Upton, Vale of White Horse
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 St Mary's parish church |
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| Upton shown within Oxfordshire | |
| Population | 421 (2011 Census) |
| OS grid reference | SU5186 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Didcot |
| Postcode district | OX11 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Oxfordshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
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| Website | Upton Village South Oxfordshire |
Upton is a spring line village and civil parish at the foot of the Berkshire Downs, about 2 miles (3 km) south of Didcot in the Vale of the White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 421.
The earliest known record of a manor of Upton is from the reign of Edward the Confessor, when it was held by a Saxon freeman called Brictric. Shortly after the Domesday Book was completed in 1086 Upton became the property of Wynebald de Ballon who in 1092 granted a moiety of the manor to the Cluniac Bermondsey Abbey. The abbey retained this moiety until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century, when it surrendered all its lands to the Crown.
The Domesday Book of 1086 lists Optone as having a "church", but at that time both Upton and Aston Upthorpe were chapelries within the ecclesiastical parish of Blewbury. They remained until the parish of Upton and Aston Upthorpe was formed in 1862.
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