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Oldbury-on-the-Hill is a small village and former civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, ninety-three miles west of London and less than one mile (1.6 km) north of the village of Didmarton.〔(Oldbury on the Hill ) page at abstuk.co.uk, including location map (accessed 13 April 2008)〕 ==History== Oldbury-on-the-Hill has been inhabited since prehistoric times, and Nan Tow's Tump, a round barrow beside the A46 road, is a Bronze Age earthwork and archaeological site.〔(ST8089: Nan Tow's Tump, near to Oldbury on the Hill, Gloucestershire, Great Britain ) at www.geograph.org.uk (accessed 13 April 2008)〕〔(History of the Cotswolds ) at thecotswoldgateway.co.uk (accessed 13 April 2008)〕 The tree-grown barrow is about thirty metres in diameter and three metres high.〔(NEOLITHIC-EBA EXCURSION number 7 ) at stonehenge-avebury.net (accessed 13 April 2008)〕〔O'Neil, Helen, & and Grinsell, Leslie, ''Gloucestershire barrows'' in ''Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society'' (1960)〕 The name refers to Nan Tow, said to have been a local witch who was buried upright in the barrow.〔(The Cotswolds - Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Age Sites ) at digital-brilliance.com (accessed 13 April 2008)〕〔(Nan Tow's Tump - Round Barrow(s) in England in Gloucestershire ) at megalithic.info (The Megalithic Portal) (accessed 13 April 2008)〕〔('The Exeter Riddling Rhymes' ) at ralphhoyte.net (accessed 19 April 2008): "Nan Tow's Tump a barrow at Didmarton, south of Stroud. Legend has it that the barrow is unusually high (9ft) rather than long because it was Nan Tow’s, a local witch’s, house and one of the Dukes of Beaufort had her buried upright as a punishment for her wickedness."〕〔(Country Cottages Online ) at countrycottagesonline.com (accessed 19 April 2008): "Nan Tow a local witch is believed to be buried in a large Bronze Age round barrow on the A46 near Birdlip and Crickley Hills."〕 The parishes of Oldbury-on-the-Hill and Didmarton were together surrounded on all sides by the parish of Hawkesbury and the county boundary with Wiltshire, which is taken to suggest that they were anciently part of Hawkesbury.〔Barrow, Julia, & Brooks, Nicholas, ''St Wulfstan and His World'' (Ashgate Publishing, 2005, ISBN 0-7546-0802-6) (pp. 158-159 ) online at books.google.co.uk (accessed 13 April 2008)〕 The Domesday Book of 1086 calls the village Aldeberie.〔(Place name: Oldbury on the Hill, Gloucestershire Folio: 169r Great Domesday Book ) abstract at nationalarchives.gov.uk (accessed 13 April 2008)〕 Before 1066, it was held by Eadric, Sheriff of Wiltshire, and in 1086 by Ernulf de Hesdin.〔 A document of 972 gives the name as Ealdanbyri, meaning 'old fortification'.〔Mills, A. D., ''Oxford Dictionary of British Place Names'' (Oxford University Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-19-852758-9, ISBN 0-19-852758-6)〕 A possible derivation from the name of St Arilda has also been suggested. In 1342, the tithe of hay and other lesser tithes in Didmarton and Oldbury-on-the-Hill belonging to Badminton church were assessed at £4 13s. 4d.〔 Together with neighbouring Didmarton, the parish was subject to enclosure in 1829.〔''AN ACT for inclosing Lands in the Manors and Parishes of Didmarton and Oldbury-on-the-Hill'' (HMSO, 1829, 10 Geo. IV c. 4, 18pp.)〕〔(Didmarton and Oldbury on the Hill enclosure ) at nationalarchives.gov.uk (accessed 13 April 2008)〕 Benjamin Clarke's ''British Gazetteer'' (1852) says:〔Clarke, Benjamin, ''The British Gazetteer, Political, Commercial, Ecclesiastical, and Historical'', Volume III, L-Z, (London, H. G Collins, 1852) (page 333 ) online at books.google.co.uk (accessed 13 April 2008)〕 According to ''The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland'' (1868):〔Hamilton, N. E. S. (ed.), ''The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland'' (London, J. S. Virtue, 1868)〕 On 25 March 1883, Oldbury-on-the-Hill was incorporated into the civil parish of Didmarton, the two having shared a Rector since 1735.〔''Didmarton: A ramble through history'' (Didmarton Parish Council, 2000)〕 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「Oldbury-on-the-Hill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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