes of earth displaced in the Bronze Age in order to facilitate access by foot. Mongewell was a parish mentioned in Domesday Book. The parish church of St John the Baptist dates architecturally to the 12th century, with later repairs and additions.〔Church of St John the Baptist 〕 Mongewell was a strip parish, a thin strip of land extending into the Chiltern Hills〔(Vision of Britain: Boundary map )〕 including part of Stoke Row. The ecclesiastical parish was joined by a civil parish in the 19th century, but in 1932 was split, mostly joining a new civil parish naned Crowmarsh, but a small part was added to Rotherfield Greys parish.〔(Vision of Britain website )〕 Given the location next to the Ridgeway and containing a spring well, the name could be derived from the old English word Mangere as in fish monger, iron monger, war monger etc. meaning a dealer in a specific commodity. So it would be the traders well. 〔(Word Definition )〕 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「Mongewell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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