Exlade Street
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| Exlade Street shown within Oxfordshire | |
| OS grid reference | SU658819 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Reading |
| Postcode district | RG8 |
| Dialling code | 01491 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Oxfordshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | |
| Website | http://www.checkendon.org |
Exlade Street is a hamlet in Checkendon civil parish in Oxfordshire about 6 miles (9.7 km) northwest of Reading. The hamlet is about 445 feet (136 m) above sea level in the Chiltern Hills.
The toponym is derived from the Old English personal name Ecgi and slaed, meaning "valley".
Ecgi slaed was originally an ancient British upland farm complex owned by Ecgi and set in the valley today occupied by Exlade Street.
Exlade is also recorded variously as Hekeslad (1241) Egesflade (1278) Eggeslade (1285) Egeslade (1360) Egslade (1366) and Egguslhade(1406),
By the later medieval period, 'street' was often used to describe straggling villages in areas of late woodland clearance. Such places as Exlade Street in the Chilterns and Paley Street east of Reading are instances.
Evidence of the activity of early man in the area was found when a Neolithic flint tranchet axe/adze (5 1/2 inches long)dating from circa 3,000 BC was dug up in the garden of Mulberry Cottage and this is now held in Reading Museum.
In early Medieval time Exlade Street was a dependent settlement of South Stoke and the earliest written record of it dates from 1241.
From 1094 South Stoke and its dependent settlements belonged to Eynsham Abbey. In 1366 the Abbey had 348.5 acres (141 ha) of wood at Exlade Street.
Early references show an Exlade Street resident- John de Eggeslade recorded as a Witness at the Oxford Coroners Court Friday, 8 June 1324 John was obviously a popular Exlade Street name as another John de Eggesalde is also recorded in the Benson Manor rolls in May 1400 standing bail for William Shaldeston - who had been excommunicated by, Henry, Bishop of Lincoln.
In 1323 Walter son and heir of Peter Cock' of Checkendon to Sweyn de Mortele and Alice his wife: Grant of rents from tenements in Exlade, in South Stoke (Eggeslade in Stoke Abbots) (it is speculated that Cocks Hill in Exlade Street may have got its name from the family of Peter Cock who owned land in Exlade Street and Checkendon) and 1362 sees the sale of land in Eggeslade by Henry de Aldrynton' and Elizabeth, his wife.
Dame Isabel Pryour, lady of Shiplake rent from Thomas Hoke, John Crouche, and John Passelewe of Egslade: a tenement called 'le Cokus' and land in Checkendon in 1399. The land Le Cokus may be the current Corkers Farm - which is located just above the Exlade Street
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