Newton Purcell
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 St Michael and All Angels parish church |
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 Newton Purcell
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| Newton Purcell shown within Oxfordshire | |
| Population | 103 (parish, with Shelswell) (2001 census) |
| OS grid reference | SP6230 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | BUCKINGHAM |
| Postcode district | MK18 |
| Dialling code | 01280 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Oxfordshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
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Newton Purcell is a village in Newton Purcell with Shelswell civil parish in Oxfordshire, 4.5 miles (7 km) southeast of Brackley in neighbouring Northamptonshire.
The course of the Roman road that linked Alchester near Bicester with Lactodurum (now Towcester) runs through the parish just east of the village. The modern road that mostly follows its course is classified as the A4421.
The Domesday Book in 1086 did not mention Newton Purcell. The manor was created in the 12th century as a new tun for the Purcel family, mainly with land from two neighbouring manors: Mixbury and Fringford. These manors had different overlords, and as a result the Purcels had feudal obligations to both. Mixbury was part of the honour of St. Valery, which later became part of the Honour of Wallingford. In 1213 Robert de St. Valery gave the mesne lordship of Mixbury to the Augustinian Osney Abbey, and the Purcels and their successors had to pay the abbey rent until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536. In 1475 the manor was still held by a Thomas Purcel, but it had left the family by 1523. The Purcels had a moated manor house. The house has not survived, but in the 1950s fragments of its moat and a mound where it stood were still visible just east of the village.
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